No Sound in ALSA & Pulseaudio despite configuring

Right.
So, I installed ALSA, and fully followed the wiki's instructions to no avail. On a previous install on another computer, I was able to fix the problem by installing Pulseaudio, and so I did it again on my current comp. I got sound on this computer on a singular occasion after the Pulseaudio install, but now sound is gone again. Any idea why?
I am using compiz-standalone, and in my ~/.start-fusion.sh, I already have
pulseaudio --start
in it.
However, when I run pacmd list, it still states that there is no Pulseaudio daemon running. I have to start it manually in the end, and still, sound doesn't work.
I also noticed that when executing
$ fuser -v /dev/snd/*
$ fuser -v /dev/dsp
/dev/dsp does not exist.
asound.conf is already to let pulseaudio be the default device, and everything in alsamixer is unmuted. I have also installed alsa-plugins, so there, really, should be no reason why pulseaudio, and sound in general doesn't work.

I'm not sure what volume control/mixer you are using but I installed pulse audio yesterday along with gnome-media-pulseaudio and through gnome's applet I was able to change my hardware's profile and manage to get sound and volume controls back hope it helps (i'm running compiz stand alone as well but have Gnome DE too)

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[SOLVED] No Sound with ALSA & Pulseaudio

Recently I made the transition from Debian to Arch, installed on a
seperate partition using the chroot install method.
All went smoothly, with the exception that there is no audio whatsoever.
Over the last week I've read through the related topics on the wiki and searched the forum,
but to no avail
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Here are some details;
lspci | grep audio
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW
(ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:2668] (rev 03)
lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0m 9736 0
snd_ac97_codec 89404 1 snd_intel8x0m
ac97_bus 910 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_hda_codec_realtek 35187 1
snd_hda_intel 31255 0
snd_hda_codec 128666 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 4750 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 33509 0
snd_mixer_oss 12450 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 63880 5
snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_intel8x0m
snd_page_alloc 5978 3 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel,snd_intel8x0m
snd_seq_dummy 1131 0
snd_seq_oss 25116 0
snd_seq_midi 4104 0
snd_seq_midi_event 4484 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi 14828 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 41044 6
snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device 4256 5
snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_midi
snd_timer 14946 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 44566 14
snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_se$
soundcore 4386 1 snd
ls /dev/snd/*
/dev/snd/controlC0
/dev/snd/hwC0D2
/dev/snd/seq
/dev/snd/timer
/dev/snd/by-path:
pci-0000:00:1b.0
cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_hda_intel
aplay -lL
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
default
Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
Screenshots of alsamixer
http://www.imgbin.org/index.php?page=image&id=15874
http://www.imgbin.org/index.php?page=image&id=15875
pavucontrol shows no devices for configuration
Last edited by naesk (2013-12-13 08:11:44)

a couple of days i had a similar problem, because sound modules for my internal modem were loaded. maybe you can try to blacklist the snd_hda_codec_realtek module, which looks like a network card.
you can achieve that by putting
blacklist snd_hda_codec_realtek
in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf and reboot.
rgds
hcjl
Last edited by hcjl (2013-12-13 08:39:48)

[Solved]No sound anymore (ALSA/PulseAudio)

