[Solved] no sound cards detected

after just doing a clean install on my windows pc (to finaly remove it for good yay) my sound does not work. i look under settings and it only shows "dummy output" no other sound devices witch there sould be.
i have tried removing fluidsynth and checked to see if there are any programs using pulseaudio using # fuser -v /dev/snd/*
after reading the pulseaudio wiki on the issue it suggested editing .asoundconf but it was not present on my system, well not in the home folder at least.
i know the sound card works as it worked in windows 7 and arch only 1 hour ago. the only change to my set up is that i am using catalyst as my graphics driver.
other system details
i am using gnome via cdm as catalyst does not work with gdm
64-bit version of arch
thanks in advanced for any help
Last edited by witherdon (2013-11-14 15:40:07)

yes i did mean gnome control panel
out put of lspci -nn
bash: lspci-nn: command not found
[robert@localhost ~]$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx0 port B) [1002:5a14] (rev 02)
00:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port B) [1002:5a16]
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port D) [1002:5a18]
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port E) [1002:5a19]
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F) [1002:5a1a]
00:07.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port G) [1002:5a1b]
00:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port H) [1002:5a1c]
00:0b.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (NB-SB link) [1002:5a1f]
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391] (rev 40)
00:12.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:12.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:13.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:13.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 42)
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383] (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller [1002:439d] (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384] (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller [1002:4399]
00:16.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:16.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h Processor Function 0 [1022:1600]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h Processor Function 1 [1022:1601]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h Processor Function 2 [1022:1602]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h Processor Function 3 [1022:1603]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h Processor Function 4 [1022:1604]
00:18.5 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h Processor Function 5 [1022:1605]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970] [1002:6798]
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7970 Series] [1002:aaa0]
02:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller [1b21:0612] (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82583V Gigabit Network Connection [8086:150c]
04:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Host Controller [1b21:1042]
05:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Host Controller [1b21:1042]
06:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Host Controller [1b21:1042]
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970] [1002:6798]
07:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7970 Series] [1002:aaa0]
output of aplay -lL
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
default
Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)
aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...

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snd_hda_intel 18830 0
snd_hda_controller 19667 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec 91154 5 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_hwdep 5162 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 68932 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_timer 15678 1 snd_pcm
snd 46421 8 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jun 26 10:13 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Jun 26 10:13 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Jun 26 10:13 controlC1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Jun 26 10:13 hwC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 11 Jun 26 10:13 hwC1D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Jun 26 10:13 pcmC0D3p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Jun 26 10:13 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Jun 26 10:13 pcmC1D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Jun 26 10:13 pcmC1D1c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Jun 26 10:13 pcmC1D1p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Jun 26 10:13 pcmC1D2c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 1 Jun 26 10:13 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Jun 26 10:13 timer
All this information was collected while the device has been connected to the computer. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Last edited by gluelogic (2014-07-01 21:36:19)

emeres wrote:You only ruled out hardware failure on the device side.
This is painfully true. This morning, I realized I didn't even check the D-Link. The LEDs on the interface were lit up from the USB connection, but the AC adapter was faulty. I replaced that, restored my original configuration by removing the # from the first line of my alsa-base.conf, and now everything is working again. The D-Link was simply unable to provide the device with enough power to operate.

