A sound problem one more time.- THE SOLUTION AT LAST (PLEASE NOTE)
Mark C. Allman
mcallman at allmanpc.com
Fri Feb 15 19:32:18 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 20:09 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Friday 15 February 2008 02:35, Mark C. Allman wrote:
> > 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
>
> Hi Mark. I know I've got pulseaudio on the brain, as I had problems with it,
> and disabled it, but have you got the default install of F8, where pulseaudio
> is enabled? I ask because of the sound apps that you have working. Realplayer
> uses OSS, VLC uses natively OSS, or Alsa, and also Gnomes ESD. Not sure about
> Pidgin (Gaim), but I believe it uses OSS for it's sounds. Puzzling why Alsa
> apps won't work.
>
> If you havn't messed with pulseaudio since installing F8, I think I'd do a:
> yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
>
> having done that I'd see if now aplay, audio cd's, etc work.
>
> Enough for now.
>
> Nigel.
The only PulseAudio package I have installed is
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8. It's needed for
libflashsupport-000-0.1.svn20070904.
The OSS packages I have installed:
alsa-oss-libs-1.0.14-3.fc8
nss_compat_ossl-0.9.2-3.fc8
alsa-oss-1.0.14-3.fc8
alsa-plugins-oss-1.0.15-2.fc8
-- Mark C. Allman, PMP
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