Ok so I have no idea why I have no sound anymore, I didn't install anything...
Anyway, that's what I've tried:
-Check if mixer are all up in alsamixer
-Try to play a bit with pavucontrol
-Reboot
-Rerun pulseaudio with verbose
-Mute and unmute with physical button (I don't know why but I used to get this problem and it used to be solved just doing this)
-Googgling and searching this forum
Here are some more info
Pulseaudio logs:
└┼─$─┤▶ pulseaudio -k; pulseaudio -vvvvv
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.
D: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: RealtimeKit worked.
I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 5.0
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wall -W -Wextra -Wno-long-long -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 3.14.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 14 20:40:47 CEST 2014
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 4 CPUs.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts disabled.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is a3af3988434b49f3b8af2ab66eba685b.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is c1.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /run/user/1001/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/unkn0wn/.config/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-5.0/modules.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Fresh high-resolution timers available! Bon appetit!
D: [pulseaudio] memblock.c: Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65472
I: [pulseaudio] cpu-x86.c: CPU flags: CMOV MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4_1 SSE4_2
I: [pulseaudio] svolume_mmx.c: Initialising MMX optimized volume functions.
I: [pulseaudio] remap_mmx.c: Initialising MMX optimized remappers.
I: [pulseaudio] svolume_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized volume functions.
I: [pulseaudio] remap_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized remappers.
I: [pulseaudio] sconv_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized conversions.
I: [pulseaudio] svolume_orc.c: Initialising ORC optimized volume functions.
D: [pulseaudio] database-tdb.c: Opened TDB database '/home/unkn0wn/.config/pulse/a3af3988434b49f3b8af2ab66eba685b-device-volumes.tdb'
I: [pulseaudio] module-device-restore.c: Successfully opened database file '/home/unkn0wn/.config/pulse/a3af3988434b49f3b8af2ab66eba685b-device-volumes'.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-device-restore" (index: #0; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] database-tdb.c: Opened TDB database '/home/unkn0wn/.config/pulse/a3af3988434b49f3b8af2ab66eba685b-stream-volumes.tdb'
I: [pulseaudio] module-stream-restore.c: Successfully opened database file '/home/unkn0wn/.config/pulse/a3af3988434b49f3b8af2ab66eba685b-stream-volumes'.
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1 added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry0
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry1
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry2
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry3
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry4
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry5
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry6
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry7
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry8
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry9
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry10
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry11
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry12
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry13
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry14
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry15
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry16
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry17
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry18
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry19
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-stream-restore" (index: #1; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] database-tdb.c: Opened TDB database '/home/unkn0wn/.config/pulse/a3af3988434b49f3b8af2ab66eba685b-card-database.tdb'
I: [pulseaudio] module-card-restore.c: Successfully opened database file '/home/unkn0wn/.config/pulse/a3af3988434b49f3b8af2ab66eba685b-card-database'.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-card-restore" (index: #2; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-augment-properties" (index: #3; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-switch-on-port-available" (index: #4; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-5.0/modules/module-udev-detect.so': success
D: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: /dev/snd/controlC0 is accessible: yes
D: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0 is busy: yes
D: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: Ignoring /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/sound/card29, because marked so.
I: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: Found 1 cards.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-udev-detect" (index: #5; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-5.0/modules/module-jackdbus-detect.so': success
D: [pulseaudio] dbus-util.c: Successfully connected to D-Bus session bus c9a6328a5bfaef44136d134253502922 as :1.32
D: [pulseaudio] module-jackdbus-detect.c: jackdbus isn't running.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-jackdbus-detect" (index: #6; argument: "channels=2").
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-5.0/modules/module-bluetooth-policy.so': success
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-bluetooth-policy" (index: #7; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-5.0/modules/module-bluetooth-discover.so': success
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-5.0/modules/module-bluez5-discover.so': success
D: [pulseaudio] dbus-util.c: Successfully connected to D-Bus system bus 54d6e91cb1d72b925a540cf453502907 as :1.40
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-bluez5-discover" (index: #9; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-5.0/modules/module-bluez4-discover.so': failure
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-bluetooth-discover" (index: #8; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-5.0/modules/module-esound-protocol-unix.so': success
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-esound-protocol-unix" (index: #10; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-native-protocol-unix" (index: #11; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-5.0/modules/module-gconf.so': success
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-gconf" (index: #12; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module-default-device-restore.c: Saved default sink 'auto_null' not existent, not restoring default sink setting.
I: [pulseaudio] module-default-device-restore.c: Saved default source 'auto_null.monitor' not existent, not restoring default source setting.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-default-device-restore" (index: #13; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-rescue-streams" (index: #14; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module-always-sink.c: Autoloading null-sink as no other sinks detected.
I: [pulseaudio] module-device-restore.c: Restoring volume for sink auto_null: front-left: 99957 / 153%, front-right: 99957 / 153%
I: [pulseaudio] module-device-restore.c: Restoring mute state for sink auto_null.
I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Created sink 0 "auto_null" with sample spec s16le 2ch 44100Hz and channel map front-left,front-right
I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.description = "Dummy Output"
I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.class = "abstract"
I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.icon_name = "audio-card"
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to change event.
I: [pulseaudio] module-device-restore.c: Restoring mute state for source auto_null.monitor.
I: [pulseaudio] source.c: Created source 0 "auto_null.monitor" with sample spec s16le 2ch 44100Hz and channel map front-left,front-right
I: [pulseaudio] source.c: device.description = "Monitor of Dummy Output"
I: [pulseaudio] source.c: device.class = "monitor"
I: [pulseaudio] source.c: device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"
D: [null-sink] module-null-sink.c: Thread starting up
D: [pulseaudio] module-device-restore.c: Could not set format on sink auto_null
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-null-sink" (index: #16; argument: "sink_name=auto_null sink_properties='device.description="Dummy Output"'").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-always-sink" (index: #15; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-intended-roles" (index: #17; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink auto_null becomes idle, timeout in 5 seconds.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-suspend-on-idle" (index: #18; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-5.0/modules/module-console-kit.so': success
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-console-kit" (index: #19; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-5.0/modules/module-systemd-login.so': success
I: [pulseaudio] client.c: Created 0 "Login Session c1"
D: [pulseaudio] module-systemd-login.c: Added new session c1
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-systemd-login" (index: #20; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-position-event-sounds" (index: #21; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module-role-cork.c: Using role 'phone' as trigger role.
D: [pulseaudio] module-role-cork.c: Using roles 'music' and 'video' as cork roles.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-role-cork" (index: #22; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-filter-heuristics" (index: #23; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-filter-apply" (index: #24; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Got org.PulseAudio1!
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Got org.pulseaudio.Server!
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup complete.
E: [pulseaudio] bluez5-util.c: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files
I: [pulseaudio] module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink auto_null idle f
└┼─$─┤▶ loginctl session-status c1
c1 - unkn0wn (1001)
Since: Thu 2014-04-17 21:18:58 CEST; 16min ago
Leader: 1048 (slim)
Seat: seat0; vc7
Display: :0.0
Remote: user root
Service: slim; type x11; class user
State: active
Unit: session-c1.scope
|-1048 /usr/bin/slim -nodaemon
|-2206 /usr/bin/openbox --startup /usr/lib/openbox/openbox-autostart OPENBOX
|-2214 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
|-2215 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
|-2227 tint2
|-2230 xcompmgr -CfF
|-2231 volumeicon
|-2236 conky -q
|-2238 /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi-bus-launcher
|-2252 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --no...
|-2255 /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi2-registryd --use-gnome-session
|-2259 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd
|-2263 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-fuse /run/user/1001/gvfs -f -o big_writes
|-2278 /usr/lib32/skype/skype
|-2320 /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd
|-2322 /usr/lib/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd
|-2376 firefox
|-2416 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD
-I see the mixer going up and down in pavucontrol if I play some music
└┼─$─┤▶ loginctl session-status c1
c1 - unkn0wn (1001)
Since: Thu 2014-04-17 21:18:58 CEST; 16min ago
Leader: 1048 (slim)
Seat: seat0; vc7
Display: :0.0
Remote: user root
Service: slim; type x11; class user
State: active
Unit: session-c1.scope
|-1048 /usr/bin/slim -nodaemon
|-2206 /usr/bin/openbox --startup /usr/lib/openbox/openbox-autostart OPENBOX
|-2214 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
|-2215 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
|-2227 tint2
|-2230 xcompmgr -CfF
|-2231 volumeicon
|-2236 conky -q
|-2238 /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi-bus-launcher
|-2252 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --no...
|-2255 /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi2-registryd --use-gnome-session
|-2259 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd
|-2263 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-fuse /run/user/1001/gvfs -f -o big_writes
|-2278 /usr/lib32/skype/skype
|-2320 /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd
|-2322 /usr/lib/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd
|-2376 firefox
|-2416 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD
└┼─$─┤▶ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CX20590 Analog [CX20590 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
└┼─$─┤▶ aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
default
Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
HDA Intel PCH, CX20590 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CX20590 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CX20590 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CX20590 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CX20590 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CX20590 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CX20590 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=1
HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 1
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=2
HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 2
HDMI Audio Output
Don't really know what else to provide...
About my setup it's a thinkpad t420 not plugged in any hdmi screen or simething like that
Thank you
Last edited by Truc (2014-04-19 13:15:28)

└┼─$─┤▶ fuser -v /dev/snd/*
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: unkn0wn 2231 F.... volumeicon
└┼─$─┤▶ speaker-test -c 2 -t wav -D plughw:0,0
speaker-test 1.0.27.2
Playback device is plughw:0,0
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
It says it's busy but I don't see anything that could use it. I quit skype before trying

[SOLVED]No Sound with ALSA - Intel Corporation 82801G HD Audio

Hey all,
I've succesfully installed Arch Linux. My past two attempts have met with failure, all because of my own failure to read and follow directions correctly. This time everything is installed correctly. I am running Kdemod3 on my laptop with Arch and everything works great. I LOVE Pacman and the simplicity of Arch's configuration files. It's super fast and all together simple. My only remaining problem is this:
My sound with ALSA is not functioning. I followed the installation instructions at the arch wiki and after unmuting all of my channels I still would not get any sound. My sound module is snd_hda_intel and it is detected, loaded and the whole nine yards (as far as I can tell). My user is a member of the 'audio' user group also. I looked at the troubleshooting tips on the bottom of the Wiki but decided not to try them as they do not seem to pertain to my card (snd_hda_intel) but I will try them if anyone would like me to.
If anyone has any ideas, they'd be greatly appreciated!:D Anything I can provide that you need I will be more than willing to provide.
Thanks for such a great distribution,
Dan
Last edited by JazzDan (2008-06-29 05:06:35)

Problem resolved. I ran alsaconf, selected my soundcard, and everything was working from there out. Thanks MisfitI38 on the IRC!!!

