soundcard driver present but no sound

**caminoix** · 04-01-2005

i have knoppix 3.8 (so far, at least). when booting, there's a message it found my soundcard driver but then there is no sound. what should i do?

**sdousley** · 04-01-2005

have you been into alsamixer and checked that all the sound levels are turned up? Open up a console and type

Code:

alsamixer

start some music playing and play around with the levels.

**caminoix** · 04-02-2005

i have tried typing alsamixer from user, from root, tried searching for such a file, and looked through the whole menu but i can't find it anywhere

**sdousley** · 04-02-2005

Can you post what the make/model of the sound card is, and also the output of the command

Code:

lsmod

as root.

**caminoix** · 04-02-2005

thank you very much for help

actually i think i'm going to switch to kanotix. not only because it had sound automatically.

i have had some problems installing knoppix. it said it can't write a couple of files and now it's working slightly weird. especially the polish support which i do need 'cause i have to write things somehow...

i'll see how i can manage with kanotix and hope i won't have to trouble you again.

thank you once again

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