Sound stuck. Alsa, atiixp and KDE [solved]

SEE http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4325 FOR SOLUTION
Here`s my story:
I was watching some DVDs, relaxing and all, however when I inserted one DVD and tried to mount it, system froze.
After reboot I tried doing the same thing. Unfortunately, few moments after mount /mnt/cd system froze again.
,,Well what the heck, must be corrupt DVD" - I thought and decided to spend evening listening to the music.
But oh no, amaroK was acting strange.
Music seemed to be stuck on few first accords, it was playing them again, and again, and again.... Well you get the picture.
Since I am using amaroK 1.4 beta2 (it`s great!) I thought it may be a bug.
However my attempts to get some music flowin` with XMMS were unsuccessful too.
After a cruise to kcontrol > sound system > test sound I made sure that it wasn`t amaroK or XMMS that were buggy.
Tried changing to OSS, got some sound, however it was reaaaaally choppy and this time it stuck somewhere in the middle of the track (test sound ,,track`` that is).
Logs (/var/log/everything.log) look strange too, they were full of this:
Mar 30 23:58:28 localhost [fglrx:firegl_rmmap] *ERROR* map 0xdd325b10 still in use (map_count=1)
Mar 30 23:58:28 localhost [fglrx:firegl_free_buffer_queue] *ERROR* buffer qeue 0xdd325b00 still mapped
And around 150 lines higher it was like this:
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c0229453>] acpi_ex_access_region+0x47/0x8e
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c02295ca>] acpi_ex_field_datum_io+0xf8/0x18a
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c02297cd>] acpi_ex_extract_from_field+0x79/0x213
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c0236f5a>] acpi_ut_allocate_object_desc_dbg+0xc/0x49
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c0236dfc>] acpi_ut_create_internal_object_dbg+0x18/0x6a
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c02281df>] acpi_ex_read_data_from_field+0x11f/0x14e
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c022cbf0>] acpi_ex_resolve_node_to_value+0xb0/0xe4
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c022896d>] acpi_ex_resolve_to_value+0x39/0x4d
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c022ab05>] acpi_ex_resolve_operands+0x1b2/0x341
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c02237e8>] acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0x96/0x336
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c0230f3f>] acpi_ps_parse_loop+0x503/0x7f4
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c02308b5>] acpi_ps_parse_aml+0x46/0x1cd
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c02316e2>] acpi_ps_execute_pass+0x6c/0x7e
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c0231619>] acpi_ps_execute_method+0x49/0x70
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c022ee87>] acpi_ns_execute_control_method+0x42/0x4f
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c022ee29>] acpi_ns_evaluate_by_handle+0x73/0x8f
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c022ed23>] acpi_ns_evaluate_relative+0xab/0xcd
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c022e61c>] acpi_evaluate_object+0xf4/0x1ac
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c0170003>] __posix_lock_file+0x10a/0x572
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c0239057>] acpi_battery_get_info+0x67/0x10f
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c0239394>] acpi_battery_read_info+0x36/0x1d9
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c0179e99>] seq_read+0xef/0x26a
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c015e0b1>] vfs_read+0xa1/0x138
Mar 30 23:36:10 localhost [<c015e3a6>] sys_read+0x3b/0x64
Mar 30 23:36:11 localhost [<c0102d93>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
Mar 30 23:36:11 localhost handlers:
Mar 30 23:36:11 localhost [<e1b79dc5>] (snd_atiixp_interrupt+0x0/0xdc [snd_atiixp])
Mar 30 23:36:11 localhost [<e1f691f2>] (ohci_irq_handler+0x0/0x5c9 [ohci1394])
Mar 30 23:36:11 localhost [<e1f48133>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x55 [usbcore])
Mar 30 23:36:11 localhost [<e1f48133>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x55 [usbcore])
Mar 30 23:36:11 localhost [<e1f48133>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x55 [usbcore])
Mar 30 23:36:11 localhost Disabling IRQ #11
Mar 30 23:44:59 localhost syslog-ng[3430]: STATS: dropped 0
Mar 30 23:54:59 localhost syslog-ng[3430]: STATS: dropped 0
Mar 30 23:56:56 localhost [fglrx] free PCIe = 51118080
Mar 30 23:56:56 localhost [fglrx] max PCIe = 51118080
Mar 30 23:56:56 localhost [fglrx] free LFB = 116322304
Mar 30 23:56:56 localhost [fglrx] max LFB = 116322304
Mar 30 23:56:56 localhost [fglrx] free Inv = 0
Mar 30 23:56:56 localhost [fglrx] max Inv = 0
Mar 30 23:56:56 localhost [fglrx] total Inv = 0
Mar 30 23:56:56 localhost [fglrx] total TIM = 0
Mar 30 23:56:56 localhost [fglrx] total FB = 0
Mar 30 23:56:56 localhost [fglrx] total PCIe = 16384
My lshwd looks like this:
00:00.0 Host bridge: (unknown)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: (unknown)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: (unknown)
00:13.0 USB Controller: (unknown)
00:13.1 USB Controller: (unknown)
00:13.2 USB Controller: (unknown)
00:14.0 SMBus: (unknown)
00:14.1 IDE interface: (atiixp)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: (unknown)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: (unknown)
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI|IXP400 AC'97 Audio Controller (snd-atiixp)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI|IXP400 AC'97 Audio Controller (unknown)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices|K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration (unknown)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices|K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map (unknown)
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices|K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller (unknown)
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices|K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control (unknown)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices|K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control (vesa)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.|Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (unknown)
03:07.0 CardBus bridge: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.|Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (unknown)
03:07.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Marvell Technology Group Ltd.|Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (unknown)
03:07.3 Mass storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.|Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (unknown)
03:07.4 Class 0805: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.|Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (unknown)
03:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc.|AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter (ath_pci)
002:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (hub)
003:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (hub)
001:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (hub)
---:--- Mouse: Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse [/dev/psaux] (msintellips/2)
As always, any ideas appreciated.
EDIT: Just noticed that lshwd does not recognize modules.
I guess it has something to do with my issue.
If hwd -u will help, I`m going to feel real stupid
EDIT2: Nope, didn`t help.
Tried issuing cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp without X running, went fine.
Tried aplay somefile.wav, sound stuck again.

