No sound on Toshiba A60 satellite pro laptop

[razzage]

alsaconf detects the onboard soundcard:

atiixp ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio controller

says the soundcard is configured, runs update modules etc everything seems to be going well until:

Running update-modules...
Loading driver...
Setting up ALSA...done.
Setting default volumes...
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
Saving the mixer setup used for this in /var/lib/alsa/asound.state.
/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1163: No soundcards found...


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Now ALSA is ready to use.
For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

Have a lot of fun!

is there any additional information you need to be able to help? lsmod output:

snd_atiixp 21640 0
snd_ac97_codec 69988 1 snd_atiixp
snd_pcm_oss 55080 0
snd_mixer_oss 20096 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 98728 2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25732 1 snd_pcm
snd 57156 6 snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_os s,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10272 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 11752 2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm

lspci:

0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller

Any help is very much appreciated, thanks.

[mrrangerman43]

razzage

Hi, have you gone into alsamixer and set your volume? by default the volume is set at zero. Yes there is some other info you should post also, ( to help others know better how to help you).

What distro are you using?
What WM are you using? KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox.

[razzage]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

Ok, some things you should know:

I am running KDE 3.5 on Debian testing. When KDE initializes I get a prompt saying:

Sound server informational message:

Error while initializing the sound driver:

device dev/dsp can't be opened (no such device)

The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

alsamixer gives the following output when I try to run it:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: no such device.

I've been searching frantically and asking around, any help is really appreciated.

[razzage]

Anyone? :(

[deathadder]

Is your user in the audio group?
adder@Marcus:~$ groups
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If your not look at usermod as root.
usermod [options] login
-g, --gid GROUP force use GROUP as new initial login group
-G, --groups GROUPS list of supplementary GROUPS

[razzage]

Thanks for the reply, yeah my user is part of:

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