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Bedtimes

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Registered: 2009-09-26

Posts: 33

Moved PCI card. Only mplayer produces sound.

So yeah, I moved the PCI card in my machine and now I can't hear anything from aplay, play, vlc, or amarok. I can however hear music through mplayer.

There are no error messages that I can see.

Does anybody have any idea how to troubleshoot this? I'm assuming that something I have installed ALSA or pulseaudio is setup to remember the old location of the card or something which has changed...?

Thanks a lot.

edit:
Something interesting I've noticed is that when I check the audio output preference information inside the pulseaudio configuration in Amarok it now only shows one option 'Pulseaudio Sound Server'. It used to show all of the different outputs, I think.

Last edited by Bedtimes (2011-04-04 20:04:26)

Bedtimes

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Registered: 2009-09-26

Posts: 33

Re: Moved PCI card. Only mplayer produces sound.

cat /proc/asound/modules
 0 snd_ctxfi
 1 snd_mpu401
 2 snd_hda_intel
 3 snd_usb_audio

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 0: ctxfi [Front/WaveIn]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 0: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 1: ctxfi [Surround]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 0: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 2: ctxfi [Center/LFE]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 0: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 3: ctxfi [Side]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 0: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 4: ctxfi [IEC958 Non-audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
...

lsmod | grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_hda_codec_hdmi  20024  4
snd_usb_audio       70888  1
snd_usbmidi_lib     15361  1   snd_usb_audio
snd_hda_intel       18988  0
snd_seq_dummy       1119   0
snd_wavefront       28301  0
snd_hda_codec       64796  2   snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_ctxfi           78704  2
snd_seq_oss         25232  0
snd_cs4236          21996  0
snd_seq_midi_event  4568   1   snd_seq_oss
snd_seq             41912  5   snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_wss_lib         17862  2   snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_opl3_lib        7338   2   snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_pcm_oss         33950  0
snd_mixer_oss       15366  1   snd_pcm_oss
snd_mpu401          3800   0
snd_hwdep           4804   4   snd_usb_audio,snd_wavefront,snd_hda_codec,snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart     4967   3   snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236,snd_mpu401
snd_pcm             59496  8   snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_ctxfi,snd_cs4236,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm_oss
snd_rawmidi         15512  3   snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_wavefront,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device      4409   5   snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer           15687  4   snd_seq,snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
snd                 43987  27  snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_intel,snd_wavefront,snd_hda_codec,snd_ctxfi,snd_seq_oss,snd_cs4236,snd_seq,snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_mpu401,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc      6053   4   snd_hda_intel,snd_ctxfi,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm

ls /dev/snd
by-id      controlC1  hwC2D0  hwC2D3    pcmC0D0p  pcmC0D3p  pcmC2D7p  pcmC3D0c
by-path    controlC2  hwC2D1  midiC1D0  pcmC0D1p  pcmC0D4p  pcmC2D8p  seq
controlC0  controlC3  hwC2D2  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D2p  pcmC2D3p  pcmC2D9p  timer

Last edited by Bedtimes (2011-04-04 19:57:30)

Bedtimes

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Registered: 2009-09-26

Posts: 33

Re: Moved PCI card. Only mplayer produces sound.

Okay. I fiddled with pulseaudio and I now have sound. Unfortunately it's really distorted. It sounds like the sample rate is really low or something...

This is somehow related to the number of channels I have selected -- well it is on Amarok.

...lol, so it seems that I need to go into phonon on Amarok and changing it to 7.1 audio output fixes VLC...

Last edited by Bedtimes (2011-04-04 21:12:22)