[OpenIndiana-discuss] No sound in OpenIndiana

[Garrett Fuller]

Hello everyone,

I am new to the world of OpenIndiana. I've enjoyed it for the most part 
so far, but have had a couple problems. The most frustrating of which is 
the lack of audio output on my ThinkPad W541. There is no playback from 
the laptop speakers or any output through the headphone port, no matter 
what I do or the volume settings.

The only time I have got sound to play is while attempting to diagnose 
the issue using the "audiotest" command.

After running 'audioctl list-devices', I got audiohd#0 and audiohd#1.

While running 'audiotest,' nothing played under audiohd#0 and it took a 
long time for the test to conclude. Sound did play through the headphone 
port using audiohd#1, and the test concluded as it should. However, 
after the test concluded, I still have no audio from anything.

Also, when I get audio working, is there a software package that will 
allow me to playback MP3, WAV, Ogg/Vorbis or AU formats? I looked for 
VLC Media Player and ffmpeg on the package repository but didn't see 
anything. I have been using TiMidity++ to play and convert MIDI files 
(which I can only listen to on another computer), but would like to have 
greater audio playback capabilities if possible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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-Garrett Fuller
(Written using Mozilla Thunderbird on a Lenovo ThinkPad W541 running OpenIndiana)