no sound on ASUS EB1503

[boulderite]

Hello -

I just installed PCLOS KDE 2012.12 on my ASUS Eeebox EB1503.  No sound yet (even with the Master and PCM sliders on KMix set to the max).

After I installed, I ran Synaptic, so my system should be completely up to date.

Here's what I've tried so far.  From Control Center > Hardware > Sound Configuration, I get the message: "Here you can select an alternative driver (either OSS or ALSA) for your sound card (NVIDIA Corporation|HDMI Audio stub). Your card currently use the ALSA "snd_hda_intel" driver (default driver for your card is "snd_hda_intel") ".

The default driver is 'Intel HDA Driver (snd_hda_intel [ALSA])'.

I've tried getting sound with PulseAudio enabled and disabled, but neither works.  I also already tried running alsaconf (as root) with no success.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

boulderite

[Just17]

You have Pulse Audio installed .......  is it enabled and working correctly?

Do you have  pavucontrol   installed from the repository?

If not, install it, and launch PulseAudio Volume Control.

If you get an error please report the error in full.

If no error, you can turn off the HDMI sound card on the config tab which will force the use of the onboard sound.

If you wish to use the HDMI then on the playback tab select the output device for each application you launch to pay sound.

[boulderite]

Thanks ...  Looks like I'm making progress, because I now at least hear the system notifications.

You have Pulse Audio installed .......  is it enabled and working correctly?

Do you have  pavucontrol   installed from the repository?

If not, install it, and launch PulseAudio Volume Control.

If you get an error please report the error in full.

If no error, you can turn off the HDMI sound card on the config tab which will force the use of the onboard sound.

If you wish to use the HDMI then on the playback tab select the output device for each application you launch to pay sound.

I installed pavucontrol, which I think also installed PulseAudio as a dependency.  Somehow I thought that PulseAudio was already installed.

This action seems to have enabled the system notifications, but not other audio (e.g. audio from the browser).

But when I click on PulseAudio Volume Control in the Sound menu, I get 'Connection failed: Connection refused.'  Do I need to run this as root?  If so, what's the command-line way to run this?

I should have mentioned this, but my speakers are integrated into my monitor, which is hooked up by HDMI.  I don't really care if I use HDMI sound or the onboard sound, I'm just looking for the simplest solution here.

boulderite

[Just17]

If you want sound through your monitor then you want to use the HDMI I guess.

Go to Synaptic, Reload, Mark ALL Updates and Apply, then mark   task-pulseaudio  for installation, and Apply anything it wishes to install.

Immediately go to PCC - Hardware - Sound  and Enable PulseAudio, and reboot.

After rebooting try launching PulseAudio Volume Control.

I would not be surprised if it failed to connect, because the packages have not been installed in the correct order and enabled etc.

If it fails to connect, please post back, with the exact error message.

The fix for it should be in one of these links

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,105480.0.html

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,108896.0.html


PulseAudio - when correctly running - will give you complete control over where the sound from each application goes .....  from a reasonable GUI interface ......  so it is worth your time to get it working properly.

[boulderite]

Thanks - problem solved.  I'm now getting sound delivered to my monitor speakers through the HDMI output on the EB1503.  I did a fresh install of PCLOS 2012.12, since I think earlier I had screwed up pulseaudio by installing pavucontrol before actually installing pulseaudio.  (Isn't Synaptic supposed to prevent that kind of thing?) I then installed pulseaudio and pavucontrol in that order.  To get HDMI sound, I had to disable the onboard sound through pavucontrol (going to Configuration, then setting the Profile for 'Built-in Audio' to Off).  I'm getting decent sound through the browser as well as other applications.  The onboard sound apparently just provides the output to the headphone jack.

boulderite

[Just17]

Glad you have it sorted.

You don't have to turn off the sound card .....  you can set the sound card as the fallback device on the Output Devices tab of PulseAudio Vol Control.