I use latest archck, I always keep synced with testing.
I have blacklisted modem driver long time ago.
And I`m pretty happy with fglrx.
Even worse, today I`ve tried plugging my USB mouse, everything`s fine, few seconds after ,,startx`` I was able to use it (while no desktop was loaded), however KDE stuck on ,,Initializing Peripherals`` for few seconds and I was unable to continue using USB mouse.
Touchpad worked fine tho.
Tried reinstalling alsa, hwd, archck, no results.
My lshwd looks like this after hwd -u:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc.|Radeon Xpress 200 (RS480/RS482/RX480/RX482) Chipset - Host bridge (unknown)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc.|RS480 PCI-X Root Port (unknown)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc.|RS480 PCI-X Root Port (unknown)
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc.|IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (unknown)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc.|IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (unknown)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc.|IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (unknown)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc.|SMBus (unknown)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc.|Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI (atiixp)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc.|IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (unknown)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc.|IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (unknown)
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc.|IXP400 AC'97 Audio Controller (snd-atiixp)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc.|IXP AC'97 Modem (snd-atiixp-modem)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices|K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration (unknown)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices|K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map (unknown)
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices|K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller (unknown)
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices|K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control (amd64-agp)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc.|Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE) (vesa)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Semiconductor Inc.|Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (sk98lin)
03:07.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments|Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller (yenta_socket)
03:07.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments|Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller (unknown)
03:07.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments|Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller (unknown)
03:07.4 : Texas Instruments|Texas Instruments PCI6411, PCI6421, PCI6611, PCI6621, PCI7411, PCI7421, PCI7611, PCI7621 Secure Digital (SD) C (unknown)
03:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc.|AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter (ath_pci)
002:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (hub)
003:002 USB Human Interface Devices: Logic3 / SpectraVideo plc|A4Tech SWOP-3 Mouse [/dev/input/mice] (usbhid)
003:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (hub)
001:002 USB Mass Storage: Cypress Semiconductor Corp.|USB-2.0 IDE Adapter (usb-storage)
001:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (hub)
---:--- Mouse: PS/2 Mouse port [/dev/psaux] (msintellips/2)
I suspect that this may be hwd or udev bug.
Any ideas?

Similar Messages

Upgrade XF86 causes loss of X and Kde(solved)

Upgrade this day caused loss of X and KDE.
Reference made to shared libx11 not opened.
Side issue: Knoppix cannot access internet in version 3.4 or version 3.7 on the affected machine.
Virus?

Startx message: error while loading shared libraries:libx11.so.6 : cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory.

