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</style></head><body><div>Does alsamixer show you any controls for the pci sound card?</div><div><br></div><div>It had happen to me on occasion it doesn't detect properly if the output should be muted or not, so you can play with the controls there.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 17:07 -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I know this group has some audiophiles who are well versed in Linux's <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">sound components.<br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I bought one of the new N100 mini PCs to run various stuff on, and the plan </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">is to replace the Raspberry Pi4 with something more powerful, yet close in </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">power consumption to the Pi.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The N100 PC runs Xubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, and will be a headless system.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">It has a 3.5mm, and I connected speakers to it.<br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">When I do:</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">$ aplay foo.wav<br>Playing WAVE 'foo.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">It pretends to play the wave file, but no sound comes out from the speakers.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">But aplay says there are no soundcards ...<br></div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">$ aplay -l<br>aplay: device_list:277: no soundcards found...</div><br><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">According to alsa-info, the machine is:</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Manufacturer: Firebat_Computer<br>Product Name: T8_Plus<br>Firmware Version: 5.26<br>System SKU: T8P-F<br></div></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">And<br></div><br clear="all"></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA<br>!!-----------------------------<br><br> 0 [PCH]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH<br> HDA Intel PCH at 0x6001110000 irq 136<br> 1 [HID]: USB-Audio - USB Audio and HID<br> CSCTEK USB Audio and HID at usb-0000:00:14.0-6, full speed<br><br><br>!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system<br>!!--------------------------------------<br><br>00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-N PCH High Definition Audio Controller [8086:54c8]<br> DeviceName: Onboard - Sound<br><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">So there is a sound card.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">But why is aplay not seeing it?<br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Any help with this is really appreciated ... <br></div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Khalid M. Baheyeldin</div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org</a><br></div><div>with the subject "unsubscribe", or email<br></div><div><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org</a> to contact a human being.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span></span></div></body></html>