No sound on new Porteus installation

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No sound on new Porteus installation

Post#1 by rcrsf » 28 Apr 2015, 21:33

I just recently installed Porteus on a USB stick, and everything works great except for no sound. There's not even a volume level icon (even though the "hidden" option for that icon is UNchecked).

I'm on a Dell Inspiron 15R (5537) bought in 2013. When I boot *buntu, there is sound, so I know the card is okay.

Here's possible relevant output of "aplay --list-devices":

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3223 Analog [ALC3223 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
guest@porteus:~$

Thanks for any help!

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Re: No sound on new Porteus installation

Post#2 by francois » 29 Apr 2015, 00:58

Prendre son temps, profiter de celui qui passe.

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Re: No sound on new Porteus installation

Post#3 by rcrsf » 29 Apr 2015, 15:55

Thanks for that link. I had some trouble following the conversion, but here's all I did:

1) Switched to root user
2) Used a text editor to create "/etc/asound.conf" and put these two lines in it:
defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.ctl.card 1
3) Then restarted my computer.

I now have sound. No idea if I have both those cards, but something worked.

As a bonus, I can now also view YouTube. Without sound, the videos would fail after 1 second. I didn't know the two issues were related.

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Re: No sound on new Porteus installation

Post#4 by francois » 30 Apr 2015, 00:48

This brokenman solution. Maybe he will explain the rationale. If you find it we will gladly read you. :)
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Re: No sound on new Porteus installation

Post#5 by brokenman » 30 Apr 2015, 13:24

Some systems have two sound options. This config file puts the pcm card as the first option for alsa. To make it permanent copy the file into the rootcopy folder.

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cp -a --parents /etc/asound.conf /nmt/sdaxY/porteus/rootcopy
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