Sound with both GNOME and KDE installed[SOLVED]

Is there something that can be conflicting with my alsa-setup if I install kdenlive on my multimedia-station. I have an USB-soundcard as default device on my GNOME desktop and everything is running really well. I saw that there are a lot of KDE-dependencies to kdenlive, phonon among others. I think that is some kind of sound-backend. I have had some troubles with sound when I have been running KDE.
Last edited by jai134 (2010-04-06 18:21:55)

I don't think anything should go wrong. Anyway, you may want to choose the actual backend that phonon will be using: it can be either xine or gstreamer, but since you are using gnome you are probably using gstreamer already. You can check each backend's dependencies and choose the one you use for the rest of your multimedia apps here: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=phonon

64bit and kde Solved thanks to evr

I installed the 64bit system and then KDE but when I start KDE the screen freezes and I have to reboot, any ideas
Last edited by normc (2009-04-06 19:23:01)

is xorg working properly, what graphics driver are you using? also, is the hal daemon running?

Sound stuck in Mute and volume keys won't work

The other day, I happened to Mute my sound. Now, it will not let me return to having sound. I have tried the volume up and volume down keys, but they don't respond. I've tried adjusting the sound using System Preferences, but to no avail, since there is nothing listed in the "output" window. I do get a start-up sound when the system boots up, so I don't think the speakers have died. And the sound still doesn't work if I plug headphones into the jack... anyone?
Thanks -
ibook Mac OS X (10.3.9)

thanks - I tried that - for some reason, I decided to just back up recent files and reload the 10.3.9 update and now all the keys are working again.... Thanks for your input - I don't know what little demon was posessing the ibook, but I'm glad reinstalling the update killed it.

Surround sound in ALSA in KDE and dmix, a working case

After two days of searching the web, reading manuals, typing and constant rebooting, I ended up with a configuration for ALSA that works fine 95% of the time. Right now I am listening to 5.1 surround sound (through upmixing) from any app I want (flash not installed, so not tested). I am writing it here 'cause I didn't find this answer to any other forum and the solution on Archwiki didn't work, so it might help a lot of people. The following .asoundrc is a slightly modified version of a .asoundrc file that could be found on alsa.opensrc.org before it went down (found it on wayback machine). Here it is:
pcm.card0 {
type hw
card 0 #change this to our device
device 0 #change this to our device
# mmap_emulation true
pcm.dmix0 {
type dmix
ipc_key 34521
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0" #change this to your device
channels 6
pcm.dsnoop0 {
type dsnoop
ipc_key 34523
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0" #change this to your device
pcm.asym0 {
type asym
playback.pcm "dmix0"
capture.pcm "dsnoop0"
pcm.pasym0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "asym0"
# 'dsp0' is espected by OSS emulation etc.
pcm.dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "asym0"
ctl.dsp0 {
type hw
card 0 #change this to our device
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "asym0"
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0 #change this to your device
pcm.upmix51 {
type upmix
slave.pcm "asym0"
delay 15
channels 6
pcm.!default "plug:upmix51"
This will allow for both input and output mixing, togther with 5.1 sound. I think it can be summarized to 5 or 6 lines but my brain is too bloated with all the linux audio crap right now to even think about it..
In some cases, in KDE, when some phonon based apps like Bangarang or Amarok are the first ones to produce sound after boot, then the sound device is locked and no other app will be able to access it and play anything. If I exit the app, play sth else, eg speakertest -c 6, then everything works fine and I can have any app produce sound (even Amarok and Bangarang). In these wicked circumstances, I noticed that KDE notifies me of some sound devices not working and falling back to some other ones (that do not necessarily have a different name). Also the login sound doesn't play and maybe it is due to this that the notification appears. In any case, after rebooting the whole thing (usually) doesn't repeat.
Another thing with ALSA that mixed things more is that, in case you have a usb webcam plugged in, sometimes its microphone becomes the default device and the above .asoundrc will stop working. To prevent this simply change the order the devices are loaded by putting the following in a file under /etc/modprobe.d:
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias snd-card-1 snd_usb_audio
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
options snd-card-1 index=1
options snd_usb_audio index=1
(found here http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/alsa-no … boot-time). The aliases are probably not needed.
I am curious to see if this works for anyone else. Also, I don't know how to use alsa-equal with this .asoundrc, so any advice is welcome. (By the way, I never got alsa-equal to work with Amarok).
Last edited by tterranigma (2012-04-12 00:18:59)

Correct about samplerate_best.
Yes, but is there another app that has audio open?
Well, yes and no.. In KDE running fuser (and lsof) shows "kde4" and "kmix", but I doubt these are actually using the device, because, even with software mixing disabled, they are still listed, yet I can still play surround sound with speakertest.
Also, in KDE, I diabled/enabled (on the fly) samplerate_best several times while trying things, without restarting KDE and the results where mixed. The same with your .asoundrc and other configurations. As a conclusion, while in KDE ALWAYS restart it to be sure that the new .asoundrc is used (fastest way ctrl+alt+bksp to kill X).
A question:
Generally, in linux, everything uses ALSA (ok, also OSS) to produce sound. So .asoundrc is always in effect no matter what app we are using, right? However, before even enabling surround sound, with alsaequal installed as the deffault device (as te wiki suggests), the equalizer was used only by apps talking directly to ALSA (eg VLC, speakertest) and was ignored by phonon apps. Any explanation? On the contrary, VLC seems to ignore .asoundrc as far as surround sound and samplrate_best are concerned. What is happening?
In any case, how could I change .asoundrc to make use of alsaequal as the default, together with 5.1 sound and dmixing?

