Sound problems (load_state:1608: No soundcards found)

Hey there!
I am having troubles with my sound devices. It was running very well until yesterday when I did pacman -Syu. Unfortunatelly I can't remember which packages have been upgrade exactly... :-/
The first hint of a problem is that the alsa daemon is giving me this error message:
[root /etc/rc.d]# ./alsa start
:: Restoring ALSA Levels [BUSY]
/usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1608: No soundcards found... [FAIL]
[root /etc/rc.d]#
My soundcard is the SupremeFX II Audio Card which came with the Asus Motherboard Maximus Extreme.
Like the wiki told me the following information might be helpful:
[root /etc/rc.d]# lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_hda_codec_analog 83184 1
snd_seq_dummy 3540 0
snd_seq_oss 36224 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8592 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 64640 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 8324 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_intel 31208 1
snd_hda_codec 82000 2 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 47328 0
snd_hwdep 9944 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 90808 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25344 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10752 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss 20976 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd 76712 11 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
[root /etc/rc.d]#
To me, this looks ok. Am I right?
Now the next thing, ls -l /dev/snd, which is a bit weird. I did this a few mintues ago and everything seemed to be okay. There were some devices similar to the output here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Adv … are_loaded. I thought I might give OSS a try and installed it with pacman -S oss. I edited /etc/rc.conf accordingly but it didn't work. So I decided to prefer solving the problems with alsa. I did "pacman -Rs oss" which removed both before installed packages "kernel26-headers-2.6.32.7-1" and "oss-4.2_2002-2". I changed /etc/rc.conf again back to the state before the oss installation. And now, there is nothing left in /dev/snd:
[root /home/user]# ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Feb 3 12:05 by-path
[root /home/user]#
I also can't load the modules manually as described on the wiki page.
[root@QX9450 /home/mm]# modprobe -v snd-hda-intel
[root@QX9450 /home/mm]# modprobe -v snd-pcm-oss
[root@QX9450 /home/mm]# ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Feb 3 12:05 by-path
[root@QX9450 /home/mm]#
What can do now? Perhaps it would already be helpfull to know which packages have been upgrade by pacman -Syu. Is that possible, somehow?
This is really important to me as no sound is a total pain in the ass... Especially as I have nearly no time to play around with these things because I have a lot private stuff going on... so please, help me if you can.
Thanks a lot!

