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

[Dan Mueller]

WHERE AM I BEST TO START AT??




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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 3:46 PM
To: CLUG Tech
Subject: Re: [Clug-tech] hp pavilion n3438 laptop sound not working. REPLY
TO GUSTIN #1

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Dan Mueller wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> 
> 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.
> 
Just type alsamixer into a terminal.

> host-cal-019:/home/dan# lspci | grep -i audio 
> 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI

This device has been around for a while and should be well supported.

> 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 
<snip>

The rest of that output looks good.  It appears that the sound card is
detected and the correct drivers have been loaded.  It is probably a
configuration problem with whatever applet
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