No sound in alsa

I have no sound using alsa.
cat /procs/asound/cards outputs:
0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDMI
HDA Intel HDMI at 0xf7c14000 irq 34
1 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7c10000 irq 35
The volume in alsamixer is set '00' and in green color. Volume level is set to 100.
Last edited by toni (2014-11-22 17:09:26)

MoonSwan wrote:
Damnit somehow my config file I posted failed to show up! Here it is (again) and it should show you the syntax you're trying to duplicate by putting each "soundcard" on a separate line. See this code for an example configuration:
#/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
options snd slots=snd_ctxfi,snd_hda_intel
options snd_ctxfi index=0
options snd_hda_intel index=-2
I think what the kernel is seeing is the same soundcard that's registering different outputs. One is an analog device, e.g. card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC284 Analog [ALC284 Analog]. The other is an HDMI device that's used when you plug in HDMI cables and a suitable output such as a stero amp, e.g. card 1: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
If I'm right you'll want to follow these instructions that I've cut/pasted from the Arch wiki Alsa page that I posted earlier:
When loading modules that are used by multiple cards (for example snd-hda-intel) it is recommended to include vendor and product identifications into options. To get vid and pid use:
$ lspci -nn | grep -i audio
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383] (rev 40)
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV770 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4850/4870] [1002:aa30]
07:05.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies Inc. VT1720/24 [Envy24PT/HT] PCI Multi-Channel Audio Controller [1412:1724] (rev 01)
Last numbers in square brackets are [vid:pid], so for the above example, for setting Azalia as default card following is correct:
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
# SB [HDA ATI SB]
options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=auto vid=1002 pid=4383
# HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI]
options snd-hda-intel index=1 model=auto vid=1002 pid=aa30
# HiFi [Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 HiFi]
options snd-ice1724 index=2 model=prodigy71hifi vid=1412 pid=1724
Tip: To list vendor and product IDs of USB sound cards, use the lsusb command instead of lspci.
Basically you want Alsa to "see" each iteration of the same soundcard as a separate "device," in this case the analog and digital modes of one soundcard. The instructions I pasted here should help you sort this out but if not post again and I'll do my best to help you where I can.
Finally, I have solved it by creating file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf which content is:
# Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller [8086:0c0c] (rev 06)
options snd_hda_intel index=1 model=auto vid=8086 pid=0c0c
# Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller [8086:8c20] (rev 04)
options snd_hda_intel index=0 model=auto vid=8086 pid=8c20
The problem was the order in which they were initialized at boot time. It was not taking into account the correct one.
Last edited by toni (2014-11-17 20:22:50)

[Solved] Sound with ALSA and PulseAudio at the same time?

Hi, I am using arch linux to play Counter Strike on.
While it works fine and all, I just don't get any sound in CS because I am using Mangler, which only seems to work with my microphone if I use PulseAudio.
I hope this is a rather simple issue, basicly, I just want to enable sound in PulseAudio and ALSA at the same time, is this possible?
Last edited by Paaskehare (2010-08-12 15:39:09)

I have read that PulseAudio decreases sound quality, and therefore I would not like to use this as a systemwide driver, but rather only where it is needed.
Please correct me if I am wrong
Edit:
Ok, sound quality isn't noticeably worse, so this will do. HOWEVER, while I am in Counter Strike my sound is delayed by ~1 second, and it is therefore useless, any thoughts on that matter?
Edit again .. Solved this time:
I set my ALSA plugin in winecfg to "Hardware Acceleration: Emulation" - that seemed to do the trick.
Last edited by Paaskehare (2010-08-12 15:38:56)

Hissing/static sound from both pulseaudio and ALSA

I hear a hissing sound whenever the volume is not muted. At first I thought it was a pulseaudio problem but I still hear it when not using pulseaudio

I think I found the problem but the solution is on a ubuntu ppa. the ppa is https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev … alsa-daily and the package is oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms I think that this is the solution as a user on the ubuntu forums were having the same issue with a similar motherboard http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2234198 . Can anyone help me?