Dear yvonney
In any application I can freely choose between ALSA or OSS drivers. I can hear sound in each configuration without having to unload or uninstall neither ALSA nor OSS modules.
My module list is:
>lsmod
Module Size Used by
cls_u32 9056 2
sch_sfq 7584 3
sch_htb 19040 1
ipv6 338656 16
fan 5704 0
battery 13896 0
ac 5640 0
gspca_spca500 14592 0
gspca_main 28160 1 gspca_spca500
em28xx_dvb 11588 0
dvb_core 106384 1 em28xx_dvb
em28xx 97680 1 em28xx_dvb
ir_common 45892 1 em28xx
v4l2_common 19360 1 em28xx
videodev 42752 3 gspca_main,em28xx,v4l2_common
v4l1_compat 18276 1 videodev
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 11040 1 videodev
videobuf_vmalloc 8036 1 em28xx
videobuf_core 19332 2 em28xx,videobuf_vmalloc
tveeprom 14724 1 em28xx
snd_seq_dummy 3588 0
snd_seq_oss 36320 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8640 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 64768 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 47360 0
snd_mixer_oss 21024 1 snd_pcm_oss
arc4 2240 2
ecb 3584 2
radeon 716512 1
ttm 43776 1 radeon
snd_emu10k1 161408 1
snd_via82xx 29228 1
snd_ac97_codec 133592 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_via82xx
ac97_bus 2208 1 snd_ac97_codec
ppdev 8712 0
drm 191392 2 radeon,ttm
snd_usb_audio 106304 1
snd_pcm 91848 5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio
snd_timer 25456 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10832 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_usb_lib 20672 1 snd_usb_audio
rt61pci 23940 0
crc_itu_t 2208 1 rt61pci
snd_mpu401_uart 9312 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 26752 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_usb_lib,snd_mpu401_uart
i2c_algo_bit 6980 1 radeon
snd_util_mem 4736 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 10056 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_usb_audio
snd_seq_device 8372 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
rt2x00pci 8736 1 rt61pci
parport_pc 42920 1
snd 77224 20 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_device
rt2x00lib 35936 2 rt61pci,rt2x00pci
led_class 5160 1 rt2x00lib
soundcore 8768 1 snd
eeprom_93cx6 2400 1 rt61pci
thermal 17760 0
button 7264 0
lp 12772 0
amd64_edac_mod 23240 0
parport 39472 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
psmouse 60708 0
mac80211 179312 2 rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
edac_core 51660 3 amd64_edac_mod
emu10k1_gp 3840 0
gameport 13808 3 snd_via82xx,emu10k1_gp
pcspkr 3296 0
evdev 13024 10
i2c_viapro 8856 0
i2c_core 25664 8 em28xx,v4l2_common,videodev,tveeprom,radeon,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_viapro
serio_raw 7268 0
sg 33664 0
cfg80211 104344 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
rfkill 24232 1 cfg80211
input_polldev 4688 1 rt2x00lib
slhc 6624 0
shpchp 40252 0
pci_hotplug 33200 1 shpchp
skge 47568 0
w83627hf 33268 0
hwmon_vid 3872 1 w83627hf
k8temp 5760 0
cpufreq_ondemand 8976 1
powernow_k8 15428 0
freq_table 4576 2 cpufreq_ondemand,powernow_k8
processor 42364 1 powernow_k8
rtc_cmos 13756 0
rtc_core 22116 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 3168 1 rtc_core
ext3 151184 6
jbd 59496 1 ext3
mbcache 9028 1 ext3
usb_storage 64928 1
sr_mod 19556 0
cdrom 41320 1 sr_mod
sd_mod 31848 9
uhci_hcd 27232 0
ehci_hcd 41776 0
usbcore 183764 10 gspca_spca500,gspca_main,em28xx_dvb,em28xx,snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,usb_storage,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
sata_via 12324 0
ata_generic 6244 0
pata_via 11912 6
pata_acpi 5824 0
libata 193612 4 sata_via,ata_generic,pata_via,pata_acpi
scsi_mod 133592 5 sg,usb_storage,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
>lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
00:0c.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2600 802.11 MIMO
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)
00:0d.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 08)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
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
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] (rev 01)
> uname -a
Linux SOBREMESA 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 10 19:01:40 CET 2009 x86_64 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Note: it was not this computer where I had the problem of the /dev/ files, it's just an example where I can use both OSS and ALSA drivers.
Best regards!
David Bluecame

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Make a clear cmos. Then boot the computer with only one stick of ram in the port .
If everything is fine, turn off and add the other port of the same color for dual channel.
If it does not boot with the 2 sticks in the port of the good color, try to switch ports again. Maybe one stick is dead?

Intermittent sound problems Yamaha AV receiver and Brighthouse cable

I have a Yamaha RX-V655 AV receiver connected to a Brighthouse cable DVR. The DVR is a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD unit. I am using a HDMI cable from the DVR to the receiver and a HDMI cable from the receiver to a Sony Bravia TV. This system works good most of the time. However on occasion I lose sound, all sound. The only way I found to fix this problem is to turn off all the units (DVR, receiver, tv etc) and then turn them back on. Any ideas as to way this happens? Any fixes?

dschlic1 wrote:
I just received this from Brighthouse:
"We sincerely apologize for any difficulties you have encountered but at
this time we have no further information regarding the conflict that the
HD cable boxes are having with the HDMI cables. We are currently aware
of an issue on some of our HD converters, and are working to resolve the
issue as quickly as possible. "
So they know about it, but can't fix it.
Let's go ahead and try some alternate audio connections. Optical/Coax digital first, then analog RCAs as a last resort.
Disclosure: Former BBY employee.

I have sounds problems with iOS 7

I have sounds problems with iOS 7. I can not hear my music, all the apps have no sounds. Only when I ask Siri has sound but it's too loud and awful. I found 2 errors with I ask to Siri what things she can do in Spanish the is an error and one word or If I ask who am I? She said that I have to go to settings and indicate her who I am but I already have that configured. And I try to configure again just in case, I do the same question and she still doesn't who I am.

