[SOLVED] Disabling "dry" signal (ALSA or JACK)

I'm using VirtualBox to run FL Studio in a virtual Windows box. The problem (ok, not so much of a problem, but an annoyance) is, that I can't seem to find a way to disable the "dry" microphone signal. Probably you don't understand what I mean, so I'll give an example: when using a vocoder type effect, you can still hear the original, unaltered voice "under" the übercool Kraftwerk robot voice, and that is just lame. Still trying to make it clearer: what I'm trying to achieve is the microphone not going straight to the speakers. So, are there any Linux audio gurus out there who can help me?
P.S. Yes, it's a Linux problem, not Windows or VirtualBox one, since I can hear the voice even when VB isn't running.
Last edited by kamiheku (2009-05-24 07:54:35)

Oh, dang, man... Now I'm embarrassed! That truly was quite obvious, maybe it was too obvious! Thanks. This one is now [SOLVED]

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└┼─$─┤▶ pulseaudio -k; pulseaudio -vvvvv
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process
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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
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D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts disabled.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is a3af3988434b49f3b8af2ab66eba685b.
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I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-5.0/modules.
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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
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D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry1
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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
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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: "").
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
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Hi there,
I have some trouble getting 5.1 audio working in Arch.
In Ubuntu I used to use the instructions here to make my card output surround sound (which means that the back speakers play the back sounds in an AC3 audio stream etc).
My problem in Arch seems to be that the output "device" ALSA uses for 5.1 output does not work. For example when I type:
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Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels
WAV file(s)
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
while it should output:
[afonic@afonic-arch ~]$ speaker-test -c6 -l1 -twav
speaker-test 1.0.14
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels
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Buffer size range from 2048 to 16384
Period size range from 1024 to 1024
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Periods = 4
was set period_size = 1024
was set buffer_size = 16384
0 - Front Left
4 - Center
1 - Front Right
In Ubuntu this results in playing just from 4 speakers, until I do the hack mentioned above when all 6 work. Of course I cannot do this hack without surround51.
I've checked my settings and I have the latest version of alsa-libs.
Here are some useful outputs:
[afonic@afonic-arch ~]$ lsmod|grep '^snd'
snd_seq_oss 29312 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6528 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 46672 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 6924 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_intel8x0 28700 3
snd_ac97_codec 95652 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 37024 0
snd_pcm 69124 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 19332 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 7816 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss 14592 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd 45028 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
[afonic@afonic-arch ~]$ aplay -L
default:CARD=CK804
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
Any ideas?
Last edited by afonic (2007-09-13 08:13:02)

Solved.
Some Gnome setting was the problem (System -> Prefs -> Sound > Disable ESD).
Now not only it works but I have native 5.1 (!) without the need to use that 51to40 hack!

[SOLVED] Audio problems with alsa!

I have an Asus z87-k and i conected a soundbox on the audio card, in the green conector (that is the out) and i cant have any sound playing.
An screenshot from my alsamixer https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1358x … 6/7lsr.png
I checked everithing twice and anithing solved, i`ll be online to give any other information!
Last edited by henriqueleng (2014-02-22 04:31:18)

Lets continue the post!
I don't have any file in /etc/asound.conf., and i dont know where it can be!
I'm trying to configure alsa without any other server (pulseaudio, jack,...).
My lspci output have two audio devices, i think that is one of hdmi:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 06)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
---- 00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI (rev 05)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2 (rev 05)
----- 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d5)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev d5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d5)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Z87 Express LPC Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11)
04:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge (rev 03)
I read in another forum that is because my hdmi as set as default. In Arch wiki, they say that i need to edit alsa-base.conf archive, but my pc dont have it too. I too read that how im using two devices that are using same module, edit alsa-base.conf dont will help.
Aplay -l Show me
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC887-VD Digital [ALC887-VD Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Please help!

