KDE broke my sound

So I had my box configured beautifully, I was using X with Xmonad and decided to try out KDE4. So I install it and run it, everything good. So I decdide I like Xmonad, and switch back now I have no sound from any apps, tried walking through the wiki alsa config steps still not working.
Help?!?!?

Nevermind, solved it by reinstalling the kernel and even got my new sound card to work without compiling custom drivers Just by installing asoundconf from AUR and configuring it to prefer my DX instead of the integrated. Thinking about updating the wiki on this front, since the ALSA article right now doesn't mention anything about multiple sound cards.
Is there any other easy way to select sound card?

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Kde control center sound i/o method

I just installed arch 0.5, and had some problems getting ALSA set up. After reading through this forum and several others, I managed to get it set up properly (I think).
However, when I go to the KDE control center>>sound>>sound i/o, I don't see an option for ALSA. When I had Mandrake 9.1 installed, it was there.
Do I have to do something special to get the ALSA option to show up? Do others out there running Arch have that option? I added the alsa drivers to modules.conf and do see them when I run lsmod. Is there something else I need to do to use alsa in KDE?
Thanks!

no i dont think so ... my modules.conf-sound-part looks like this:
#### SOUND #####
# the specific part:
snd_index=0
options snd snd_cards_limit=1 snd_major=116
alias snd-card-0 i810_audio
# and some things for the general sound support:
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-11 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
i'm using the "i810_audio" module, as oyu can see ... and with this OSS works for me --- adapt this for you --- and in the KDE-aRTs-dialog(the one in the control center) just select "Autodetect"
-> one more thing: be sure you have access to /dev/dsp (either chmod in /eth/rc.local or make a usergroup sound that owns it)

KDE makes farting sound on scroll

This is the most wierd error i have encountered. I am using kde from official repos, with gstreamer backend for sound. This error started recently.
I was browsing youtube and such. Noticed my volume was muted, so unmuted it. Then i notice that when i scroll inside firefox or drag a window around the screen a wierd buzzing noise occurs. Best i can describe it like a farting sound.
I am not joking... got no idea what i did do to get this. Have anyone else encountered something like this? Can i fix it somehow?

I did a quick Internet search. The buzzing sound might be related to your video card.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=143435
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-Th … d-p/633661
This would explain why you hear the buzzing sound in KDE (which uses accelerated or "3D" graphics) but you don't hear it in something like Openbox. Is that the case?
If you only hear it when scrolling in Firefox, does disabling "Smooth scrolling" (graphics acceleration) help?
What is a "stationary computer"? What hardware / video card are you using? Is it a desktop or laptop?
Last edited by drcouzelis (2013-11-12 21:12:50)

Whoa, 10.5.1 Broke my sound

I don't know what happened but I should never jump up unless I'm fixing a previous problem. Now my sound won't work. Buggy and Quirky best explain it. I'm looking into downgrading. I'm running a Powerbook 867.

wellcrafted wrote:
I don't know what happened but I should never jump up unless I'm fixing a previous problem.
Actually you should never jump up if you have a previous problem -
Now my sound won't work. Buggy and Quirky best explain it. I'm looking into downgrading. I'm running a Powerbook 867.
Can you describe the situation? My sound is the same as in Tiger on all my upgrades.
You do know that your powerbook is at the bottom of the specs, but I don't think that would be the problem.
Message was edited by: nerowolfe

[Solved] I broke my sound

I have an ASUS G50Vt laptop. I've been trying to get my headphone jack to work, so I've been editing "/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf" and "/etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf," trying out a few options. Somewhere along the line, I messed up so that ALSA doesn't recognize my sound card. I lost all sound, including sound from my built-in speakers. Anyone have any ideas as to how I can get it back, or start over?
Here's some information that might interest you:
[tom@lappy ~]$ lspci |grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
[tom@lappy ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---
[tom@lappy ~]$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
[tom@lappy ~]$ ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_hda_codec -> ../../snd_hda_codec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_hwdep -> ../../snd_hwdep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_mixer_oss -> ../../snd_mixer_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_pcm -> ../../snd_pcm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_pcm_oss -> ../../snd_pcm_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_seq -> ../../snd_seq
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_seq_device -> ../../snd_seq_device
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_seq_oss -> ../../snd_seq_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_timer -> ../../snd_timer
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by jboons (2010-09-28 05:34:52)

You mentioned editing 2 files but don't say what you did, nor do you post their current contents. Revert your changes and see what happens.