[solved] No sound cards found

Hi, I no longer have any sound, not sure when this started
This is what I have:
jason-laptop% aplay -l
aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...
jason-laptop% lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G84M [GeForce 8600M GT] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
May have lost sound after an upgrade.
I dont see anything related in journalctl
Edit:
Im using alsa and pulse, I see 'dummy output' in pavucontrol
pacman log:
[2013-09-07 22:08] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2013-09-07 22:08] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2013-09-07 22:08] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2013-09-07 22:08] [PACMAN] upgraded chromium (29.0.1547.62-1 -> 29.0.1547.65-1)
[2013-09-07 22:08] [PACMAN] upgraded curl (7.32.0-1 -> 7.32.0-2)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] updating font cache... done.
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded fontconfig (2.10.93-1 -> 2.10.95-1)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded ghostscript (9.09-1 -> 9.10-1)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Generating locales...
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] en_ZA.UTF-8... done
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Generation complete.
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded glibc (2.18-2 -> 2.18-3)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded gnutls (3.2.3-1 -> 3.2.4-1)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded gpicview (0.2.3-1 -> 0.2.3-2)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded gtk3 (3.8.2-1 -> 3.8.4-1)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded lcms (1.19-2 -> 1.19-4)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded libldap (2.4.35-4 -> 2.4.36-1)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded libmodplug (0.8.8.4-1 -> 0.8.8.4-2)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded lightdm (1:1.6.0-7 -> 1:1.6.1-1)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.10.10-1-ARCH
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [encrypt]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: smsmdtv
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.10.10-1-ARCH
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [encrypt]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: smsmdtv
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded linux (3.10.9-1 -> 3.10.10-1)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded lxappearance (0.5.2-1 -> 0.5.2-2)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded openbox (3.5.2-1 -> 3.5.2-4)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded lxappearance-obconf (0.2.0-1 -> 0.2.0-2)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded lxde-common (0.5.5-2 -> 0.5.5-3)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded menu-cache (0.5.0-1 -> 0.5.0-2)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded lxlauncher (0.2.2-3 -> 0.2.2-4)
[2013-09-07 22:09] [ALPM] warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew
[2013-09-07 22:09] [PACMAN] upgraded pacman-mirrorlist (20130626-1 -> 20130830-1)
[2013-09-07 22:10] [PACMAN] upgraded python (3.3.2-1 -> 3.3.2-2)
[2013-09-07 22:10] [PACMAN] upgraded sqlite (3.8.0-2 -> 3.8.0.1-1)
[2013-09-07 22:10] [PACMAN] upgraded python2 (2.7.5-1 -> 2.7.5-2)
[2013-09-07 22:10] [PACMAN] upgraded reiserfsprogs (3.6.23-1 -> 3.6.24-1)
[2013-09-07 22:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] In order to use the new version, reload all virtualbox modules manually.
[2013-09-07 22:10] [PACMAN] upgraded virtualbox-host-modules (4.2.16-8 -> 4.2.18-1)
[2013-09-07 22:10] [PACMAN] upgraded virtualbox (4.2.16-1 -> 4.2.18-1)
[2013-09-07 22:10] [PACMAN] upgraded weston (1.2.1-1 -> 1.2.2-1)
[2013-09-07 22:10] Exited with code 0
[2013-09-07 22:11] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S kdebase'
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed kde-wallpapers (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed exiv2 (0.23-1)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed strigi (0.7.8-4)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed attica (0.4.2-1)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed libiodbc (3.52.8-2)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed virtuoso-base (1:6.1.6-1)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed rasqal (1:0.9.30-1)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed redland (1:1.0.16-2)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed soprano (2.9.3-1)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed grantlee (0.3.0-2)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed shared-desktop-ontologies (0.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed qca (2.0.3-4)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed libdbusmenu-qt (0.9.2-2)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed polkit-qt (0.103.0-2)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> aspell comes with no default dictionary
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed aspell (0.60.6.1-1)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed hunspell (1.3.2-2)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed hspell (1.2-1)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed enchant (1.6.0-4)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed ilmbase (2.0.1-1)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed openexr (2.0.1-1)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed docbook-xml (4.5-5)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed docbook-xsl (1.78.1-1)
[2013-09-07 22:23] [PACMAN] installed media-player-info (19-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed qtwebkit (2.3.2-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdelibs (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed poppler-qt4 (0.24.1-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed libzip (0.11.1-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed convertlit (1.8-6)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed ebook-tools (0.2.2-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed nepomuk-core (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kactivities (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed libssh (0.5.4-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed oxygen-icons (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdebase-runtime (4.11.0-2)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdebase-lib (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed nepomuk-widgets (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdebase-dolphin (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdebase-kdepasswd (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdebase-kdialog (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdebase-keditbookmarks (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdebase-kfind (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdebase-konqueror (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed tidyhtml (1.46-2)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdebase-konq-plugins (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdebase-konsole (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdebase-katepart (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdebase-kwrite (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed libmariadbclient (5.5.32-2)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed mariadb-clients (5.5.32-2)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >> If you are migrating from MySQL, don't forget to run 'mysql_upgrade'