Try a Restart.
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red "slide to power off" slider appears, and then slide the slider. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Resetting your settings
You can also try resetting all settings. Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings. You will have to enter all of your device settings again.... All of the settings in the settings app will have to be re-entered. You won't lose any data, but it takes time to enter all of the settings again.
Resetting your device
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears. Apple recommends this only if you are unable to restart it.
Or if this doesn't work and nobody else on the blog doesn't have a better idea you can contact Apple.
Here is a link to their contacts with most of the information below.
http://www.apple.com/contact/

Re: IDT High Definition Audio CODEC (NO SOUND PROBLEM) Options

I have been trying for 3 days to fix this issue & I even had Bicrosft tech support on line remote PC acces take control of my PC, and still can't get the sound to work!
Does any one know how to fix this issue? DEFINITIVELY?
IDT High Definition Audio CODEC (NO SOUND PROBLEM)
‎03-20-2013 05:24 AM
My PC info is:
Manufacture: Hewlett-Packard
Model: HP EliteBook 8460p
Rating: 5.3 Windows Experience Index
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.50GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 4.00 GB (2.98 GB usable)
System type: 64-bit Operating System
Pen and Touch: No Pen or Touch Input is available for this Display
Windows 7 Professional
Product ID: 00371-OEM-8992671-00008
Problem: I was watching a movie a night before, and I muted and forgot to turn off my laptop, today I found out the sound did not work, so I tried restarting and still no hope, i tried disabling and enabling the IDT High Definition Audio CODEC and still no hope, windows says that this device is working properly, but oviously its not I really need help, I dont know anything advanced about technology yet, so im helpless.
T
Re: IDT High Definition Audio CODEC (NO SOUND PROBLEM)
‎03-20-2013 05:28 AM
I also tried leaving the Laptop to cooldown for about 3 hours and still no sound.
DavidPK
Re: IDT High Definition Audio CODEC (NO SOUND PROBLEM)
s
‎03-20-2013 05:40 AM
Hi,
Try the following.
Download the IDT Audio installer on the link below and save it to your Downloads folder.
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp59001-59500/sp59291.exe
When done, open windows Control Panel, open Device Manager and open up Sound, Video and Game Controllers. Right click the IDT device and select Uninstall - you should also get a prompt to remove the current driver, tick the box to allow thisand then proceed with the uninstall.
When complete, shut down the notebook, unplug the AC Adapter and then remove the battery. Hold down the Power button for 30 seconds. Re-insert the battery and plug in the AC Adapter.
Start the notebook and let Windows fully load - it will automatically load an audio driver, but just let this complete. Then open your Downloads folder, right click on the IDT installer and select 'Run as Administrator' to start the installation. When this has completed, right click the speaker icon in the Taskbar and select Playback Devices. Left click 'Speakers and Headphones' once to highlight it and then click the Set Default button - check if you now have audio.
Regards,
DP-K

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LENOVO A600-TV, RC related SOUND PROBLEM

There is no problem with my TV function, it is working perfectly. I connect my remote controller to TV, this is also working. After 10 minutes, remote controller(connected with bluetooth) goes into sleep mode because of battery life. when you press any button on RC it goes back to active mode, bluetooth connection is rebuilt again. My problem is about that. When bluetooth connection of my RC is rebuilt again after ten minutes of sleep mode, the sound of my TV goes of. I found two solutions about this problem. First one is not to let RC go into sleep mode by doing anything in that ten minutes which also cause battery of RC last shorter. the second one is from my BLUETOOTH DEVICE's and SERVICE's i make headphones active and after this passive or visa versa. at that moment the sound comes back but this is a lot of work in the middle of TV watching. please HELP ME. if you suggest to setup my drivers again. please send me a link. because i couldn't find a RC driver for lenovo a600. windows 7 64 bit is my operating sys.

Hello,
cannot help with the sound problem.
For memory, I've got almost the same thing but with 4 sticks of 2gb and only 2 detected on an ASUS P7P55D deluxe.
Bios was my issue but I needed to do this (but with pairs of sticks instead of sticks) after the bios update to finally get my 8gb under windows:
Make a clear cmos. Then boot the computer with only one stick of ram in the port .
If everything is fine, turn off and add the other port of the same color for dual channel.
If it does not boot with the 2 sticks in the port of the good color, try to switch ports again. Maybe one stick is dead?

