[Clug-tech] hp pavilion n3438 laptop sound not working. REPLY TO GUSTIN #1

[Dan Mueller]

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From: clug-tech-bounces at clug.ca [mailto:clug-tech-bounces at clug.ca] On Behalf
Of Gustin Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:36 AM
To: CLUG Tech
Subject: Re: [Clug-tech] hp pavilion n3438 laptop sound not working

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Dan Mueller wrote:
> I have a hp pavilion n3438 laptop that is running debian 5.0 and I do
> not have sound on it. First something came up saying something about
> gstreamer so I went through synaptic, added a couple of things and now
> it says that I should just delete my speaker icon as I don't have sound
> set up. Can you please walk me through what I must do?? I looked on
> google and as best as I can tell its running a legacy card but am unsure
> if im right. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
First it would help to know what device this is.  From a terminal run
the following:
lspci |grep -i audio

Next we need to find out if any drivers have been loaded:
lsmod |grep snd

If there are drivers loaded, just run alsamixer from the command line to
see if the drivers are correct (if you can see volume levels chances are
the drivers are correct and something else is blocking the sound device).


HEY GUSTIN. PLEASE SEE BELOW AS TO WHAT CAME OUT. AS FOR RUNNING ALSA
MIXER.... NOT A CLUE AS TO HOW I DO THAT.

host-cal-019:/home/dan# lspci | grep -i audio 
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI
Audio Accelerator 
host-cal-019:/home/dan# lsmod | grep snd 
snd_maestro3           15908  0 
snd_ac97_codec         88228  1 snd_maestro3 
ac97_bus                1664  1 snd_ac97_codec 
snd_pcm_oss            32544  0 
snd_mixer_oss          12288  1 snd_pcm_oss 
snd_pcm                60680  3 snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss 
snd_page_alloc          7816  1 snd_pcm 
snd_seq_dummy           2692  0 
snd_seq_oss            24832  0 
firmware_class          6656  2 snd_maestro3,pcmcia 
snd_seq_midi            5664  0 
snd_rawmidi            18592  1 snd_seq_midi 
snd_seq_midi_event      6528  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi 
snd_seq                40784  6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event 
snd_timer              17668  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq 
snd_seq_device          6412  5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq 
snd                    44964  10
snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,sn
d_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device 
soundcore               6112  1 snd 
host-cal-019:/home/dan#


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