On Tue, 15 May 2007, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:58, Eben King wrote:
>> I got up today, and I have no sound. Not just quiet, none at all. The cat
>> could have knocked a plug out I guess, but it worked when I went to bed
>> (TTBOMK) and the door to the computer room was shut all night. (The cat
>> can't open the door, and even if she magically could, she wouldn't shut it
>> again.) What I should hear is a 4.1 speaker system hooked up to a
>> Soundblaster Live!. Things I've tried:
>>
>> The speakers have power, since the "power" light illuminates.
>>
>> The speakers' front and rear stereo connectors are plugged into the card.
>>
>> The relevant modules are loaded, since (IIRC) the mixer won't operate
>> without them.
>>
>> The Master and PCM channels are unmuted, and their levels are non-zero.
>>
>> The speakers' volume knob is midway up.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
> Unfortunately power does not mean it works. An easy test would be to verify
> each part. Connect speakers to another source. Connect headphones to the
> sound card.
I put headphones on SPKR OUT of the soud card, and the level is extremely
low. As in, I can hear nothing but Ss (and presumably Zs). Lemme try a
power cycle...
<init 0>
<PSU off>
<wait>
<PSU on>
<boot>
Nope, same deal. Dead preamp in the sound card? If so, any suggestions for
PCIe sound cards with lots o' I/O? (Breakout box not necessary.)
> It's not very likely that the computer got reconfigured while you slept,
> unless you got an automatic update service running.
No, only a backup, and it only touches /dev/hd[ab].
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