Sound not working,,,sorta

[Hextejas]

I just installed KDE full on a new Acer  Aspire one and I cannot get the sound to work for some.
When I went to a FM radio station like 1.fm, those songs play fine.
But videos from youtube have no sound.
The speaker icon will display "Volume at 0%" and pushing the volume keys has no effect.
Please tell me what to do.

Thanks

[Old-Polack]

I just installed KDE full on a new Acer  Aspire one and I cannot get the sound to work for some.
When I went to a FM radio station like 1.fm, those songs play fine.
But videos from youtube have no sound.
The speaker icon will display "Volume at 0%" and pushing the volume keys has no effect.
Please tell me what to do.

Thanks

Use your mouse to move the slider up, until you get your volume keys configured.

[Hextejas]

The sliders are all the way to the top and nada.

[luikki]

right click the volume icon and open mixer...
play with the options available....

[Hextejas]

right click the volume icon and open mixer...
play with the options available....

When I rt click on the speaker then left click on Kmixer, nothing happens. I only have 2 other options restore and I think quit.
Something weird going on.
I have been reding all the posts regarding sound issues and one said to enable pulse audio.
After I did that it told me to restart so I tried to do it and the screen went black with a blinking cursor in the upper left.
I waited 10 mintes then powered off.
Something is amiss.

[luikki]

reboot and see if you get to a desktop...
then, in a terminal, as root run alsaconf.

[Hextejas]

reboot and see if you get to a desktop...
then, in a terminal, as root run alsaconf.

I rebooted from the Live CD and when  I ran alsaconf I got:
No supported PnP or PCI card found.

That don't sound good.

[Just17]

Post as much info as you can get on the sound hardware

[Hextejas]

Post as much info as you can get on the sound hardware

In response to cat /proc/asound/cards was

0 [ Generic            ] HDA-Intel             HD-Audio Generic.    Irq 45
1 [ Generic.           ]:                                                          Irq 46

That's pretty much all I know.

It seems like the sound from videos won't work
I tried playing a music CD with Tangerine ? Or . It looked like an orange slice.
I could not get it to play but I think it might be my lack of knowledge. I was getting an error as: You can only play local files.
The CD is on a USB port.
I think I stated that FM type music through Firefox played fine but it was using it's own player.

Good luck, this is well beyond me.

[Just17]

It seems you have two audio devices one of which has no name?

You have an internal sound 'card' on the motherboard, and also a HDMI connection which would have its own sound 'card'?

[luikki]

I rebooted from the Live CD and when  I ran alsaconf I got:
No supported PnP or PCI card found.

i've sound working correctly (kde full 4.8.3) and because of this thread just found that doing alsaconf it reports No supported PnP or PCI card found .



cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xfe020000 irq 20

00:0e.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev a2)



looks like there is a bug somewhere...

[Hextejas]

It seems you have two audio devices one of which has no name?

You have an internal sound 'card' on the motherboard, and also a HDMI connection which would have its own sound 'card'?

I am going to try and disable the HDMI sound card since I don't use it. Now if I only knew how to do it.
How do I disable it, is it in BIOS ? That I know how to do.

I hope I can get this working soon because it's my wifes and she will be back on Friday.
I did a Live CD download of U***tu and it's ugly and seems to be a lot slower.
Would either of the other versions here fix this or would they have the same issue ?

thanks again

[Just17]

Yes the idea would be to either prioritise the sound cards or to disable the one not being used.

That is a great benefit of PulseAudio when you have it working correctly .....  it provides a graphical means of controlling the sound streams and to what device (sound card) they go.

It is so long since I used anything other than PA to do this, I had best not guess.

Maybe someone will post the file to be edited to prioritise the cards (senior moment as I cannot recall it )

[bnc75ohm]

Hextejas - A while back I installed PCLOS on my nephew's Acer Aspire One and I had exactly the same problem  - sound everywhere except on some web video like youtube. 

After a solid week of searching, I arrived at the solution.  Create  a .asoundrc file in home dir containing the following:

pcm.!default {
type hw
card 1
}

ctl.!default {
type hw
card 1
}


I wish I could remember more on how I arrived at this solution but it was a while ago and I don't have any more details.  I do remember searching the term "asoundrc" (without quotes) provided lots of useful information. 

I hope this helps.

[joseph_1802]

I don't know if this could help you or not, but I've had some problems with my sound card in the past (actually, every time I installed a new kernel). Once I recall getting sound perfectly from the headphones port but not from the speakers.
My solution: run alsaconf. Every time I'd do it it would say it couldn't detect the sound card, so I'd just use any of the legacy sound card/chips suggested (I tried a couple and they all worked on my laptop). Anyways, once that was done, I'd reboot and get sound working properly again.
Hope it helps!