[SOLVED] Playing sound simultaniously from wine and other applications

I'm using Pulseaudio with the following packages installed:
~> pacman -Q | grep 'alsa\|pulse'
alsa-lib 1.0.27.2-1
alsa-plugins 1.0.27-2
alsa-utils 1.0.27.2-1
lib32-alsa-lib 1.0.27.2-1
lib32-libpulse 5.0-1
libpulse 5.0-1
pulseaudio 5.0-1
pulseaudio-alsa 2-2
When running a wine application sound works, unless a linux application is playing sound. If that is the case, no sound is playing from the wine app until sound from the linux application stops (for example by pausing smplayer).
Is there any way to make sound work simultaneously from wine and native applications?
Other information that may be relevant:
Architecture - x86_64
Desktop - KDE
Wine application - BabasChess
Last edited by CarbonFixer (2014-04-16 16:14:10)

V1del wrote:Install lib32-alsa-plugins and set wine to use the default resp (System Standard) card in winecfg pulsemixers should show an [alsa-plugin] wine stream
Thanks
Was missing that package.

[SOLVED] knotify4 is locking sound card (ALSA only & ICE1724)

Just today 7/8/11 I did a pacman -Syu after using reflector to get the latest/fastest mirrors. After the KDE upgrade, everything is working correctly again.
When my system boots up, I hear the standard startup sound after logging into KDE. If I try to use "speaker-test" or upon trying to play in MPD or anything else I get a
"ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy"
error. I thought the default device was getting confused (as per the wiki page on ALSA), so I blacklisted the HDA Intel to be rid of the HDMI on my ATI video card. The onboard sound is disabled in the BIOS. I do not want to use the onboard sound as the Beyerdynamic headphones I have cannot be driven effectively by the onboard Realtek. So, in other words, I am not using surround sound of any sort, just simple stereo. When I do "aplay -l" the only device listed is the Terratec card, so it should work. I have tried various custom .asoundrc files and the suggestions in the Configuration and Troubleshooting sections in the Wiki.
What I don't understand is why the KDE system sounds work on login and logout. I have not been able to find topics that relate to this exact problem. I have deleted my .asoundrc and cleared the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf file as the ALSA instructions claim they should work with most systems.
(Edited subject to better explain problem) -Vince
Last edited by vinceb (2011-07-08 20:27:49)

Upon futher investigation, apparently knotify4 is tying up my card for some reason, which makes sense as my KDE system sounds work. I believe a recent upgrade to something caused this, but I am not positive which one as it's been a couple weeks since I even used the sound. I know that dmix is supposed to be automatic now and should not require further configuration in a ~/.asoundrc file. I am still stumped - the suggestions I tried from searches were from earlier ALSA versions and thus far havn't worked. I need an ALSA expert!

Hi all, I upgraded my MBP to Lion , but on the screen where i need to type my password, click on my photo and it does not appear the place for me to type my password and it stay stuck there. Can anyone solve this problem for me?

Hi all, I upgraded my MBP to Lion , but on the screen where i need to type my password, click on my photo and it does not appear the place for me to type my password and it stay stuck there. Can anyone solve this problem for me?

Reboot the machine holding Command and r keys down, you'll boot into Lion Recovery Partition
In there will be Disk Utility, use that to select your Lion OS X Partition and Repair Permissions.
After that is done reboot the machine and see if you can log in.
If not repeat the above steps to get into Lion Recovery, get online and reinstall Lion again, it will overwrite the installed version and hopefully after that it wil work.
Reboot and try again.
If not follow my steps to create a Snow Leopard Data Recovery drive, then option boot from it and grab a copy of your files off the machine.
Then reinstall all your programs onto the external drive like setting up a new machine, then use Disk Utility to erase the entire internal boot drive (select the drive media on the far left, not the partiton slightly indented) format Option: GUID , 1 partition OS X Extended and then use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the external to the newly formatted internal drive. Once that is finished reboot and disconnect the external drive.
Once you go that, boot into Snow Leopard and update to 10.6.8, use the AppStore and option click on Purchases and download Lion again and install.
Lots of work, but there is no Lion disks.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16276201#16276201

