[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)

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snd_hda_codec_realtek 40772 1
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crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Dec 1 19:31 controlC1
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crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Dec 1 19:31 hwC1D2
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crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Dec 1 19:31 pcmC0D7p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Dec 1 19:31 pcmC0D8p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Dec 1 19:31 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Dec 1 19:31 pcmC1D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Dec 1 19:31 pcmC1D1c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Dec 1 19:31 pcmC1D1p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Dec 1 19:31 pcmC1D2c
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*edit*
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Last edited by Proinsias (2013-12-03 23:22:48)

Solved, not sure where I was going wrong in my initial attempts but a simple .asoundrc has my speakers singing. Could have sworn this was tried to death in the first half hour or so, oh well.
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pcm.!default {
type hw
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ctl.!default {
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[solved] Who broke vdpau? :P

One of the last upgrade broke my vdpau playback with (s)mplayer..nvidia I'm looking at you! Anyone else?
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
[h264_vdpau @ 0x1015400]Missing reference picture, default is 0
[h264_vdpau @ 0x1015400]decode_slice_header error
[h264_vdpau @ 0x1015400]reference picture missing during reorder
[h264_vdpau @ 0x1015400]Missing reference picture, default is 65538
[h264_vdpau @ 0x1015400]reference picture missing during reorder
[h264_vdpau @ 0x1015400]Missing reference picture, default is 65542
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_block_until_surface_idle: An invalid handle value was provided.
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_block_until_surface_idle: An invalid handle value was provided.
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_display: An invalid handle value was provided.
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_block_until_surface_idle: An invalid handle value was provided.
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_display: An invalid handle value was provided.
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_block_until_surface_idle: An invalid handle value was provided.
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_display: An invalid handle value was provided.
and so on...
Last edited by mangus (2013-02-10 09:19:35)

thanks,so I'll look deeply into that..I haven't touched anything related though..
Is (s)mplayer2 raccomended nowadays?
edit [solved]:
Apparently I had somehow "option DamageEvents" set to false in xorg configuration and that broke vdpau. Classic pebkac.
Allan is safe for now
Last edited by mangus (2013-02-10 09:26:37)

[SOLVED][KDE4]Only system sounds will play

I'm not sure if this belongs here or in the DE section, so please move it if you see fit.
I'm having a bit of a tricky issue with KDE, all the system sounds will play, but nothing else. I'm currently using the gstreamer phonon backend with ALSA. I've seen some forum posts from the gentoo wiki with similar problems but it seems it was just a mixed mess of deleting .folders and other configuration files. I've also tried to use the VLC phonon backend but to no avail either. I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem and has a coherent solution.
So far I've tested playing audio files in VLC and videos on youtube. My alsa device is fully configured and will play audio, just not output from programs that are not part of the plasma environment. I have also looked to the wiki for a solution but it only seems like it has solutions for audio conflict problems, which is all sorted out for me.
Last edited by jjsullivan (2011-05-25 04:22:50)

i recently had a gstreamer issue that i solved today as well. run a pacman -Ss gstreamer0.10 to see which packages you have installed. you might need to install the gstreamer0.10-plugins group of packages, as i did.
this might be completely different from what i went through, since i'm not using phonon or kde, but it's worth a shot. worst case scenario is you uninstall the extra packages afterwards.
another option to try (which didn't help me, but was a solution for SOMEONE i found through my searches) was to compile and reinstall a fresh version of the gstreamer0.10 package. abs makes it so simple to do, it's also worth trying.

[SOLVED] "alsaconf" broke my sound.

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