(Solved)Help setting up ALSA to mix multiple sources to one output

Hey everyone,
I've been putting off fixing this for a while, since getting the sound working was giving me trouble from the beginning. I'm still a bit of a noob when it comes to configuring ALSA and how the system works in general, so sorry if I miss something obvious or need something explained to me >.> As it has been I can only output audio with one program at a time, and I'd like to fix that now. Some quick research told me that I should use dmix, and adding this to /etc/asound.comf would enable it:
pcm.dsp {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix"
And I can verify that this pcm works with speaker-test -Dpcm.dsp -c 2. However, I'm not sure that programs are actually using it, since I still can't use audio with more than one program. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be listed in the output of aplay -L, but it isn't there.
There's another issue I noticed in my experiments. To get the sound working before, I had to override pcm.default to type hw, card 0, device 0. In my research and fiddling around, I noticed that in alsa.conf card 0 and device 0 are set to the defaults, and those are the ones I need to use. However, I can't remove the override since the default pcm generated by default.conf doesn't work for some reason. Also, this overridden default won't show up in aplay -L's output, or as an option in programs that have a similar list of pcm's as output device options (like vlc, or kmix).
Sorry if this sounds weird, I'm still not 100% sure what is going on here. Let me know if you need more info from me, need the output from some program, etc.
Edit: Well I found a solution. This in asound.conf:
pcm.!display {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix"
hint {
show on
description "dmix default"
Sets the dmix pcm as default, and shows it with a description. Still don't know why the generated default pcm doesn't work, but I guess it doesn't matter.
Last edited by Zixiken (2015-01-17 07:51:32)

rg_arc:
I receive the following
00:19.0 Ethernet controler: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev o2)
11:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
however, as stated in my edit on post 1, i tried
ip link set eth0 up
and my static i set during set-up remained, from here i grabbed the BC43 package from AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21690
rebooted and now wireless is working.
Thanks for the help RG I guess if i would have waited a bit i coulda solved it without a post, but the quick response makes me satisfied in chosing Arch as my distro !

[SOLVED]No sound with ALSA. I'm looking for help with troubleshooting.

Hi!
Recently I bought a new laptop (HP Probook 450 G1). For some reason I can't hear sound from the laptop's speaker or headphones. I already read the troubleshooting guide on wiki. Unfortunately none of the solutions described on the wiki helped. I'm not using PulseAudio and I'm out of ideas.
Additional information:
Alsamixer screenshot.
~ lsmod |grep snd
snd_hda_codec_realtek 54803 1
snd_hda_codec_generic 56366 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 40396 1
snd_hda_intel 22831 6
snd_hda_controller 22975 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec 104665 5 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_hwdep 6652 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 83207 6 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_timer 19294 3 snd_pcm
snd 61276 16 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
soundcore 5551 2 snd,snd_hda_codec
~ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
~ speaker-test
speaker-test 1.0.28
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 2048 to 16384
Period size range from 1024 to 1024
Using max buffer size 16384
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 1024
was set buffer_size = 16384
0 - Front Left
Time per period = 2.651060
0 - Front Left
lspci |grep Audio
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5700 Series]
~ cat /proc/asound/cards
cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
HDA ATI SB at 0xfe024000 irq 16
1 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfdffc000 irq 43
Last edited by Skitter (2014-09-01 06:22:30)

brebs wrote:
emeres wrote:Why disable a card?
So that the right output becomes the all-important *default* output. And it's conveniently a simple one-liner.
I am very aware of that, why not use index instead? It is as convenient as enable. Why leave the user with a disabled device, when it can continue to work? I consider this highly inefficient, because it does not solve the actual issue and creates a potential problem in the future.
In this case, user interaction was the cause, so it does not matter.
Edit: Typo.
Last edited by emeres (2014-08-29 17:45:29)

Mic get's disabled when 3.5mm output jack (non-headphones) is plugged in?

I have a strange problem. When I am using headphones the Mic that is built into the system works FINE. However when I start outputing with a 3.5 mm to red/white composite to my sound system, the Mic stops working. On my T61p the mic/speaker jacks were separate, and I could output audio to my sound system for playing Left 4 Dead 2 and still use the Mic that is built in to talk to the other players. Now when I have my awesome surround sound rocking, the Mic is no longer an option. THIS SUCKS. Does anyone know a way I can force the Mic to stay enabled?

I assume this is on the new T410/T510 with the combined jack?
You can try this if your on Windows 7.
Control Panel
Show all icons
Find SMART AUDIO icon and dobule click
One of the tabs has an options for CLASSIC or MULTISTREAM
Change it to MULTISTREAM
Go back to Control Panel
Open Sound Properties
On playback and recording tabs right click to SHOW DISABLED DEVICES
That should separate all the jacks and options into separate jack that you can control, set as default or disable. Just plug in your heading, swithc to the MIC tab and then set the internal as the default. Should do the trick.