Pulse Audio no longer detecting sound card; ALSA still detects

After a recent update, pulseaudio has stopped detecting my sound card. ALSA still detects my soundcard, and I was able to find the following in the verbose output of starting pulseaudio.
D: [pulseaudio] reserve-wrap.c: Successfully acquired reservation lock on device 'Audio0'
I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)utils.c: could not open configuration file /usr/share/alsa/ucm/HDA Intel/HDA Intel.conf
I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)parser.c: error: could not parse configuration for card HDA Intel
I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)main.c: error: failed to import HDA Intel use case configuration -2
I: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM not available for card HDA Intel
When I check out the ALSA directory mentioned, it turns out to indeed be the case that the entire ucm directory does not exist
[root@ArchSpiron james-arch]# ls -lah /usr/share/alsa/
total 52K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Apr 14 14:56 pcm
drwxr-xr-x 7 root 4.0K Apr 14 14:56 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 9.0K Apr 14 14:12 alsa.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Apr 14 14:12 alsa.conf.d
drwxr-xr-x 208 root 4.0K Apr 13 15:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Apr 11 07:20 init
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Apr 11 07:20 speaker-test
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 4.0K Jan 23 21:21 cards
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 523 Dec 29 21:33 bluetooth.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 155 Dec 18 22:34 smixer.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 3.2K Dec 18 22:34 sndo-mixer.alisp
Instead the configuration file it's looking for exists under the cards/ directory
[root@ArchSpiron james-arch]# ls -lah /usr/share/alsa/cards/
total 264K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 4.0K Apr 14 14:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root 4.0K Apr 14 14:56 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 4.6K Apr 13 16:20 HDA-Intel.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.4K Apr 13 16:20 aliases.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 7.0K Apr 12 08:10 USB-Audio.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Jan 23 21:21 SI7018
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 669 Dec 18 22:34 AACI.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 302 Dec 18 22:34 ATIIXP-MODEM.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.2K Dec 18 22:34 ATIIXP-SPDMA.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.4K Dec 18 22:34 ATIIXP.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 437 Dec 18 22:34 AU8810.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 159 Dec 18 22:34 AU8820.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 520 Dec 18 22:34 AU8830.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 5.7K Dec 18 22:34 Audigy.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 7.5K Dec 18 22:34 Audigy2.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.3K Dec 18 22:34 Aureon51.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.5K Dec 18 22:34 Aureon71.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 3.8K Dec 18 22:34 CA0106.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.8K Dec 18 22:34 CMI8338-SWIEC.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.9K Dec 18 22:34 CMI8338.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.1K Dec 18 22:34 CMI8738-MC6.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.9K Dec 18 22:34 CMI8738-MC8.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.6K Dec 18 22:34 CMI8788.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.9K Dec 18 22:34 CS46xx.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 5.5K Dec 18 22:34 EMU10K1.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.7K Dec 18 22:34 EMU10K1X.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.4K Dec 18 22:34 ENS1370.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.8K Dec 18 22:34 ENS1371.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 152 Dec 18 22:34 ES1968.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 4.3K Dec 18 22:34 Echo_Echo3G.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.2K Dec 18 22:34 FM801.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 333 Dec 18 22:34 FWSpeakers.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 672 Dec 18 22:34 FireWave.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 217 Dec 18 22:34 GUS.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.1K Dec 18 22:34 ICE1712.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.8K Dec 18 22:34 ICE1724.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 192 Dec 18 22:34 ICH-MODEM.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 3.0K Dec 18 22:34 ICH.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.8K Dec 18 22:34 ICH4.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 558 Dec 18 22:34 Maestro3.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 4.7K Dec 18 22:34 NFORCE.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 657 Dec 18 22:34 PC-Speaker.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 486 Dec 18 22:34 PMac.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 705 Dec 18 22:34 PMacToonie.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.2K Dec 18 22:34 PS3.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 780 Dec 18 22:34 RME9636.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 780 Dec 18 22:34 RME9652.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.5K Dec 18 22:34 SB-XFi.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.2K Dec 18 22:34 SI7018.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.7K Dec 18 22:34 TRID4DWAVENX.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.2K Dec 18 22:34 VIA686A.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.7K Dec 18 22:34 VIA8233.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.8K Dec 18 22:34 VIA8233A.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.5K Dec 18 22:34 VIA8237.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 830 Dec 18 22:34 VX222.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 839 Dec 18 22:34 VXPocket.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.5K Dec 18 22:34 VXPocket440.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.4K Dec 18 22:34 YMF744.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 687 Dec 18 22:34 aliases.alisp
I'm not at all familiar with pulseaudio configuration. Does anyone know of a good way for me to resolve this issue? Have I even identified the correct issue?
UPDATE:
I was able to work around my problem for the moment by symlinking the configuration file to the location that pulseaudio was actually looking for it
# mkdir -p /usr/share/alsa/ucm/HDA\ Intel
# ln -s /usr/share/alsa/cards/HDA-Intel.conf /usr/share/alsa/ucm/HDA\ Intel/HDA\ Intel.conf
Although this does get my sound back, it is a hacky work-around and obviously not ideal. Anyone who knows a bit about pulse configuration, I welcome your input here
Last edited by OakRaider4Life (2013-04-14 22:14:34)

Thank you so much for posting your solution!
I was having the same problem. The funny part was it started happening (and not always) after KDE says that the Intel HDA device is "gone" and asking me to remove it from my configuration. Even by saying no it wouldn't work. Killing pulseaudio with
pulseaudio -k
would have everything fallback to Alsa but starting pulseaudio again wouldn't work.
Rebooting right away doesn't take care of the issue either but after a while the problem would go away...
Any inputs would be appreaciated!

