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Rosko

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Registered: 2016-06-12

Posts: 17

[semi-solved] No sound when running Live CD

Also no multimedia programs, is that by design?

While testing Q4OS I tried playing a Youtube video, get the video ok but there is no sound.

The speaker icon is enabled, can adjust the slide control from 0% Volume to 100% and Mute is off. When I open KMix the 'Current mixer:' is HD-Audio Generic and I only have the 'Switches' tab. If I open the drop down menu I get a second instance of 'HD-Audio Generic' and when I choose that I get all 3 tabs (Output, Input & Switches) to work with. In 'Output' - Master, Front, Surround, Center & LFE are all enabled (green light is on) and the slide controls all move but nothing happens when I move them. Beyond that I don't know what to try.

System Audio Specs:

00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kabini HDMI/DP Audio
   Subsystem: Acer Inc [ALI] Device 0800
   Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0,IRQ 83
   Memory at fea64000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
   Capabilities: <access denied>
   Kernel driver in use: snd_hda intel

00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 156b
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00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller (rev 02)
   Subsystem:Acer Inc [ALI] Device 0800
   Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32,IRQ 16
   Memory at fea60000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
   Capabilities: <access denied>
   Kernel driver in use: snd_hda intel

00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 11)

Last edited by Rosko (2016-06-21 15:34)

Rademes

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2015-12-13

Posts: 637

Re: [semi-solved] No sound when running Live CD

Try to install pulseaudio and adjust volumes using pavucontrol.

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pavucontrol

Also read this: http://www.q4os.org/dqa011.html#install.3

Also no multimedia programs, is that by design?

Q4OS Developers try to make Live system as small as possible. You can install VLC Media Player using Q4OS Software Centre.
Update: Here is a forum topic about your problem: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-9 … art-0.html
As I figured out, many people have problems with [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller, so you can find answer simply googling.

Last edited by Rademes (2016-06-21 07:57)

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Rosko

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Registered: 2016-06-12

Posts: 17

Re: [semi-solved] No sound when running Live CD

Thanks for trying Rademes, had no success with any of those suggestions.

I ended up skipping the Live CD trial and just installing it in a Virtual Machine to continue testing, once I did that the sound was working out of the box so it's all good now.

mx-zw

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Registered: 2016-07-10

Posts: 22

Re: [semi-solved] No sound when running Live CD

Rosko, I'm experiencing the same problems and trying the same path to solving, i.e. putting it in a Virtual Machine
Unfortunately without success so far...

Would you be so kind and tell me

1. what VM (VMware?) do you use

2. which version (1.4.11 64bit?) did you install?

3. which profile (pure / basic / desktop) did you select while installing?

Regards
Max

Rosko

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Registered: 2016-06-12

Posts: 17

Re: [semi-solved] No sound when running Live CD

Hi Max

1) Oracle Virtual Box
2) 1.4.11 64bit
3) I honestly don't remember (and that computer is in for repair so I don't have access to it for a while) but my guess is I went with basic or desktop, definitely not pure.

Hope this was helpful.

mx-zw

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Registered: 2016-07-10

Posts: 22

Re: [semi-solved] No sound when running Live CD

Hi Rosko,
Many thanks for the speedy reply. It helped in some way as I have to stick to VMware... Many thanks anyway
Regards Max