No sound problem ?

Wed Mar 22 09:58:27 UTC 2006

Hey.
Really appreciate this bit of help !

system-config-soundcard gives this output :

prompt > system-config-soundcard
ALSA lib control.c:817:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory
cat: /proc/asound/version: No such file or directory
cat: /proc/asound/modules: No such file or directory
cat: /proc/asound/pcm: No such file or directory
prompt >

The log produced is below (which is probably much more useful !).

------- System Config Soundcard --------
Wed Mar 22 09:53:35 GMT 2006

------- lspci --------
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM 
Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller 
(rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB 
UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB 
UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB 
UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB 
UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 
EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC 
Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE 
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller 
(rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus 
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER 
(ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 
5200] (rev a1)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet 
Controller (rev 02)

------- lsmod --------
Module                  Size  Used by
bluetooth              52901  0
snd_ac97_bus            6465  0
soundcore              13345  0
snd_page_alloc         14537  0
autofs4                22981  1
nfs                   198061  1
lockd                  59465  2 nfs
nfs_acl                 7745  1 nfs
sunrpc                140925  4 nfs,lockd,nfs_acl
dm_mirror              24081  0
dm_mod                 54745  1 dm_mirror
video                  18885  0
button                 10577  0
battery                13253  0
ac                      8901  0
ipv6                  246433  20
lp                     16265  0
parport_pc             29413  1
parport                38281  2 lp,parport_pc
floppy                 61829  0
nvram                  12617  0
e100                   37573  0
mii                     9281  1 e100
sg                     36317  0
ehci_hcd               33229  0
uhci_hcd               33233  0
i2c_i801               12365  0
hw_random               9817  0
i2c_core               24897  1 i2c_i801
ata_piix               13893  3
libata                 58065  1 ata_piix
sd_mod                 20417  4
scsi_mod              129001  3 sg,libata,sd_mod
ext3                  121417  2
jbd                    56917  1 ext3

------- /etc/modprobe.conf --------
# Note: for use under 2.4, changes must also be made to modules.conf!
alias char-major-116-* snd
alias snd-card-0 
snd-/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1833_FC4smp/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko
alias char-major-14-* soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-11 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd major=116 cards_limit=1 device_mode=0666 device_gid=0 
device_uid=0
alias eth0 e100

------- /etc/asound.conf --------
#Generated by system-config-soundcard, do not edit by hand
#HWCONF
#DEV 0
pcm.!default { type hw card 0 device 0 }
ctl.!default { type hw card 0 }

------- aplay -l --------
aplay: device_list:222: no soundcards found...

------- amixer --------

------- /proc/asound/version --------

------- rpm -q alsa-lib --------
alsa-lib-1.0.11-3.rc2.2

------- rpm -q alsa-utils --------
alsa-utils-1.0.11-3.rc2

------- /proc/asound/modules --------

------- /proc/asound/pcm --------

------- system-config-soundcard --------

Wrong card index 0...
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:273: DeprecationWarning: 
use gtk.ComboBox
  self.primarySubDeviceOptionMenu = gtk.OptionMenu()
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:308: 
GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.timeout_add is deprecated, use 
gobject.timeout_add instead
  self.timer = gtk.timeout_add (100, self.checkStatus, self)
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:548: 
GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.TRUE is deprecated, use True instead
  gtk.main()
ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM plughw:0,0
aplay: main:547: audio open error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM plughw:0,0
aplay: main:547: audio open error: No such file or directory
Read config:
card 0
device 0
HW 1
----------- Kudzu -------------
Desc:           Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio 
Controller
Driver:         snd-intel8x0
Device:         None

----------- **** -------------

Andy Green wrote:

> Neil Brookes wrote:
>
>>  >Where did this alsasound initscript come from? It doesn't seem to 
>> be part of a normal FC5 install?
>>  >-Andy
>>
>> Good question.
>> I wish I could tell you !
>
>
> Well presumably you discovered that it existed from somewhere.  It 
> doesn't exist here.
>
>> How is one 'supposed' to start sound ??
>
>
> Sound starts itself if discovered and configured by FC5.  You don't 
> need to install any special Alsa things.
>
> What happens when you run
>
> system-config-soundcard
>
> -Andy
>
>
>

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Neil Brookes
Bioinformatics
Cancer Research UK

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