A sound problem one more time.- THE SOLUTION AT LAST (PLEASE NOTE)
Mark C. Allman
mcallman at allmanpc.com
Fri Feb 15 01:35:49 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 22:13 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Thursday 14 February 2008 18:01, Mark C. Allman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 22:43 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 13 February 2008 21:34, Frank Chiulli wrote:
>
>
> > > > Nigel,
> > > > I have a Sound Blaster Live! Value. This is an older machine. F8
> > > > detected the card automatically. Unfortunately I can't tell you
> > > > exactly when I got the error. I had tried lots of things to get sound
> > > > to work but never did. It wasn't a big deal. Then I was looking at
> > > > something else when I was the error. I figured that I would take a
> > > > look at it. It seems like an easy fix. It seems pretty obvious to me
> > > > what was wrong. So I corrected it. Then sound worked.
> > > >
> > > > Frank
> > >
> > > Thanks for the reply Frank. I was hoping that you would say that your
> > > card was also an isa one, and would tie it in with Aarons problems.
> > >
> > > It's nice to see that both of you have resolved the problem, but what's
> > > going on to cause these problems is beyond me.
> > >
> > > As you see from what I posted above, my audigy2 soundblaster was detected
> > > ok, and apart from disabling pulseaudio by removing
> > > alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, and adding the usual lines to /etc/modprobe.conf
> > > for my usb midi keyboard that uses snd-usb-audio, the sounds are working
> > > ok.
> > >
> > > Anyway, the fact that both you and Aaron now have sounds is the main
> > > thing. Quite why you've both had problems, and me none, I've no idea.
> > > That's computers for you.
> > >
> > > Nigel.
> >
> Mark says:
> > When I run the "alsa-info.sh" script I see an error message when it
> > tries to collect the data that says something like "no soundcard found."
> > I think it's the same error that I see when I run aplay to list out
> > cards:
> > [mcallman at prez tmp]$ aplay -l
> > aplay: device_list:205: no soundcards found...
> >
> > Also, when I look at the script results, I see the following at about
> > line 65 (this is after I tried "model=toshiba" in modprobe.conf even
> > though my laptop is a Dell XPS 1710):
> > Loaded sound module option
> > --------------------------
> > Module: snd_hda_intel
> > enable : N
> > id : <NULL>
> > index : 0
> > model : toshiba
> > position_fix : 0
> > power_save : 0
> > power_save_controller : Y
> > probe_mask : -1
> > single_cmd : N
> >
> > Could the "enable: N" line be the key here? For those of you that have
> > sound working, what do you see listed for "enable?"
> >
> > If it helps, you can look at all the test results that the script
> > uploaded at:
> > http://pastebin.ca/903970
> >
> >
> > -- Mark C. Allman, PMP
>
>
> Hi Mark. I've sort of lost the plot a bit, but do you have your sound working
> now?
>
> I ask because the Alsa development folks are working hard on resolving
> problems, particularly with the hda intel cards. Alsa driver 1.0.16 has just
> been released, and I see many patches being applied to the hda intel codecs,
> including your STAC9200 one.
>
> Nigel.
Sound works using:
Pidgin
VLC (playing Rush/Tom Sawyer right now)
RealAudio
It does not work for:
gnome-cd (won't start a track)
grip (starts reading tracks, but no sound)
aplay/arecord ("no soundcard found")
Flash in Firefox
system-config-soundcard (everything's there--just no sound!!)
I can pipe a ".au" file (if I remember the extension correctly)
to /dev/audio and I hear it.
Some "/proc/asound" stuff:
[mcallman at prez X11]$ ls /proc/asound/
card0 cards devices hwdep Intel modules oss pcm seq timers version
[mcallman at prez X11]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xdfffc000 irq 21
[mcallman at prez X11]$ ls /proc/asound/card0
codec#0 codec#1 id oss_mixer pcm0c pcm0p pcm1p
[mcallman at prez X11]$ cat /proc/asound/pcm
00-01: STAC92xx Digital : STAC92xx Digital : playback 1
00-00: STAC92xx Analog : STAC92xx Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
[mcallman at prez X11]$ cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_hda_intel
[mcallman at prez X11]$ cat /proc/asound/devices
2: : timer
3: : sequencer
4: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
5: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
6: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
7: [ 0- 1]: hardware dependent
8: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent
9: [ 0] : control
[mcallman at prez X11]$ ls -ld /proc/asound/Intel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2008-02-14 20:18 /proc/asound/Intel ->
card0
Any suggestions would be welcome. If any of the Alsa development folks
would like a test bed to try out ideas just let me know.
-- Mark C. Allman, PMP
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