[SOLVED] Google Earth signal 11 again

I'm getting the now infamous 'signal 11' error when trying to run Google Earth.
I've tried the suggestions in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=114992 with no luck and also reinstalling GE and all its dependencies.
Does anyone have any more ideas I can try?
System is i686 with nvidia graphics. Crash log is at http://pastebin.com/W4X4AgXd
Many thanks,
David Shaw
Last edited by dtmc (2013-01-02 22:28:37)

I was caught out by "GE has caught signal 11" a couple of days ago (using nouveau driver with nvidia hardware). I don't have any .drirc or dri file (as mentioned in old thread 114992). However, I copied librarian.launchpad.net/7037027/libGL.so.1 into the directory /opt/google/earth/free/, and this got GE working, although the video quality wasn't so good. Then I installed ia32-libs in my copy of debian in virtualbox, then copied /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2 from there, as libGL.so.1, back to arch to replace the one from launchpad.net. GE is now working perfectly.
I don't really understand any of the above. This is my 2nd installation, on a separate drive, but otherwise using the same hardware as the first, which was done using the official media. This one is from releng.archlinux.org, 2012/04/10_04, netinstall, x86_64. On the first, I couldn't get alsa to work and had to use oss for sound. With this one, alsa worked out the box, which is very nice. However, in addition to this google earth thing, I had significant trouble configuring an automatic wireless connection, and a problem with my samba server.
Oops - I had failed to install lib32-nouveau-dri !!!
Last edited by pralias47 (2012-05-07 06:10:39)

[Solved] Disable sound events, not using a desktop

I use plain Icewm (simple window manager, no desktop). Some software such as firefox or chromium do sometimes (but not often) make a sound relating to an event. If it possible to completely disable that. The only solution I have found is to uninstall libcanberra but for some reason, this solution is not satisfactory for me. I believe tjhis is some kind of freedesktop configuration but I have no idea how the freedesktop standard relate to sound.
Last edited by olive (2013-08-19 18:35:17)

I have tried a few things, but I am still out of luck. To have an example of what I mean, go to http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/ , select "Search for your Video Card" , then put an inexistants card and click "Find video card". You have a small windows saying "String <what you have typed not found>" and a "ding". i found no ways to disable these annoying ding. I thought having found the solution in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libcanberra but the suggested settings (with false instead of true, of course) does not seem to have any effect. Still completely uninstalling libcanberra solve the problem. But I would like to have a per user settings...
Last edited by olive (2013-08-17 13:47:59)

[Solved] No sound with ALSA (change default sound card)

I installed Arch on another laptop and I am unable to get sound working.
# lspci | grep -i audio
00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device 9840
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller (rev 02)
Two devices show up in alsamixer. The first (the default, I assume) shows up only an S/PDIF button that I can toggle. If I select the other sound card, I can change volume normally.
I followed this solution in the wiki with no success.
How can I make the second sound card the default one?
Last edited by Gradient (2014-09-09 18:17:14)

Here is the requested info with the cards in the corrected order:
$ aplay -lL;
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=Generic_1
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Generic_1
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
Front speakers
surround21:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC3227 Analog [ALC3227 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
$ for i in /proc/asound/card[0-9]*; do echo "--- $i ---";amixer -c $(cat $i/id); done;
--- /proc/asound/card0 ---
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 87
Mono: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 87
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 87
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 3 [100%] [36.00dB]
Front Right: 3 [100%] [36.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 63
Front Left: Capture 39 [62%] [12.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Capture 39 [62%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
Item0: 'Enabled'
Simple mixer control 'Internal Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 3 [100%] [36.00dB]
Front Right: 3 [100%] [36.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Mute-LED Mode',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'On' 'Off' 'Follow Master'
Item0: 'Follow Master'
--- /proc/asound/card1 ---
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
$ lspci -vnn | grep -A 1 -i audio
00:01.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device [1002:9840]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:22cd]
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller [1022:780d] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:22cd]
emeres wrote:What do you mean 'is visible in alsamixer'? F6 does not list it? Did you use index or enable?
Yes, that is what I meant; F6 did not list them both when I use your options. I must have done something wrong the first time, because now it does.
emeres wrote:Read this alsa documentation and 'mad modprobe'.
Thanks for the link. That was what I was looking for.

[SOLVED] Low sound with ALSA

Hi! I'm using alsa on a laptop with master, speaker and PCM at 100%, and I still can't get an output as loud as I'd like.
On ubuntu with pulseaudio, I had the option of setting the volume to 120% on the sound preferences menu, which made a desirable volume level for me. Is there an equivalent thing in arch? Is this like setting PCM to something higher than 0b?
Cheers!
Last edited by orlox (2010-08-14 20:09:46)

Just installed pulseaudio. Not really a solution to the name of this thread, since I didn't get a loud volume with ALSA, but it solves my problem of having low volume on my PC

[SOLVED] Disabling "dry" signal (ALSA or JACK)

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