Blue Yeti USB microphone not working in ALSA/PulseAudio

Hi all,
I recently bought a Blue Yeti USB microphone. It is supposed to require no drivers for Windows and OS X, and so far, it works well under Windows, but I cannot seem to get it to function on Arch Linux. As fair warning, although I am relatively experienced with Linux, I don't know much about the internals of ALSA/PA --- up until now, it has just "always worked", so this is my first real foray into the area. I've tried for many days, with no success, to get this thing working.
So, let's start off first with my configuration.
I have a few audio devices:
An on-board audio solution that I don't typically use. For testing, I have connected an old, crappy pair of headphones, but normally I keep this disabled. It has one capture device. (Analog stereo [or 5.1/7.1/etc] duplex)
An external DAC that is connected via USB and is output-only. So, no capture devices on that. (Digital/IEC958 output)
The Blue Yeti itself, which is connected via USB and supports output (it has an internal DAC) as well as input. So, one capture device here. (Digital stereo output and analog stereo input???)
The HDMI-out stuff for nvidia, which I never use
Here is the output of "arecord -l":
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 1: Microphone [Yeti Stereo Microphone], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 2: ALC892 Alt Analog [ALC892 Alt Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Here is the the output of "arecord -L":
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
default
Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)
sysdefault:CARD=Microphone
Yeti Stereo Microphone, USB Audio
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
Yeti Stereo Microphone, USB Audio
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
Yeti Stereo Microphone, USB Audio
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
Yeti Stereo Microphone, USB Audio
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
Yeti Stereo Microphone, USB Audio
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
Yeti Stereo Microphone, USB Audio
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
Yeti Stereo Microphone, USB Audio
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
Yeti Stereo Microphone, USB Audio
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
Here is the output of "aplay -l" (for completeness):
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Audio [USB2.0 High-Speed True HD Audio], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Microphone [Yeti Stereo Microphone], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
If the output of "aplay -L" is needed, let me know, but it's not all that different from arecord -L.
Here is my /etc/asound.conf:
defaults.pcm.rate_converter "samplerate_best"
pcm.!default {
type pulse
fallback "sysdefault"
hint {
show on
description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
ctl.!default {
type pulse
fallback "sysdefault"
# vim:set ft=alsaconf:
I don't remember where the bulk of that came from; maybe it was installed like that or maybe I put it in there. Here is another useful command showing non-commented-out/non-blank lines in the pulseaudio conf:
$ egrep -v '^;|^#|^$' /etc/pulse/*.conf
/etc/pulse/client.conf:autospawn=no
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf:exit-idle-time=0
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf:default-sample-rate = 192000
So, there's not much I've done there. Here's the contents of /proc/asound/cards:
0 [Audio ]: USB-Audio - USB2.0 High-Speed True HD Audio
CMEDIA USB2.0 High-Speed True HD Audio at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.7, high speed
1 [Microphone ]: USB-Audio - Yeti Stereo Microphone
Blue Microphones Yeti Stereo Microphone at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.8, full speed
2 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7530000 irq 52
3 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xf7080000 irq 17
And here's the contents of /proc/asound/modules:
0 snd_usb_audio
1 snd_usb_audio
2 snd_hda_intel
3 snd_hda_intel
Now, here is the output of "pactl list sources" (the Blue Yeti is last in the list):
Source #3
State: RUNNING
Name: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Description: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
Driver: module-alsa-card.c
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 192000Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Owner Module: 7
Mute: yes
Volume: front-left: 17972 / 27% / -33.71 dB, front-right: 17972 / 27% / -33.71 dB
balance 0.00
Base Volume: 6554 / 10% / -60.00 dB
Monitor of Sink: n/a
Latency: 610 usec, configured 100000 usec
Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
Properties:
alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
device.api = "alsa"
device.class = "sound"
alsa.class = "generic"
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
alsa.name = "ALC892 Analog"
alsa.id = "ALC892 Analog"
alsa.subdevice = "0"
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
alsa.device = "0"
alsa.card = "2"
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7530000 irq 52"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card2"
device.bus = "pci"
device.vendor.id = "8086"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
device.product.id = "1e20"
device.product.name = "7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller"
device.form_factor = "internal"
device.string = "front:2"
device.buffering.buffer_size = "76800"
device.buffering.fragment_size = "19200"
device.access_mode = "mmap"
device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"
device.description = "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo"
alsa.mixer_name = "Realtek ALC892"
alsa.components = "HDA:10ec0892,10438436,00100302"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
Ports:
analog-input-front-mic: Front Microphone (priority: 8500, not available)
analog-input-rear-mic: Rear Microphone (priority: 8200, available)
analog-input-linein: Line In (priority: 8100, not available)
Active Port: analog-input-rear-mic
Formats:
pcm
Source #11
State: RUNNING
Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor
Description: Monitor of Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
Driver: module-alsa-card.c
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 192000Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Owner Module: 7
Mute: no
Volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB, front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
balance 0.00
Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
Monitor of Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Latency: 0 usec, configured 100000 usec
Flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
Properties:
device.description = "Monitor of Built-in Audio Analog Stereo"
device.class = "monitor"
alsa.card = "2"
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7530000 irq 52"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card2"
device.bus = "pci"
device.vendor.id = "8086"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
device.product.id = "1e20"
device.product.name = "7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller"
device.form_factor = "internal"
device.string = "2"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
Formats:
pcm
Source #15
State: RUNNING
Name: alsa_output.usb-CMEDIA_USB2.0_High-Speed_True_HD_Audio-00-Audio.iec958-stereo.monitor
Description: Monitor of USB2.0 High-Speed True HD Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958)
Driver: module-alsa-card.c
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 192000Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Owner Module: 8
Mute: no
Volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB, front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
balance 0.00
Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
Monitor of Sink: alsa_output.usb-CMEDIA_USB2.0_High-Speed_True_HD_Audio-00-Audio.iec958-stereo
Latency: 0 usec, configured 100000 usec
Flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
Properties:
device.description = "Monitor of USB2.0 High-Speed True HD Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958)"
device.class = "monitor"
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "USB2.0 High-Speed True HD Audio"
alsa.long_card_name = "CMEDIA USB2.0 High-Speed True HD Audio at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.7, high speed"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_usb_audio"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1d.0-usb-0:1.7:1.0"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-1/6-1.7/6-1.7:1.0/sound/card0"
udev.id = "usb-CMEDIA_USB2.0_High-Speed_True_HD_Audio-00-Audio"
device.bus = "usb"
device.vendor.id = "0d8c"
device.vendor.name = "C-Media Electronics, Inc."
device.product.id = "0319"
device.product.name = "USB2.0 High-Speed True HD Audio"
device.serial = "CMEDIA_USB2.0_High-Speed_True_HD_Audio"
device.string = "0"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-usb"
Formats:
pcm
Source #19
State: RUNNING
Name: alsa_output.usb-Blue_Microphones_Yeti_Stereo_Microphone_REV8-00-Microphone.iec958-stereo.monitor
Description: Monitor of Integrated Rate Matching Hub Digital Stereo (IEC958)
Driver: module-alsa-card.c
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 48000Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Owner Module: 9
Mute: no
Volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB, front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
balance 0.00
Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
Monitor of Sink: alsa_output.usb-Blue_Microphones_Yeti_Stereo_Microphone_REV8-00-Microphone.iec958-stereo
Latency: 0 usec, configured 100000 usec
Flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
Properties:
device.description = "Monitor of Integrated Rate Matching Hub Digital Stereo (IEC958)"
device.class = "monitor"
alsa.card = "1"
alsa.card_name = "Yeti Stereo Microphone"
alsa.long_card_name = "Blue Microphones Yeti Stereo Microphone at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.8, full speed"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_usb_audio"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1d.0-usb-0:1.8:1.0"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-1/6-1.8/6-1.8:1.0/sound/card1"
udev.id = "usb-Blue_Microphones_Yeti_Stereo_Microphone_REV8-00-Microphone"
device.bus = "usb"
device.vendor.id = "b58e"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corp."
device.product.id = "9e84"
device.product.name = "Integrated Rate Matching Hub"
device.serial = "Blue_Microphones_Yeti_Stereo_Microphone_REV8"
device.form_factor = "microphone"
device.string = "1"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone-usb"
Formats:
pcm
Source #23
State: RUNNING
Name: alsa_input.usb-Blue_Microphones_Yeti_Stereo_Microphone_REV8-00-Microphone.analog-stereo
Description: Integrated Rate Matching Hub Analog Stereo
Driver: module-alsa-card.c
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 48000Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Owner Module: 9
Mute: no
Volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB, front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
balance 0.00
Base Volume: 17775 / 27% / -34.00 dB
Monitor of Sink: n/a
Latency: 949811526 usec, configured 100000 usec
Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
Properties:
alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
device.api = "alsa"
device.class = "sound"
alsa.class = "generic"
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
alsa.name = "USB Audio"
alsa.id = "USB Audio"
alsa.subdevice = "0"
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
alsa.device = "0"
alsa.card = "1"
alsa.card_name = "Yeti Stereo Microphone"
alsa.long_card_name = "Blue Microphones Yeti Stereo Microphone at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.8, full speed"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_usb_audio"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1d.0-usb-0:1.8:1.0"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-1/6-1.8/6-1.8:1.0/sound/card1"
udev.id = "usb-Blue_Microphones_Yeti_Stereo_Microphone_REV8-00-Microphone"
device.bus = "usb"
device.vendor.id = "b58e"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corp."
device.product.id = "9e84"
device.product.name = "Integrated Rate Matching Hub"
device.serial = "Blue_Microphones_Yeti_Stereo_Microphone_REV8"
device.form_factor = "microphone"
device.string = "front:1"
device.buffering.buffer_size = "19200"
device.buffering.fragment_size = "4800"
device.access_mode = "mmap"
device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"
device.description = "Integrated Rate Matching Hub Analog Stereo"
alsa.mixer_name = "USB Mixer"
alsa.components = "USBb58e:9e84"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone-usb"
Ports:
analog-input-mic: Microphone (priority: 8700)
Active Port: analog-input-mic
Formats:
pcm
Honestly, I think that's about all of the configuration info I can give. Here are some screenshots of pavucontrol, though, in case you are not yet sated: http://imgur.com/a/ngyLl
Now, on to the debugging stuff. First: everything except Blue Yeti recording works. The external DAC works, the on-board audio (both input and output) work, using the DAC in the Blue Yeti to play music/monitor the microphone works (so it works as an output). The only thing that doesn't work is actual recording from the Blue Yeti itself.
When I try to record from the Blue Yeti with parecord -v, I get very strange behavior. Essentially, the "latency" of the microphone measured is exactly the same as the time it has been recording. That is, if it has been recording for 5 sec, then the latency is 5000000 usec. Also, if I try to record something in Audacity, I get no result except for a message box that says "Latency Correction has caused the recorded audio to be hidden before zero. Audacity has brought it back to start at zero." Also, pavucontrol doesn't show an input volume bar for the Blue Yeti, as in the above screenshots, whereas it normally will for microphones that are getting input. The Yeti is not muted, either, so it should be picking up ambient fan noise and such.
Does anyone have any ideas? Is there some configuration error I've made? Typically, this sort of stuff simply works out of the box for me, so I am somewhat stuck on what to do. Could it be a driver-level bug?