[2013-09-07 22:24] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] after mysqld.service restart.
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed mariadb (5.5.32-2)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed akonadi (1.10.2-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed libical (1.0-2)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed libdmtx (0.7.4-4)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed qrencode (3.4.3-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed prison (1.0-2)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed qjson (0.8.1-2)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdepimlibs (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed libkgapi (2.0.1-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed xerces-c (3.1.1-4)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed libkolabxml (0.8.4-2)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed libkolab (0.4.2-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed libkfbapi (1.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdepim-runtime (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed lm_sensors (3.3.4-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed qimageblitz (0.0.6-3)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed polkit-kde (0.99.0-2)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed xorg-xprop (1.2.2-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed cln (1.3.3-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed libqalculate (0.9.7-3)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed xorg-xmessage (1.0.4-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed libusb-compat (0.1.5-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kde-base-artwork (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed xcb-util-renderutil (0.3.8-1)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdebase-workspace (4.11.0-3)
[2013-09-07 22:24] [PACMAN] installed kdebase-plasma (4.11.0-1)
[2013-09-07 22:58] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S phonon-gstreamer'
[2013-09-07 22:58] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S phonon-vlc'
[2013-09-07 22:58] [PACMAN] installed phonon-vlc (0.6.2-1)
[2013-09-07 22:59] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S alsa-utils alsa-lib'
[2013-09-07 22:59] [PACMAN] reinstalled alsa-lib (1.0.27.2-1)
[2013-09-07 22:59] [PACMAN] reinstalled alsa-utils (1.0.27.2-1)
[2013-09-07 23:00] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S gstreamer0.10-plugin'
[2013-09-07 23:00] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S gstreamer0.10-plugins'
[2013-09-07 23:00] [PACMAN] reinstalled gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins (0.10.23-4)
[2013-09-07 23:00] [PACMAN] reinstalled gstreamer0.10-base-plugins (0.10.36-1)
[2013-09-07 23:00] [PACMAN] reinstalled gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (0.10.13-1)
[2013-09-07 23:00] [PACMAN] reinstalled gstreamer0.10-good-plugins (0.10.31-3)
[2013-09-07 23:00] [PACMAN] reinstalled gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins (0.10.19-6)
[2013-09-07 23:03] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S pkgfile'
[2013-09-07 23:04] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Run 'pkgfile --update' to initialize the database
[2013-09-07 23:04] [PACMAN] installed pkgfile (9-1)
[2013-09-07 23:15] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/linux-3.10.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.10.9-1-ARCH
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [encrypt]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: smsmdtv
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.10.9-1-ARCH
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [encrypt]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: smsmdtv
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2013-09-07 23:15] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2013-09-07 23:15] [PACMAN] downgraded linux (3.10.10-1 -> 3.10.9-1)
[2013-09-07 23:17] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Suu'
[2013-09-07 23:17] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.10.10-1-ARCH
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [encrypt]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: smsmdtv
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.10.10-1-ARCH
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [encrypt]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: smsmdtv
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2013-09-07 23:17] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2013-09-07 23:18] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2013-09-07 23:18] [PACMAN] upgraded linux (3.10.9-1 -> 3.10.10-1)
[2013-09-08 13:08] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S alsa-lib alsa-utils pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio'
[2013-09-08 13:08] [PACMAN] reinstalled alsa-lib (1.0.27.2-1)
[2013-09-08 13:08] [PACMAN] reinstalled alsa-utils (1.0.27.2-1)
[2013-09-08 13:08] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> If you have per-user copies of configuration files (such as client.conf,
[2013-09-08 13:08] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] daemon.conf or default.pa) in ~/.pulse/, make sure you keep them in sync
[2013-09-08 13:08] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] with changes to the packaged files in /etc/pulse/. Otherwise, PulseAudio
[2013-09-08 13:08] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] may refuse to start due to configuration errors.
[2013-09-08 13:08] [PACMAN] reinstalled pulseaudio (4.0-2)
[2013-09-08 13:08] [PACMAN] reinstalled pulseaudio-alsa (2-2)
[2013-09-08 13:09] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S linux'
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.10.10-1-ARCH
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [encrypt]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: smsmdtv
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.10.10-1-ARCH
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [encrypt]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: smsmdtv
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2013-09-08 13:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2013-09-08 13:09] [PACMAN] reinstalled linux (3.10.10-1)
[2013-09-08 13:17] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2013-09-08 13:17] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
Last edited by jrussell (2013-09-08 12:02:10)

