[AuckLUG] Sound problem

[Kent Wilkinson]

Hi all, I have a problem with my sound, it's not working :-(
I was playing around with the sound settings in gxine and have lost all
sound period! The reason I was playing around with the sound settings is
that I was getting all the background sound from xine but not the
voices, but I did get voices in mplayer. It should be noted that gxine
worked fine before.

My setup is as follows:

nForce4 motherboard, with on board ac97 sound which is output via
toslink to my home theatre, this has worked great in the past. I have
tried changing from the optical connection to the analog front speaker
output on the back of the motherboard still no sound, I have tried
setting all options with alsamixer, up down on off etc... still no joy.I
have tried all of the 3 toslink and several different analog inputs on
my home theatre, which still plays fine from dvd via toslink so I don't
think it is the home theatre. I still get light from the optical cable
from the PC as well.

Is my sound card dead ???

My OS is Gentoo amd64 kernel version 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 using alsa from
the kernel source.

Any advice welcome

Regards

Kent