Broke my sound, can't find soundcard now? [SOLVED]

Hi,
I'm having some trouble with my sound and it's escalated to the level where I'm not sure if my soundcard is even detected.
The story so far: A few months ago I invested in a Xonar DX sound card and some days ago tried to make it work in an existing Arch installation. I wasn't sure precisely what to do, so I followed the installation guide here (http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index. … e-virtuoso) to the letter and, hey, it worked so I was happy. I hadn't uninstalled my previous ALSA config or anything like that though, just wanted to get it working really.
Yesterday, I assume after the latest kernel update, the DX stopped working but my integrated Realtek still worked. Today I tried fixing it by first following those steps again, but that resulted in no sound card working. So I uninstalled everything ('make uninstall' in the src folders for the custom installed drivers, 'pacman -Rd' for alsa-lib, alsa-utils and alsa-oss, 'd' so I woulnd't have to uninstall every library depending on ALSA) and started from the beginning. Now I can't even get my integrated card working again.
lsmod|grep '^snd'
outputs nothing.
/dev/snd/
doesn't exist.
modprobe snd-virtuoso
gives "No such file or directory"
So, what should I do next? Will be grateful for any help I can get.
Thanks!
Petter Johansson
Last edited by peak_performance (2009-05-11 21:06:55)

Nevermind, solved it by reinstalling the kernel and even got my new sound card to work without compiling custom drivers Just by installing asoundconf from AUR and configuring it to prefer my DX instead of the integrated. Thinking about updating the wiki on this front, since the ALSA article right now doesn't mention anything about multiple sound cards.
Is there any other easy way to select sound card?

[Solved] kernel26 2.6.38.7-1 broke my sound (ICE1712)

lspci:
03:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)
After an update, I have no sound. I'm not doing anything dumb like not setting a default sound card or testing it with my levels muted. Is there anything I could try short of filing a bug report?
Last edited by synthead (2011-05-30 23:37:43)

A-ha! It was the "Multi Track Internal Clock" parameter. It was set to "IEC958 Input", an external clock source, which was not connected. I had to set it to "96000" and my audio came right to life. Damn, I had the feeling something like this was the case. So it was me being dumb after all
This is on a high-end audio production card with 10 inputs, 10 outputs, XLR, SPDIF, word clock routing, MIDI, etc. The setting it was on made my card wait for a clock to set the frequency (which it never got), so ... no sound. Just a small change in the kernel update, no sweat

[SOLVED] "alsaconf" broke my sound.

Hi, I've been having problems some strange background noises for a while, so I did a quick search and found this thread, which to my knowledge fixed the problem. So, I rebooted and the noises were still there, then I checked out the ALSA Arch wiki and read the configuration section. Realising what I may have just done I tested my sound only to find I had killed it.
As far as I know it has broken udev and modprobe.conf (which for some reason is empty). I tried to solve the problem myself but I'm feeling a little lost and a little out of my depth.
Can anyone please help?
Last edited by guriinii (2011-05-12 10:19:58)

'vmlinuz26-lts' worked. I get no background noise until udev starts up, same as before. This is my output for lspci:
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE] (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
04:07.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)

I broke my sound...

Hi everyone!
You are my last resort (the first one being google). I have arch installed in an ASUS laptop and I was trying to solve the cannot-play-two-sounds-simultaneously issue. During the process I removed the ~/.pulse folder and I may have changed the asound.conf file and any other configuration file the internet may mention.
I ended up with what looked like the correct configuration but no sound at all. I then tried reinstalling pulseaudio but now I get this error message whenever I try to open pavucontrol or pulseaudio:
[federico@chacoo ~]$ pavucontrol
pavucontrol: error while loading shared libraries: libjson-c.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Just in case:
[federico@chacoo ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC269VB Digital [ALC269VB Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
It seems that I only have sound through laptop speakers in flash videos. Weird.
[federico@chacoo ~]$ cat /etc/asound.conf
# Use PulseAudio by default
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:
Thanks in advanced for your help
Last edited by Barbalras (2013-07-12 17:42:21)

I exaggerated it a little bit... I did follow the wikis but this is my current state: no sound and pulseaudio giving the above errors
I reinstalled it with pacman -Rs and then pacman -S
Last edited by Barbalras (2013-07-12 21:06:06)

Software Update Broke All Sound Playback

I just ran software update last night. Today I turn on my Mac and there is no sound from any applications. It's not the volume sliders, they are all fine (and enabled, not grayed out). There is no red light inside my headphone jack. Pretty much everything seems fine, but there is no sound.
How can I roll back these system updates? Or fix the problem? This is really lame...

I just fixed it and here is how I did it.
I went to Applications -> Utilities -> Audio MIDI Setup
Open the Audio Devices window if it didn't open automatically. (Window -> Show Audio Window)
Some application had set my default output of audio to Soundflower (16ch). What I did to fix the issue was to click on Built-in Output, then to click the gear at the bottom of the screen and select:
"Use this device for sound output"
and
"Play alerts and sound effects through this device"
That worked for me! Hope it helps someone else.

