Debian testing guest has no sound

[zelhar]

Hello

I am running Debian testing gues OS with guest addition installed on ubuntu host. Everything works fine except there is no sound no matter what combination of audio device/controller I try.

[Perryg]

Are you talking about squeeze?

[zelhar]

that's right Debian squeeze.

[Sasquatch]

Do other VMs you have produce any sound? What does /proc/asound/cards and /proc/asound/devices say in the Guest?

[zelhar]

Do other VMs you have produce any sound? What does /proc/asound/cards and /proc/asound/devices say in the Guest?

I have sound working on windows 7 and windows xp guests.

this is what I have in /proc/asound/cards:

0 [pcsp ]: PC-Speaker - pcsp
Internal PC-Speaker at port 0x61
1 [I82801AAICH ]: ICH - Intel 82801AA-ICH
Intel 82801AA-ICH with STAC9700,83,84 at irq 21

and /proc/asound/devices:

0 [pcsp ]: PC-Speaker - pcsp
Internal PC-Speaker at port 0x61
1 [I82801AAICH ]: ICH - Intel 82801AA-ICH
Intel 82801AA-ICH with STAC9700,83,84 at irq 21

[Sasquatch]

Well, that means your sound card is detected and loaded. Now, open alsamixer and check if all volume levels are at the top and not muted.

[Perryg]

It looks to me like it is set to the PC speaker meaning that (1) either it does not see his audio card, or (2) he has it setup wrong.
My Squeeze does have sound (see my Cards file below), but there are no system sounds on my copy. Other audio files do work though.
You might want to run an lspci to make sure that the controller is actually loaded.

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0 [I82801AAICH    ]: ICH - Intel 82801AA-ICH
                      Intel 82801AA-ICH with STAC9700,83,84 at irq 9

[Sasquatch]

I installed Debian on a VM, only one sound card detected and it works just fine. However, in Alsamixer, the master volume was on mute (MM), so no sound would play from the speakers. Hit M when the volume control is selected and you unmute it. To test it, run the following command:

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speaker-test -c 2 -t wav -l 1

If you get no sound, you might have to select a device. Use the -d switch for that. Devices can be listed with:

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aplay -l

[zelhar]

I made a clean install of the default, gnome gui, and sound is working fine. What's not working is network connection- it was destroyed after I had installed guest editions. But anyway that's a subject to a different post.

[jameslittle]

I had the exactly the same issue, but it turned out the the PCM volume was all the way down and muted.

[shadesoflight]

I found that having both pulse audio and alsa installed caused my problem. Selecting settings on my windows XP guest OS in virtual box, then on the audio tab choosing the alsa driver -- this gave me sound.

[Sasquatch]

I found that having both pulse audio and alsa installed caused my problem. Selecting settings on my windows XP guest OS in virtual box, then on the audio tab choosing the alsa driver -- this gave me sound.

Your reply is completely off-topic. This is Linux Guests, you have a Windows Guest. Completely unrelated to the issue discussed here.

The topic is also pretty old (October 2010), so to avoid further kicking of old topics, I'm going to lock this one.