ATI RV620 Audio

Question

Hello all,
I have just gotten a new computer and I have everything working except for sound. lspci says this:
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series]
Following the Alsa Wiki....
$ ls -l /dev/snd/
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 7 2008-08-12 10:28 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 10 2008-08-12 10:28 controlC1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 6 2008-08-12 10:28 hwC0D0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 9 2008-08-12 10:28 hwC1D0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 5 2008-08-12 10:28 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 4 2008-08-12 10:29 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 8 2008-08-12 10:28 pcmC1D3p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 3 2008-08-12 10:28 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 2 2008-08-12 10:28 timer
and last but not least hwd -s:
Sound(a) : 82801H ICH8 Family HD Audio Controller module: snd-hda-intel
Sound(a) : RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series] module: snd-hda-intel
The levels are unmuted and alsa seems to see everything, but it wont play any sound. Root or a normal user in the audio group cant play them. Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated!
Thank you,
Levi Lentz

Answer 1

when i run alsamixer there's only two bars, master and pcm i think. I'll try again. Did you add any option to modprobe.conf or to alsa conf files?
some other commnads to compare:
[diaz@portatil ~]$ sudo lspci -s 00:1b.0 -vn
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:293e (rev 03)
        Subsystem: 1043:1878
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
        Memory at fdef8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
        Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?>
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
[diaz@portatil ~]$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
Codec: Realtek ID 663                                         
Codec: Motorola Si305
EDIT:
IT WORKS
changed to init 1, then reinstalled the alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-utils, rebooted and then the stuff appears in alsamixer and it freaking works.
Last edited by Diaz (2008-08-21 02:08:05)