trouble initializing audio device

[golinux]

New Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3 motherboard running previously installed (refracta) wheezy/xfce.   Sound worked fine on old board (ASUS P4P800 SE).  Audio is onboard Intel PCH ALC892.  Using ALSA.  pulseaudio is not installed (trying to avoid all things Poettering). On new board, sound works on VLC, SMPlayer, Deadbeef but fails on Avidemux (with title error), Totem and anything online in either Iceweasel or Chrome.  I tried every audio option in Avidemux but nothing worked.  I realize this is a bigger problem than Avidemux but thought I'd start here because it is the most important to have working.

The alsamixer is not behaving as expected - what controls are missing and how do I get them integrated?.  I have to F6 to choose the correct card.



Have been reading and poking around in my system for many days but not made much progress.  I can post the output of alsa-info.sh if needed.

Any suggestions?  Thanks!

[Jan Gruuthuse]

This is really beyond the scope of using avidemux. I have only experience using Ubuntu, not Debian wheezy. Warning: don't install these if you don't know what you're doing!
Most likely you need to install a newer driver from realtek for ALC892 support? Check with debian forum supporting your motherboard. I have on Ubuntu this package installed from realtek: "Linux driver (3.0) Rt-Linux-HDaudio-5.18"

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dpkg -l alsa*

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Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
un  alsa           <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  alsa-base      1.0.25+dfsg- all          ALSA driver configuration files
un  alsa-oss       <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  alsa-utils     1.0.27.2-1ub amd64        Utilities for configuring and usi

[golinux]

Thanks for responding.  Just in case anyone else runs into this problem, here's the solution that worked for me (thanks to Debian's multimedia guru Steve Pusser).  Everything is now up and running.