OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Multimedia
[Uniaud] No sound even if audio card is recognized
xynixme:
Almost no sound, this time (eCS 1.2, SoundMax, desktop). The hardware should be fine. With W7 the sound is fine. A <Alt-F1>restore didn't help. Cold and warm reboots don't help. The master volume (and all (?) other ones) seems to be 100%, but it sounds like far less than 10%. It's almost mute. AFAICT it happened quite suddenly, without an obvious reason. There was no intentional change of any multimedia component. What's probably wrong?
Ian Manners:
What do the lines starting with PARMSTRING= under the various headings in x:\mmos2\mmpm2.ini say?
ie,
PARMSTRING=BALANCE=50,VOL=80,INPUT=LINE,OUTPUT=SPEAKER
PARMSTRING=BALANCE=50,VOL=80,INPUT=LINE,GAIN=70,OUTPUT=SPEAKER
etc
ensure the VOL= is set to something rational, especially if you have GAIN.
PS, boot in maintence mode or from another source to make changes to mmpm2.ini
xynixme:
At the moment the system is mute, so no system sounds at all (monitor volume 100%, the "expected" bad result was being able to hear something). I'll even consider a reinstall, albeit that's hard without a working CD drive.
The setting below is the only string which matched the search string "VOL=".
[ICHAMPMIX01]
VERSIONNUMBER=3.1.8
PRODUCTINFO=SoundMax Integrated Digital Wave Audio
MCDDRIVER=AMPMXMCD
VSDDRIVER=AUDIOIF
PDDNAME=ADISND1$
MCDTABLE=MDM
RESOURCENAME=ICHAmpMixer01
DEVICEFLAG=2
DEVICETYPE=9
SHARETYPE=3
RESOURCEUNITS=2
RESOURCECLASSES=2,1,1
VALIDCOMBINATIONS=1,2,2,1
CONNECTORS=5,4,,0,9,,0,8,,0,10,,0,7,,0
PARMSTRING=BALANCE=50,VOL=100,INPUT=MIC,GAIN=50,OUTPUT=SPEAKER
xynixme:
"Solved": last time W7 still produced normal sounds, but now it doesn't anymore. Probably a hardware problem.
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