Audio vs ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe mobo
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat Nov 29 16:35:19 UTC 2008
On Saturday 29 November 2008, Nigel Henry wrote:
>On Saturday 29 November 2008 06:46, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> Up2date reinstall of the latest FU8 respin.
>>
>> The various audio devices found by an lspci -vv on this mobo are:
>> ======
>> 00:06.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev
>> a2) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81f6
>> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
>> Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
>> ======
>> 01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value
>> Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device 1001
>> Kernel driver in use: EMU10K1_Audigy
>> Kernel modules: snd-emu10k1
>> =======
>> 03:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device aa10
>> Subsystem: Diamond Multimedia Systems Unknown device aa10
>>
>> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
>> Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
>> =======
>>
>> And there is also a pcHDTV-3000 which has a connexant audio but its
>> obviously a mic level output, and since tvtime doesn't work on the video
>> card associated with the last device listed above, the point is moot till
>> it does work.
>>
>> The first device above I have not been able to get a peep out of, so I've
>> made the second one, the Audigy2, the default. And I have NDI where to
>> plug anything that looks like audio into that ATI based HD-2400-Pro video
>> card, but lspci says its there.
>>
>> Testing the sound for the audigy2 in system-config-soundcard works, but
>> places like utube are silent. As is cnn et all since the last reboot.
>>
>> 2 questions:
>>
>> do we have a 'vu meter' that can be switched to monitor the various audio
>> inputs?
>>
>> And when I had to reinstall, I see that pulseaudio was installed, and a
>> now frozen 'lsof|grep audio' returns this, but has not returned a prompt.
>> [root at coyote cards]# lsof |grep audio
>> pulseaudi 3473 root txt REG 8,3 57972
>> 53801556 /usr/bin/pulseaudio
>> artsd 3528 root mem REG 8,3 96380
>> 53795593 /usr/lib/libaudio.so.2.4
>> artsd 3528 root mem REG 8,3 171580
>> 5603705 /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0.0.2
>>
>> Is this yet another case where I need to remove as much PA as I can in
>> order to get working sound again, or is there a configurator for this PITA
>> that might be able to fix this? The silence here is deafening.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers, Gene
>
>Hi there Gene.
>
>I think I'd disable Pulseaudio temporarily, and you can do that by just
>removing the package, alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.
Now done, but not done an x restart yet. Now I have, and I can now hear
cnn.com's video's.
>If your using KDE, removing
>that package will also remove the kde-settings-pulseaudio package. You can
>always reinstall them later, but IIRC Pulseaudio has problems with multiple
>cards, but I may be wrong there.
I believe you are correct at this point.
>Can you post the output from a few commands, as below.
>
>cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Audigy2 ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 Value [SB0400]
Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] (rev.0, serial:0x10011102) at
0xac00, irq 17
1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xfe024000 irq 21
2 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfddfc000 irq 16
>cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18rc3.
>grep ^Codec /proc/asound/card?/codec*
/proc/asound/card1/codec#0:Codec: Analog Devices AD1988B
/proc/asound/card2/codec#0:Codec: ATI ATI R6xx HDMI
>/sbin/lsmod | grep snd
snd_emu10k1_synth 7168 0
snd_emux_synth 32512 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 6272 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 6784 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_emu10k1 134560 2 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi 19968 2 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec 97312 1 snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus 2432 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_hda_intel 399664 2
snd_seq_dummy 3588 0
snd_seq_oss 29824 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7040 2 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 47664 8
snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 37888 0
snd_mixer_oss 14720 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 66308 4
snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_device 7308 7
snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_util_mem 4352 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_timer 19976 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 7684 3 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_hda_intel
snd 48292 20
snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
snd_page_alloc 9224 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
soundcore 7136 1 snd
>If you leave Pulseaudio enabled, alsamixer only shows a single control,
I've been using kmix, which can show all 3 'cards'. Multiselector click bar.
>but
>you can get to the controls for the individual cards (presuming they all
> show up in /proc/asound/cards), by opening alsamixer on the CLI, as below.
>
>alsamixer -D hw:0 (that's for card0)
Gets me the audigy2's controls
>alsamixer -D hw:1 (for card1, and so on)
Gets me the HDA-Nvidia controls
and:
alsamixer -D hw:2
Gets me the single control for the
Card: HDA ATI HDMI
Chip: ATI ATI R6xx HDMI
>You may need to set a model option for the onboard card in
> /etc/modprobe.conf, to get the necessary mixer controls to show up in
> alsamixer, or sometimes a model option is necessary just to get the card
> detected. Post back the stuff requested above first, as we need to know the
> codec that the hda intel card uses, so as to know which model options to
> try.
I am interested in the intel stuff only if it can do everything the Audigy2
can. If that's the case, I'll remove it from the machine.
>
>My Asus M2N-X Plus board has sound working out of the box, but to get a CD
>slider showing in alsamixer, I have to set a model option as below.
>options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig (just an example)
My present /etc/modprobe.conf:
========
alias eth0 forcedeth
alias scsi_hostadapter libata
alias scsi_hostadapter1 pata_amd
alias scsi_hostadapter2 sata_nv
alias scsi_hostadapter3 pata_jmicron
alias scsi_hostadapter4 ahci
options snd cards_limit=8
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
options snd-emu10k1 index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel index=1
alias snd-card-2 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel index=2
alias snd-card-7 snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=7
=========
That is what re-arranges the card order to make the Audigy2 the default in
previous incarnation of F8.
>
>I do have Fedora 8 on the machine with this mobo.
>
>All the best.
>
>Nigel.
Thanks Nigel, a bunch.
--
Cheers, Gene
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