[SOLVED]Sound not working in simple user account KDE

Yesterday i did fresh install of Arch with the new snapshot 2010.05 , after installation I did pacman -Syu and then installed xorg and finally KDE . I did the minimal installation of KDE i.e is kdebase-workspace and kdebase-konsole and kdebase-dolphin . As it was suggested in Wiki I installed gstreamer10.0-plugins and phonon-xine and in the multimedia setup i have already preffered default option above all as it was also suggested in wiki but I still cant hear any sound in the normal user account of kde . My sound card is VIA VT1708B 8-CH .
Sound is working perfectly in gnome and xfce . It is also working fine in Kubuntu , Opensuse(KDE) . Its just dont work in Arch linux if I install KDE .
If somebody have solution of this problem please help , i really want to use KDE in arch linux . If you guys need any additional information then please tell me.
Thanks .
Last edited by harbhag (2010-05-23 09:14:49)

Also you mentioned it worked in Gnome and XFCE but you didn't say which distro; if you meant Gnome and XFCE in Arch then disregard my next sentence. Did you configure ALSA during the Arch install? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#Part_III:_Install_X_and_configure_ALSA

No sound except Flash, volume control doesn't work for that.

My sound seems to be cursed. Everything else works fine for me, but in the few years I've been using Arch I've been plagued by constant sound problems. Apparently something in a recent update broke my sound. I get no sound for anything but Flash, except Flash sound is SUPER LOUD, and doesn't adjust with the volume control. Everything else, there's just no sound. Not in VLC, Amarok, Battle for Wesnoth, or other various programs I tried. I tried VLC using the default sound output, the pulse output, and even the ALSA output just for the heck of it. No dice. I was reading in another similar topic that KDE might be the culprit, and indeed I'm using Pulse and KDE. My asound.conf is the default one that comes with the pulseaudio-alsa package. I've tried both gstreamer and xine as backends, they both have the same problem. In pavucontrol, it looks like sound is playing. If I play music or a test sound, the sound bar moves, but you still can't hear anything.
Now here's where it gets weird. Selecting a device within Phonon is screwy. In the output section, the devices listed are as follows. All but the top one are grayed out.
Internal Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958)
Internal Audio Digital Stereo
Dummy Output
Internal Audio Analog Surround 4.1
Internal Audio Analog Surround 4.0
Now, in the audio capture section, the devices are different.
Internal Audio Analog Stereo
NVidia CK804 with ALC655 (NVidia CK804)
NVidia CK804 with ALC655 (NVidia CK804 - MIC ADC)
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In that list, pulse is greyed out. Are they supposed to be different like that?
In any case... I'm at a bit of a loss. I just can't seem to keep the sound working on this thing. Any ideas?

I think I encountered the sound problem too. I'm using a thinkpad T42, installed gnome, using ALSA. Normally I just enter runlevel 3 into the console, I have ALSA configed and the soundcard is well recognized. But when I play .mp3 using mpg123, everything goes fine but just no sound output (I setted up alsamixer previously, and had all necessary channels unmuted.). That goes several days. And one day, after setting up alsamixer, I also did a alsactl -f /var/lib/alsa/asound.status store, miracle the sound is there. But the day after, the sound disappeared again. Now I'm totally lost, leaving me thinking whether it's a Arch sound bug?
By the way, my system is most updated and upgraded.
Last edited by universalpoe (2011-01-12 01:57:42)

I cannot get a sound to play on arrival of new mail, default or custom.

I am running on a Linux box under CentOS 5.10. If I select a .wav file in a file browser screen it plays just fine. The same file is silent when used as a custom mail arrival sound. The default sound also does not play. As far as I know I have set up the sound selection in the General tab correctly. In an earlier version of Thunderbird the sound worked fine. My current version of T'bird is 24.7.0. How do I fix this problem?

"was it the same sound file...."
No. I picked another .wav file that sounds like the horn used for horse races.
"Thunderbird has a limit on the sample rate. is 16khz"
I have no idea how to determine this for the .wav file I selected. I know that the file plays when I select the file in the file manager screen, so I know that the default audio player handles it; similarly, if I open noatun and specify that .wav file to be played, it plays fine.
"Using KDE? Is the file the KDE default mail sound?"
No. I am running gnome, I believe, though the KDE programs that I invoke (such as games) run well also. I really do not know what the default mail sound is, as it has never played on this computer despite my efforts to get SOME kind of audible indication that email has arrived. On an older machine with an older kernel and an older Thunderbird I was able to get the default sound and substitute one I liked better.

