Help with the sound on Linux Mint please.....

candtalan

Sound: Before you try other things now, there is some information that might be extremely useful to know about your sound chip type. If you use a terminal (not sure how mint does that, but it is simple) and type into the terminal lspci (that is all lower case LSPCI) and hit return. You should see a small screen full of types of chips in your PC. This is information that the chips themselves have 'offered' when advertising their existence. One will almost certainly be a sound chip. For example in my PC, I see stuff which includes: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01), Which shows the audio sound chip type. This is the information to use when asking about what and how something will run. Even if the chip type is going to give you a problem, at least you can ask the exact question. If push comes to shove, pretty well any cheapo PCI sound card would almost certainly be ok. It is the sort of thing that is pulled out of old PCs before disposal, and gathers dust on someone's shelf. Worth asking your techie friends and relatives ?

HO87

candtalan wrote: »

Sound: Before you try other things now, there is some information that might be extremely useful to know about your sound chip type. If you use a terminal (not sure how mint does that, but it is simple) and type into the terminal........

Left click on "Menu", under Applications, left click on Terminal.

nu1isit?

candtalan wrote: »

Sound: Before you try other things now, there is some information that might be extremely useful to know about your sound chip type. If you use a terminal (not sure how mint does that, but it is simple) and type into the terminal lspci (that is all lower case LSPCI) and hit return. You should see a small screen full of types of chips in your PC. This is information that the chips themselves have 'offered' when advertising their existence. One will almost certainly be a sound chip. For example in my PC, I see stuff which includes: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01), Which shows the audio sound chip type. This is the information to use when asking about what and how something will run. Even if the chip type is going to give you a problem, at least you can ask the exact question. If push comes to shove, pretty well any cheapo PCI sound card would almost certainly be ok. It is the sort of thing that is pulled out of old PCs before disposal, and gathers dust on someone's shelf. Worth asking your techie friends and relatives ?

Thanks very much...Unfortunately I don't have any techie friends, or relatives_pale_. Although, it would be nice to at times like this :laugh:. Plenty of them can help with cars, household maintenance etc. :dance:
If all of the suggestions don't work, I think I'll have to keep an eye out at car boots etc., if no success there, it's the ebay special .

Thanks.

nu1isit?

Hello...I thought I'd better update you on how I was getting on with it....I managed to get another sound card ....After much unplugging, plugging in, playing with things, and swearing :rotfl:, I got it to work; sort off. Here's the thing, it only works if you run it from the headphone socket, and not the external speaker socket you would normally use as an output on your pc:think: .
I'm not complaining as I now have sound, but it's not at full capacity (like I've had with a previous pc). I can live with this for now, but another problem has popped up. When I'm viewing vids on the net, and I try to get them to go 'full screen', I get this weird animation with the text, the flash plug in has crashed appears:eek:....
I'm a newbie to Linux, I quite like it for different things, but I wish it would play nice :rotfl::D:rotfl:.

Any help would be greatfully appreciated :beer:.

poppy10_2

nu1isit? wrote: »

When I'm viewing vids on the net, and I try to get them to go 'full screen', I get this weird animation with the text, the flash plug in has crashed appears:eek:.....

Upgrade your flash player here:
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/
(Choose Linux, and .apt)

candtalan

nu1isit? wrote: »

I got it to work; sort off. Here's the thing, it only works if you run it from the headphone socket, and not the external speaker socket

Well done. The selection about which output is connected is usually configured in the sound preferences settings you looked at earlier. With a new card you will see different options and choices.

but it's not at full capacity (like I've had with a previous pc)

Again this is likely to be sound settings. There may be a couple of places, or three, to adjust the level. The input to the card, the card output volume, and maybe there is a choice of amplification too. It is also possible that the PC card socket you are using (earphone) is not ideal for what the TV audio in is expecting, although I don't think it is a likely problem. But if the sound settings for the PC and sound card offer different choices of output, then line out might be worth looking at. But I would expect earphone and line out to be in use ok at the same time anyway.

nu1isit?

candtalan wrote: »

Well done. The selection about which output is connected is usually configured in the sound preferences settings you looked at earlier. With a new card you will see different options and choices. Again this is likely to be sound settings. There may be a couple of places, or three, to adjust the level. The input to the card, the card output volume, and maybe there is a choice of amplification too. It is also possible that the PC card socket you are using (earphone) is not ideal for what the TV audio in is expecting, although I don't think it is a likely problem. But if the sound settings for the PC and sound card offer different choices of output, then line out might be worth looking at. But I would expect earphone and line out to be in use ok at the same time anyway.

Thanks candtalan...I tried all the settings etc. and this is the only way I could get it to work :think:...I've done a bit of research, and it seems I'm not the only one who's had this problem. There's a few, and one other I stumbled across who did the same as me (through the headphone socket from the card).
I used one of the output sliders, but as soon as I tweaked the one on the desktop, it knocked the other 'down' again. Hence, the non to impressive sound :eek:...
I'll try updating the flash plug in as you've suggested...I'm hoping it works...

Thanks again - you may hear from me again tomorrow :rotfl:.

nu1isit?

Just letting everyone know I swapped to Ubuntu (Linux) and everything works as it should. :beer:

Thanks for everyones help anyway.:T

candtalan

nu1isit? wrote: »

Just letting everyone know I swapped to Ubuntu (Linux) and everything works as it should. :beer:

Thanks for everyones help anyway.:T

Good to know, well done. And thank you for posting back.

ts_aly2000

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