[SOLVED]No Sound with ALSA - Intel Corporation 82801G HD Audio

Hey all,
I've succesfully installed Arch Linux. My past two attempts have met with failure, all because of my own failure to read and follow directions correctly. This time everything is installed correctly. I am running Kdemod3 on my laptop with Arch and everything works great. I LOVE Pacman and the simplicity of Arch's configuration files. It's super fast and all together simple. My only remaining problem is this:
My sound with ALSA is not functioning. I followed the installation instructions at the arch wiki and after unmuting all of my channels I still would not get any sound. My sound module is snd_hda_intel and it is detected, loaded and the whole nine yards (as far as I can tell). My user is a member of the 'audio' user group also. I looked at the troubleshooting tips on the bottom of the Wiki but decided not to try them as they do not seem to pertain to my card (snd_hda_intel) but I will try them if anyone would like me to.
If anyone has any ideas, they'd be greatly appreciated!:D Anything I can provide that you need I will be more than willing to provide.
Thanks for such a great distribution,
Dan
Last edited by JazzDan (2008-06-29 05:06:35)

Problem resolved. I ran alsaconf, selected my soundcard, and everything was working from there out. Thanks MisfitI38 on the IRC!!!

[Solved] No Sound, No *ALSA*. Whatsoever. Confused.

Hi there, I have a more unique ALSA problem. At least, I searched through the forums and didn't see something like my problem. Which is:
I have no ALSA. Whatsoever. I have no idea how that happened. I do have a sound card.
Well, okay, I'm running Arch on a virtual machine with an emulated soundcard. Virtualbox, sound enabled (Emulating ICH AC97), Host (Debian Lenny)'s ALSA works fine, I'm streaming ETN.fm through Sonata right this moment, with the occasional message chimes coming in from Pidgin.
I installed Arch just fine through the latest Core CD. I've also upgraded the system successfully. I've installed alsa-lib, alsa-util, and alsa-oss. But there's no alsamixer, no alsaconf, no alsa* anything. No clue what's going on! Am I supposed to install Alsa from source now?
Or is there any way I can tell Arch "Hay, you forgot ALSA. Plz get it now"?
Thanks for any info.
Lux
Last edited by feminaexlux (2008-08-28 17:06:19)

Wow, thanks filou. I just reinstalled it after issuing a sync and update and it worked. I was pretty sure that's what I did first after not finding alsamixer at all, but for some reason this time it actually went through. I think pacman just managed to download the file without installing it?
Thanks for the help, all. Sorry for this dumb question

[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.

My sound is like echo and i can't solve the problem with realtek hd audio manager

HP G72 notebook
Windows 7 64 bit
Sound is like echo and can't solve problem with Realtek HD audio manager

It's a Qosmio X300-16M (windows 7 64bit)
I downloaded the last toshiba's sound driver (for win 7 64bit), but it's as if it doesn't contain MaxxAudio anymore... (but the file maxxaudio.dll is still in realtek directory)
It worked correctly after Windows 7 update, (that's why I tried to reinstall the audio drivers which were in the DVD... but it does not have resolved the problem.)
And all my system restore's points have been lost after a wrong bios update or something else (but this isn't a problem anymore)
Now, my computer works correctly, my only problem is that the MaxxAudio tab (from Waves Audio) in the realtek audio manager disappeared... (It just makes a better sound...)
And I just want to know if it's a curent problem or not... and if someone can fix it

Hissing/static sound from both pulseaudio and ALSA

I hear a hissing sound whenever the volume is not muted. At first I thought it was a pulseaudio problem but I still hear it when not using pulseaudio

I think I found the problem but the solution is on a ubuntu ppa. the ppa is https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev … alsa-daily and the package is oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms I think that this is the solution as a user on the ubuntu forums were having the same issue with a similar motherboard http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2234198 . Can anyone help me?

[solved] Issue with conky and Kde 4

I have a small issue with conky and KDE 4.2. I start conky with a script which I stored under ~/.kde/Autostart. The script is simple and looks like this..
conky -c ~/.conkyrc_kde4
This works fine. But when I restart the first KDE and check with ps, I have 2 instances of conky running. The instances keep on growing with the number of restarts.
I think kde tries to restart all the apps which were running when the session was terminated. Is there a way to change this behavior in general or all the programs or for only a specific program like conky ?
Last edited by rangalo (2009-07-28 19:02:17)

I did
Systemsettings > Advanced > Session Manager > Start with an empty session
and put everything you want in Autostart

Sound stuck. Alsa, atiixp and KDE [solved]

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for