Ok it seems that I would have no sound cards listed by aplay -l if I logged in from lightdm, If I logged in from a tty I would get sound cards listed from aplay -l.
I think lightdm 1:1.6.1-2 fixed my problem, everything works now, Id like to know why/how this happened if anyone knows? Thanks.

[Solved] Alsa Sound Card Numbering Not Persistant Between Boots

Hello,
I'm having trouble with alsa and my multiple sound cards. Sometimes when I boot, I get the following output from "aplay -l"
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
However, I also see this after other boots:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Because the card numbering is not consistant, I'm having a great deal of trouble (if the card is 0, then I don't need an asoundrc, but if it's 1, I do). It also breaks my volume panel applet for the alsa card number to often change (volumeicon - from the AUR). Is there a way to force a certain device to always be card number 0?
Thanks for any help.
-Sean
Last edited by szim90 (2012-01-15 02:01:54)

Thank you for your response, karol.
I ran 'udevadm info -a -p /sys/class/sound/card1/' as was able to get the following information:
looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card1':
KERNEL=="card1"
SUBSYSTEM=="sound"
DRIVER==""
ATTR{id}=="SB"
ATTR{number}=="1"
looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2':
KERNELS=="0000:00:14.2"
SUBSYSTEMS=="pci"
DRIVERS=="snd_hda_intel"
ATTRS{vendor}=="0x1002"
ATTRS{device}=="0x4383"
ATTRS{subsystem_vendor}=="0x1458"
ATTRS{subsystem_device}=="0xa102"
ATTRS{class}=="0x040300"
ATTRS{irq}=="16"
ATTRS{local_cpus}=="00000000,0000000f"
ATTRS{local_cpulist}=="0-3"
ATTRS{numa_node}=="0"
ATTRS{dma_mask_bits}=="64"
ATTRS{consistent_dma_mask_bits}=="64"
ATTRS{broken_parity_status}=="0"
ATTRS{msi_bus}==""
looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00':
KERNELS=="pci0000:00"
SUBSYSTEMS==""
DRIVERS==""
I'm completely new to writing udev rules; would the proper procedure be to write something like this:
DEVPATH=="/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card*" ATTRS{number}="0"
or will that happen too late in the boot process (after the card has already been assigned a number)?
Perhaps it would be easier to work through alsa itself? I know I can get sound consistantly by calling out the card in asoundrc:
pcm.!default { type hw card SB }
ctl.!default { type hw card SB }
But this seems to disable dmix (software mixing). Is there a way to re-enable dmix from the asoundrc (and would that be easier than trying to work in udev)?
Regards,
Sean