KDE, aRts, and the recent flac update

Good morning,
I am running kde 3.3.1. No issues. I performed a pacman -Syu recently, and the flac package was updated.
At this point, I lost my sound, specifically aRts is not running in KDE. So KDE native apps that use aRts, such as noatun, and the KDE sounds that are specific to KDE events, do not work now.
The sound system (alsa) is still working though. Non-KDE apps generate sound perfectly, even when launched from within KDE. Last night I watched "The Day After Tomorrow" with xine, ...no sound issues. But KDE is voiceless.
Checked the obvious such as sound settings, mute, ran alsamixer in a console and verified that something wasn't muted, and verified that my default levels had not been misadjusted...
Thinking I had a system problem, I started gnome (2.8). It has it's own system sounds with no issues, so my problem appears to be KDE specific.
Any ideas anyone?
Dave..........

Gentlemen,
Sorry for being so late to chime but I've been busy trying to skull out XML all day and haven't had a chance to check the forum before this.
I did the upgrade last night but didn't notice the problem with the KDE system sounds till I read this thread (I'm now using XFce 95% of the time). Like the rest xmms and other sound apps work - just no system sounds. Everything else appears to running peachy...:)
Lee

KDE does no longer start - DBUS error - Awesome WM related problem

Hi,
so I somehow managed to screw my KDE. I can no longer log in as my standard user, when I enter my username & password into the login-manager, the start process ends with a Window showing 'Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus?'. When I press ok, I land back in the log-in screen.
The following is the content of ~/.xsession-errors:
/usr/bin/startkde: line 22: /usr/share/config/kdm/kde4-config: No such file or directory
Agent pid 2157
startkde: Starting up...
startkde: Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus?
and at the end of the /var/log/kdm.log:
klauncher(2188) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found. Check if you have started the DBUS server.
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
kdmgreet(2182)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): KSystemTimeZones: ktimezoned initialize() D-Bus call failed: "Not connected to D-Bus server"
kdmgreet(2182)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): No time zone information obtained from ktimezoned
Strange thing is, Dbus is running, so that should not be the problem.
So, I have asked around in the IRC channel, and was advised to move my .kde4 config, so that kde would create a new one. That did unfortunately nothing, the same problem persists. So then I created a new user for testing and voila, KDE starts under this user with the generated configs (even with the configs from the old user, though he wants to start everything as the old one and that causes problems).
Now my question is, what could be causing the problems? Dbus is surely running, as I can log in as the new testing-user, it also shows up in the process list, when I am logged in. Unfortunately it does not start up when I try to log in as the old user, and hence I can't start KDE. I was told, I could just delete the old user and create a new one to solve this issue, but I would like to avoid that.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
EDIT: Apparently the problem is related to awesome, after installing awesome, KDE seems to break after awesome is installed for every present user on the system. See also post #4.
Last edited by Defolos (2013-05-23 07:48:09)

berbae wrote:
Defolos wrote:So I just though about what happened before KDE died, and I remembered that I installed awesome, logged in, logged out and after that KDE was broken.
What happens if you reboot after uninstalling awesome, instead of just log out/log in? Does kde work again then?
Nope, did that immediately after KDE broke. Rebooted actually several times without awesome installed and it didn't help.
berbae wrote:You didn't say how you launched awesome: from kdm or from console or other way?
It is started from kdm.
berbae wrote:Say also if you have the systemd kdm.service enabled.
Cant tell you that right now, don't have the machine at work. Will check that later.
berbae wrote:
Look what processes are running (especially the dbus-daemon and xorg related processes):
before any WM/DE is launched,
when awesome is launched and running,
when you log out from awesome,
when you log in again, trying to launch kde
Use tty2 to check for the processes, when you don't have a command prompt (ctrl-alt-F2).
Only by searching you could find a clue for the possible cause of the problem; it will be the learning way.
As far as I remember it, dbus-daemon is launched when the system boots up. When I log in as a new user (hence with working KDE) it automatically starts another dbus process for kde as the new user. If i try that as the old (broken KDE) user, no dbus is started (and hence the problem).
berbae wrote:...Or take the easy way: just use a new user and don't install awesome again if you don't want to use it!
That was already suggested by some people in irc. I would like to avoid that because of two reasons:
first, I find this very unclean and ugly, I would like to fix the problem at its root
and second, I am afraid, that I might break the permissions in my whole home directory and nothing works anymore.
What I am currently suspecting is that when I install awesome (and probably also log in) it runs some script that configures dbus per-user and that breaks compatibility with KDE. Could you imagine something like that?

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