I'm not sure what you mean by "mixed with audio in Alsamixer". Can you clarify?
With that said, my problem did mysteriously fix itself after some update (presumably to alsa). Unfortunately, I noticed it in passing one day while I was changing the volume of something in pavucontrol, so I don't remember the exact update that caused it to work. But yes, my current setup does work now: I can listen to audio through my DAC and use the Yeti for recording. However, I have found that use of the Yeti crashes Google Hangouts, although it works perfectly in every other program I've tried.
As documentation, here is my current working setup (it is very similar to the above): in PulseAudio, the DAC is set to be a Digital Stereo (IEC958) output. The Yeti (called an 'Integrated Rate Matching Hub' in pavucontrol) is set to be an Analog Stereo Input. In the input devices section, I have the Yeti's volume set to around 58% (-14.31 dB), which is past the base volume a fair ways but produces decent levels for recording. The DAC's volume is set to 100% (0dB gain, the DAC takes care of the level). In alsamixer, I have the mic level for the Yeti set to 40.
Edit: This is a long-time-later edit, but let me say that when you have multiple USB audio devices, what USB hub and in what order they are connected seems to matter a great deal. If you can't get your Blue Yeti to work, try moving it to a different set of USB ports (controlled by a different controller) on your motherboard. This magically fixes the issue for me.
Last edited by rwiggins (2014-12-14 00:26:39)

Sound in ALSA but not in WINE

Hello,
I have some trouble activating sound in WINE and hope for your help
I run Arch on a PC with Asus P8H77-M mainboard with onboard sound. Here's some details on the sound device:
lspci -knn
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1e20] (rev 04)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8H77-I Motherboard [1043:8415]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 2: VT1708S Alt Analog [VT1708S Alt Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: VT1708S Digital [VT1708S Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Digital
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=1
HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
I added the the HDMI output as standard output to /etc/asound.conf and also added HDMI_TV for testing purposes:
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 0
device 7
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
device 7
pcm.HDMI_TV {
type hw
card 0
device 7
ctl.HDMI_TV {
type hw
card 0
device 7
When it test the setup with speaker-test -c 2 or speaker-test -D HDMI_TV -c 2 I get some nice pink noise on my speakers
I have a number of Output devices to select from in winecfg, but with none of them I can get any sound out of my speakers:
(System standard)
Out: default
Out: HDA Intel PCH - VT1708S Analog
Out: HDA Intel PCH - VT1708S Digital
Out: HDA Intel PCH - HDMI 0
When I fist started winecfg and selected the Audio tab, I got some pulse related error message (something like "err:pulse:pulse_CallbackContext Connection refused", I don't remember exactly). I have pulseaudio installed (as a dependency of chromium) but it's not active, so I turned to ALSA with winetricks sound=alsa.
Now I don't get the pulse error message anymore, but there is still no sound and when I hit the Test Sound button the first time after starting winecfg, I get the error message "err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded". I have no idea whether this is directly related to my sound problem.
I tried adding HDMI_TV in the registry key ALSAOutputDevices. Now I have one more device to select from, but still no sound
I am running out of ideas what to try next, so if anybody has a hint, please tell me (y)
If you need more information on my hardware or software, please tell me!
As I am somewhat of a newbie with Arch and WINE, you might also have to tell me where to get that information
Thanks & best regards
Lasse
Btw: I installed XBMC and sound output via HDMI works perfectly

Hi, I'm one of Wine's main audio maintainers.
supermariolinux is right that you'll need the 32-bit audio packages. If you're not using PulseAudio, you should only need lib32-alsa-lib. If you are using Pulse, you will also need lib32-alsa-plugins and lib32-libpulse. You can do "pacman -Qi wine" to get a list of optional packages that you may be missing.
You said that you got an error saying, "err:pulse:pulse_CallbackContext Connection refused". This doesn't seem possible if you're using the official Arch Wine package, as Arch doesn't supply the unofficial Pulse audio backend. Are you building Wine yourself? Do you get an errors upon running configure?
The CoInitializeEx message is harmless.
Finally, you can get a debug log which may give you more information about what's happening. There are more instructions for that here: http://wiki.winehq.org/Sound under "What to include when filing a bug." You may find some useful information near lines containing "AudioClient_Initialize". If you upload a log someplace, I can take a look as well.

No sound with alsa on IBM Thinkpad R50e / Intel 82801DB-ICH4

I'm having trouble getting sound working on a new install of Arch on an IBM Thinkpad R50e. Here are some details:
$ sudo pacman -Ss alsa
extra/alsa-firmware 1.0.25-2 [installed]
ALSA firmware package
extra/alsa-lib 1.0.25-1 [installed]
An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
extra/alsa-oss 1.0.25-1
OSS compatibility library
extra/alsa-plugins 1.0.25-2 [installed]
Extra alsa plugins
extra/alsa-utils 1.0.25-3 [installed]
An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
extra/alsaplayer 0.99.81-4
A heavily multi-threaded PCM player that tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit
extra/gnome-alsamixer 0.9.6-4
Gnome ALSA mixer
extra/pulseaudio-alsa 2-1
ALSA Configuration for PulseAudio
community/alsa-tools 1.0.25-1
ALSA tools package
community/balsa 2.4.11-1
An e-mail client for GNOME
community/lash 0.6.0~rc2-6 [installed]
A session management system for JACK and ALSA
$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel 82801DB-ICH4]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
$ cat /etc/asound.conf
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 4
defaults.ctl.card 0
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
options snd_intel8x0 ac97_quirk=1
blacklist snd_intel8x0m
$ mplayer /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
MPlayer SVN-r35014-4.7.1 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
195 audio & 404 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav.
libavformat version 54.15.100 (internal)
Audio only file format detected.
Load subtitles in /usr/share/sounds/alsa/
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 768.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 96000->96000)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 1.1 (01.1) of 1.0 (01.0) 0.1%
Exiting... (End of file)
I followed the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Alsa but I still can't get the sound to work. I get a beep from the pc speaker from the line out and laptop speakers though. I had OSS working which was a bit noisy and I'd rather use alsa anyway. All the alsamixer channels are unmuted except for the external amplifier switch.
Can anyone help?
thanks
James

grizzeledtop wrote:check out
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALSA
I included all the information that I did to show that I've already that wiki entry.