Sound problems with Portege M600 using WXP SP3

I have had on-going sound problems with my laptop and feel so frustrated - please help!
I have downloaded the sound driver (abt a million times - and tried uninstalling then reinstalling) - and repeatedly get no volume icon on the desk top and a message saying "no sound driver can be found".
I did manage to fix it once - when i had WIndows Vista installed - by finding some obscure patch - but this time around - no solutions.
Can anyone help - it is so frustrating!!!!

The mentioned patches are part of Win XP SP2 & SP3
So ensure that all service packs are installed.
Then go to device manager and delete the High Definition Audio Controller (in system devices) and additionally delete all devices from Audio, Video and Game controller section.
Then reboot the notebook.
Wait until the device would be recognized again and then install the sound driver!

Very strange Sound problem after upgrade.

For the past several months I've been using both onbaord and a second soundcard on my MSI K8N Neo 4 SLI and have had no problems. Yesterday I upgraded from an AMD Atlhon 64 3000+ venice to 3200+ venice and went from a IDE hdd to a SATA 3g/b hdd. Now I can't get sound to work on either soundcard.. I have formatted several times and tried supplied drivers and ones from Creative and MSI. I just can't get the sound to work anymore.. Also I'm powering my SATA drive through Legacy 4pin Molex the same as my previous IDE drive. i can't figure out WHY this is happening, I have the same PSU as before and that should not effect a PCI sound blaster either..

Try the nvidia drivers
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
Platform Nforce Drivers / Nforce Audio Driver..
that supports your board

IMovie 6 transition sound problem - transposed soundtracks? Any solution?

Hello,
I can see that this problem has been discussed many times, and I am getting by using some of the suggested "work-arounds", but I was just wondering if there have been any actual solutions to this problem? I never had this problem before, and I don't exactly know when it started, but it is VERY ANNOYING! I have iMovie6 and a 2.4 GHz iMac with an Intel Core 2 Duo. I am still using Leapard, OS version 10.5.8 simply because it seems to work fine, and I haven't needed any of the newer features. However, if this transition issue would be corrected with an upgrade, I would gladly upgrade! Has anyone found a solution for this transition sound problem?
Thanks,
Lincoln

Lincoln
Like you I find this very annoying .
For me "extracting audio" sometimes results in the audio becomming out of sync with the video, also doing the "update" mentioned above does not fix it for me; I must be doing something wrong?
Having opened iMovie 6 to try "update " fix and failed I started to try a few things.I think I have found a solution that works.
The following sounds complicated, but is not; reading twice is recommended
Most of us apply a string of transitions from left to right i.e. between clip 1 and 2 then between 2 and 3 then 3 and 4 and so on. The audio glitch will occur in say transition 2/3 because there is a transition immediately before it in 1/2 and likewise a glitch in 3/4 because of the transition immediately before in 2/3 .
I find you do not get a transition audio glitch between 2 clips if there is no transition immediately before.
So the simple solution is having sorted all your clips and edited, apply the transitions in reverse direction i.e. from the end of the movie working towards the beginning; transition between clip 39/40 then 38/39, 37/38 and so on down to 2/1.
If you do not want to start at clip 40 for some reason you can say do (assuming you want all clips to have transitions) clips 5 down to 1, then say 15 down to 10, then say 10 down to 5 etc etc. But you will notice that when you do clip 5/6 in this scenario you already have a transition for 4/5 so you will get an audio glitch for 5/6.
The solution here before doing transition 5/6 is to split video at playhead somewhere in clip 5 so that there is a break in the transitions but no interuption in the video.
If you are able to apply transitions in one session then working backwards from the end is the easiest solution and takes no longer than any other method.
If you have to do it in segments still work backwards but spit clip at playhead as above when approaching an already applied transition in order to create a "transition break".
Alternatively a quick and dirty way might be to split every clip in 2 before applying transitions and apply the transitions anywhere except at the splits.This way you should not have to worry what order or direction you apply them in.
If you try this let me know how you get on.

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