[SOLVED] USB sound card problems and audio setup

I want to clarify and correctly set up my ThinkPad T61 sound system finally.
I'm running Arch64 + KDE.
There are two sound cards - the internal HDA Intel and external USB CM118.
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Set [C-Media USB Headphone Set], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
First of all, why are there both analog and digital subdevices?
I just need playback and/or recording support for these applications: opera, firefox, skype, clementine, mplayer, vmplayer. As high quality as possible.
Per-application sound control would be nice but if that adds too much clutter, I could live without it. No need for audio streaming or any other luxuries.
All the applications should use the USB card whenever it's plugged in. The internal SC should take over when CM118 is unplugged.
The problem is that most of the time it doesn't work. For example, if I plug out the USB card and then run some application like Clementine or Firefox there would be no sound ("connection refused" in Clementine).
Here is my asound.conf:
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.ctl.card 0
Also kMix/amix should switch the master channel from HDA Intel Master to C-Media Master automatically. The only way to do this is to write some kind of script, right?
AFAIK the following audio components are installed: ALSA, OSS (for some unknown reason), Phonon, Gstreamer.
I guess I can uninstall OSS without worries as no one seems to need it (checked with "whoneeds").
What about that Phonon? Would it override the asoud.conf if I set default device there? Why there are so many different devices in the Phonon configuration list:
C-Media USB Headphone Set, USB Audio (Default Audio Device)
C-Media USB Headphone Set (USB Audio)
C-Media USB Headphone Set, USB Audio (IECblablabla)
hw:1,0
hw:1,1
default
Intel Analog
Intel Digital
blablalba
And that C-Media triplet for every USB port the CM118 has been plugged in.
Too much confusion! All that mess for just two different cards.
So what is the proper way of setting primary and secondary sound cards in this situation?
Thank you!
Last edited by andrisll (2012-07-19 08:48:28)

I am sorry for my very late response and the lack of structure in my post.
I did some investigation and found a rather acceptable workaround for one of my problems described below.
Here is the basic functionality I need:
1. Automatic (on the fly) switching to the external sound card when it's plugged in and automatic fallback to the integrated SC when usb is unplugged.
2. Automatic (on the fly) switching of the kMix's master channel according to the changes mentioned above.
As for the first problem, I found this udev rule:
KERNEL=="pcmC[D0-9cp]*", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#pcmC}; K=$${K%%D*}; echo defaults.ctl.card $$K > /etc/asound.conf; echo defaults.pcm.card $$K >>/etc/asound.conf"
KERNEL=="pcmC[D0-9cp]*", ACTION=="remove", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'echo defaults.ctl.card 0 > /etc/asound.conf; echo defaults.pcm.card 0 >>/etc/asound.conf'"
This solution has some disadvantages but it is acceptible. If you know of any better solution, please tell me.
For the second problem, I found this script which uses qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster method to set the master channel. However, I think that constant monitoring for the usb SC being plugged is not very effective. So I thought appending the following code to the second line of the previous udev rule would do the work:
, RUN+="/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster "ALSA::C-Media_USB_Headphone_Set:1" "Speaker:0""
But that results in some weird behaviour: master channel stays the same but there would be three new tabs in the kMix window now: USB Set", USB Set# and USB Set$.
Here's what log messages tell us:
07/14/12 12:25:13 PM localhost kernel [10889.749048] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 13 using uhci_hcd
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost kernel [10889.914921] input: C-Media USB Headphone Set as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.3/input/input21
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost kernel [10889.915454] generic-usb 0003:0D8C:000C.000C: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Device [C-Media USB Headphone Set ] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-1/input3
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe checking bus 3, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1"
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe checking bus 3, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1"
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe checking bus 3, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1"
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe checking bus 3, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1"
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe bus: 3, device: 13 was not an MTP device
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe bus: 3, device: 13 was not an MTP device
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe bus: 3, device: 13 was not an MTP device
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe bus: 3, device: 13 was not an MTP device
You see, the probe thing is running multiple times!
And here is an excerpt from udev debugger:
starting '/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster '
'/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster '(err) 'Could not connect to D-Bus server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11'
'/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster ' [2769] exit with return code 1
'/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster '(err) 'Could not connect to D-Bus server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11'
Some kind of X11 problem... And also happening twice! Why?
Running the setCurrentMaster method in terminal works very nicely, so the problem must be the way udev runs it.
One last thing - sometimes the usb SC automatically reconnects (disconnects and connects). I read somewhere that most probably the usb device makes the trouble, but maybe there are other possiblities?
Last edited by andrisll (2012-07-14 10:04:16)

[Solved] no sound cards detected

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