No sound with ALSA and Creative Recon3D

I have been working on this issue for several days now and still cannot get my sound card to work. Basically, I have a Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D sound card installed in a PCI slot and I am unable to play any sound through it. Note that I have the on board sound disabled in the BIOS. Also, it is my understanding that this sound card is supported as of kernel 3.5. I dual boot this system and sound does work on my Windows install. I am certain that I do not have any channels muted and that the sound card is being detected by the kernel.
I have already gone through the relevant troubleshooting steps listed in the following Wiki pages:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … sound_card
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Al … leshooting
As suggested by the above pages, I have tried:
- Setting the default card in /etc/asound.conf
- Setting all instances of "card 0" to "card 2" (which is the ID of the card listed in "aplay -l") in /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf
- Verified the sound modules were loaded
- Double checked to make sure that all channels were unmuted
A couple of interesting things I noticed:
1) Speaker-test fails:
# speaker-test -c 2
speaker-test 1.0.26
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory
2) Here is some more information regarding my sound modules and hardware devices:
# lsmod | grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_hda_codec_ca0132 8244 1
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 24487 1
snd_usb_audio 102808 1
snd_hda_intel 26180 2
snd_usbmidi_lib 18744 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 18479 1 snd_usbmidi_lib
snd_hda_codec 98033 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_ca0132
snd_seq_device 5268 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_hwdep 6300 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 75167 4 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc 7217 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 18934 1 snd_pcm
snd 59989 17 snd_usb_audio,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_ca0132
# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Creative [HDA Creative], device 0: CA0132 Analog [CA0132 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Creative [HDA Creative], device 1: CA0132 Digital [CA0132 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Can anyone help point me in the right direction? This is driving me crazy and I feel like I am just a few steps away from getting this working properly.
One last note, I tried going the PulseAudio route as well, and I was unsuccesful.

I think it's little too late now but i guess i post this for anyone searching for a fix
Recon3d works since few major kernel versions back... but there buffer allocation problem on default configuration (Card sometimes will do random loopy noice while trying to play, which means right sound data going somewhere where it does not suppose to) , it can be fixed by loading snd_hda_intel module with position_fix=1 parameter. For some reason this does not work on udev (or i'm doing something wrong ) so i did script:
rmmod snd_hda_intel
modprobe snd_hda_intel position_fix=1
...and i turn it to systemd service, which starts on boot and it seems to work. There 3 bugs i notice:
1. Sometime card mutes, but when i do sound is soem other application it goes back, i think there init problem or something, this seems to fixed since 3.8
2. On system wake sounds gone sometimes, guess what fix that .... you need to boot Windows and go back to Linux and it works, i think this has soemthing to do with firmware
3. Optical Input does work in Audacity
3.9 inludes firmware loading which should fix lot of problems + support for What U Hear (sound loopback) and digital mic. Hopefully it also fix buffer problem
Last edited by Shadowriver (2013-04-28 20:43:09)

No sound with alsa and integrated Intel sound card, any advice???

I just got a new computer, erased the OEM windows install and installed Arch linux with xfce. I have an Integrated HDA intel sound card with Realtek ALC888 chip
Sound worked just fine in the windows install, so I know the card and speakers work.
I installed alsa and made sure to unmute PCM and Front speakers. Unmuting all of the entries didn't help. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
lsmod|grep '^snd'
snd_seq_oss 35584 0
snd_seq_midi_event 9344 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 58336 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 9364 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_intel 531252 0
snd_pcm_oss 45440 0
snd_mixer_oss 18944 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hwdep 10632 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 82952 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 24720 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 65096 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 11792 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Here is my rc.conf
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
# LOCALIZATION
# LOCALE: Type locale -a to see location listing
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime"
# USEDIRECTISA: use direct I/O requests instead of /dev/rtc for hwclock
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="America/Detroit"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
# HARDWARE
# MOD_AUTOLOAD: Allow autoloading of modules at boot and when needed
# MOD_BLACKLIST: Prevent udev from loading these modules
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
# NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=()
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="yes"
# NETWORKING
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
HOSTNAME="Lychee"
# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
# - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
# - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
# DHCP: Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
# Wireless: See network profiles below
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up. These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
# - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
# - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
# This now requires the netcfg package
#NETWORKS=(main)
# DAEMONS
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond hal fam)
I am going through the wikiarticl on alsa as well, but if anyone can point out what the issue is hear I would greatly appreciate it.

Hmm. I have an onboard Intel sound chipset as well.. I noticed your rc.conf doesn't have "snd-hda-intel" in the MODULES array; make sure you add that.
I never figured out how to read the right side of lsmod's output, so I'll assume that, despite having the snd-hda-intel module, you haven't enabled it yet. Try (as root or through sudo) `modprobe snd-hda-intel`. It may need underscores instead of hyphens; they seem to be interchangeable.

No TV sound - Problem with Pulseaudio and Gnome

Hi Community!
Since January 2013 I got big problems with the sound of my tvcard. The card is a Sundtek Media TV Pro. But after all the problems have nothing to to with the card itself!
So far I found out, that the problem is with Pulseaudio.
- Sound works under Windows on same PC.
- Sound don't work under Arch - not with tvtime, not with vlc, etc.
- Problem occurs even on a new installed system with the Arch-2013-02-01 install medium.
cat /etc/mediasrv.log
[1033] Pulseaudio connect reported an error (6 - Connection refused)
[1033] select error() in audio processor (can be caused because of pulseaudio) (Interrupted system call)
After setting up a new Arch installation with just xorg-server, gnome, tvtime and the sundtek driver from AUR I run journalctl -b:
Feb 10 16:25:15 hightower pulseaudio[636]: [pulseaudio] pid.c:
Daemon already running.
With sudo journalctl | grep 'Feb 10 16:2' I get the following output:
Feb 10 16:25:01 hightower rtkit-daemon[489]: Successfully made thread 488 of process 488 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '120' high priority at nice level -11.
Feb 10 16:25:14 hightower rtkit-daemon[489]: Successfully made thread 606 of process 606 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
Feb 10 16:25:15 hightower rtkit-daemon[489]: Successfully made thread 636 of process 636 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
Feb 10 16:25:15 hightower pulseaudio[636]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Feb 10 16:28:55 hightower pulseaudio[1000]: [pulseaudio] module-jackdbus-detect.c: Unable to contact D-Bus session bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
Feb 10 16:28:55 hightower pulseaudio[1000]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-jackdbus-detect" (argument:""): initialization failed.
Feb 10 16:28:55 hightower pulseaudio[1000]: [pulseaudio] socket-server.c: bind(): Die Adresse wird bereits verwendet
Feb 10 16:28:55 hightower pulseaudio[1000]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-esound-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Feb 10 16:28:55 hightower pulseaudio[1000]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
Feb 10 16:28:55 hightower pulseaudio[1000]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
Feb 10 16:28:55 hightower pulseaudio[1000]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Konnte Daemon nicht initialisieren.
Feb 10 16:28:55 hightower pulseaudio[997]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Start des Daemons fehlgeschlagen.
So, if I understand right, pulseaudio is alreade started by the rtkit-daemon and gnome couldn't start it again.
At https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30926 I found a hint concerning /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop and /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio-kde.desktop.
After removing them from /etc/xdg/autostart and running journalctl -b there are no more errors.
With sudo journalctl | grep 'pulseaudio' I get:
sudo journalctl | grep 'Feb 10 17:4' | grep 'pulse*'
Feb 10 17:41:42 hightower rtkit-daemon[485]: Successfully made thread 484 of process 484 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '120' high priority at nice level -11.
Feb 10 17:41:55 hightower rtkit-daemon[485]: Successfully made thread 625 of process 625 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
In my opinion all looks ok! I also checked the channels with the alsamixer and it looks good, too.
So I ran vlc v4l2://:dev=/dev/video0:width=720:height=576:tuner-frequency=510750:adev=/dev/null:standard=255 - but still no sound.
With cat /var/log/mediasrv.log I checked the drivers logfile:
2013-02-10 17:48:55 [343] SETTING DVB-C
2013-02-10 17:48:55 [343] switching to analog TV
2013-02-10 17:48:56 [343] SETTING PAL/SECAM
2013-02-10 17:48:58 [343] invalid audio input selected: 2
2013-02-10 17:48:58 [343] Setting frequency: 510750000
2013-02-10 17:48:58 [343] Using settings for Europe
2013-02-10 17:48:58 [343] Set Pixelformat: 0 YUV 4:2:2 (YUYV)
2013-02-10 17:48:58 [1033] Starting audio processor (PID 1033)
2013-02-10 17:48:58 [1033] initializing audio in audio processor
2013-02-10 17:48:58 [1033] loaded local pulseaudio driver
2013-02-10 17:48:58 [1033] select error() in audio processor (can be caused because of pulseaudio) (Interrupted system call)
2013-02-10 17:48:59 [1033] Pulseaudio connect reported an error (6 - Connection refused)
2013-02-10 17:48:59 [1033] select error() in audio processor (can be caused because of pulseaudio) (Interrupted system call)
2013-02-10 17:48:59 [1033] Pulseaudio connect reported an error (6 - Connection refused)
I started tvtime again. This time I ran rm -rf ~/.config/pulse/ and killall pulseaudio to kill the Pulseaudio server. I instantly got a loud noise out of my speakers.
I closed tvtime and re-opened it. And there it was: TV SOUND OUT OF MY SPEAKERS!
But now, when I run pavucontrol I get:
Connection to PulseAudio failed. Automatic retry in 5s.
In this cas this is likely because PULSE_SERVER in the Environment/X11 root Windows Properties or default-server in client.conf is misconfigured.
This situation can also arrise when PulseAudio crashed and left stale details in the X11 Root Windows.
If this is the case, then PuseAudio should autospawn again, or if this is not configured you sould run start-pulseaudio-x11 manually.
I got the information from Sundtek, that Pulseaudio should not be started as system service. Instead, every user should have an own Pulseaudio daemon and that PA was concepted this way. But they don't know how it is implemented in ArchLinux.
I also don't know it exactly. So the question to all you ArchLinu pro's:
How is PA implemented in Arch? And how can I sustainable solve my problem?
Thank you for your time and help!
Durag

There is just one more thing I found out.
After logging into Gnome and running ps aux | grep pulse I get:
rebel 727 0.7 0.2 444316 10288 ? S<l 03:02 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
rebel 731 0.0 0.0 71236 2652 ? S 03:02 0:00 /usr/lib/pulse/gconf-helper
rebel 843 0.0 0.0 17396 1184 pts/0 D+ 03:03 0:00 grep pulse
To get the sound to work I run:
rm -rf .config/pulse/
killall pulseaudio
killall -9 pulseaudio
I again run ps aux | grep pulse
rebel 4016 4.2 0.2 510124 11528 ? Sl 03:06 0:02 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
rebel 4020 0.0 0.0 71368 2700 ? S 03:06 0:00 /usr/lib/pulse/gconf-helper
rebel 4046 0.0 0.0 19456 1216 pts/0 R+ 03:07 0:00 grep pulse
I can recognize that the STATs have changed. Maybe this can help to solve the problem?

Sound problems, ALSA can't find sound card at boot

Sometimes, my sound randomly drops out, and I can't get it back until I reboot. Even when I reboot, 1/20 times, it will not be back.
When I watch stuff on youtube, sometimes the sound just drops out. Nothing gets muted. My audio player can't produce sound.
If I do
lsmod | grep snd
I'll see the some output.
When I reboot and try to play music from Quodlibet, I'll get an error like this:
Output Error
GStreamer output pipeline could not be initialized. The pipeline might be invalid, or the device may be in use. Check the player preferences.
"lsmod | grep snd" will have NO output and when I try to start alsamixer:
[xz@gestalt ~]$ alsamixer
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory
I can't figure out what's going on, and googling has just led me to various not-completely-related posts on this board... what could be the problem?
EDIT: A few more things to note--
I have alsa in my daemons list in rc.conf
I'm part of the "audio" groups.
soundcore is not blacklisted
Last edited by brokengestalt (2012-08-29 09:10:59)

If I try
[xz@gestalt ~]$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 RAM memory [0500]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller [10de:0547] (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge [0601]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 ISA Bridge [10de:0548] (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus [0c05]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 SMBus [10de:0542] (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory [0500]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller [10de:0541] (rev a2)
00:01.3 Co-processor [0b40]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 Co-processor [10de:0543] (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB controller [0c03]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller [10de:055e] (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB controller [0c03]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller [10de:055f] (rev a2)
00:04.0 USB controller [0c03]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller [10de:055e] (rev a2)
00:04.1 USB controller [0c03]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller [10de:055f] (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface [0101]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 IDE Controller [10de:0560] (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge [0604]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 PCI Bridge [10de:0561] (rev a2)
00:09.0 IDE interface [0101]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 AHCI Controller [10de:0550] (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 Ethernet [10de:054c] (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge [10de:0563] (rev a2)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge [10de:0563] (rev a2)
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C67 [GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M] [10de:0531] (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
02:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 05)
02:05.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 22)
02:05.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 12)
02:05.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 12)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:001c] (rev 01)
Audio devices aren't even mentioned. I noticed when I tried to boot up that I get an error like "sound card not detected." Why would arch suddenly not be able to find a soundcard? It looks like it almost has nothing to do with my ALSA configuration, and has more to do with my sound card not being found at all in the first place....

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