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greengold

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Registered: 2010-01-30

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alsa stoped working

Hi all!
from yestorday Im having trouble with alsa on my sound server. After sliding down volume control (via pavuconrol) to mute, alsa is no longer accessible.

here's some output:
when trying to run pulseaudio:

$ pulseaudio 
E: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!
E: alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_emu10k1'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
E: alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.
E: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
E: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1" name="1" card_name="alsa_card.1" tsched=yes ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
E: module-ladspa-sink.c: Master sink not found
E: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-ladspa-sink" (argument: "sink_name=ladspa_output.mbeq_1197.mbeq master= plugin=mbeq_1197 label=mbeq control=5.3,2.6,2.6,-8.5,-10.5,-11.2,-16.0,-14.7,-6.6,-5.7,-3.0,3.0,6.7,7.3,7.3"): initialization failed.
E: main.c: Module load failed.
E: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.

when trying to test sound:

$ speaker-test -c 5

speaker-test 1.0.24.2

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 5 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

Playback open error: -111,Connection refused

loaded modules:

$ lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_emu10k1      121609  0
snd_util_mem     1804    1   snd_emu10k1
snd_intel8x0     22364   0
snd_mpu401       3760    0
snd_ac97_codec   90021   2   snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0
snd_cs4236       22327   0
snd_wavefront    28274   0
snd_wss_lib      18044   2   snd_cs4236,snd_wavefront
snd_pcm          60015   5   snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_cs4236,snd_wss_lib
snd_opl3_lib     7314    2   snd_cs4236,snd_wavefront
snd_timer        15374   4   snd_emu10k1,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep        4942    3   snd_emu10k1,snd_wavefront,snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart  4943    3   snd_mpu401,snd_cs4236,snd_wavefront
snd_rawmidi      15196   3   snd_emu10k1,snd_wavefront,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device   4252    3   snd_emu10k1,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd_page_alloc   5837    4   snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm
snd              43561   14  snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0,snd_mpu401,snd_ac97_codec,snd_cs4236,snd_wavefront,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device

trying alsamixer:

$ alsamixer 
ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

cannot open mixer: Connection refused

I have remove and fresh install pulseaudio already.
Please help me out of here!
Thanks!
please help me

edit:
when I remove pulseaudio, alsamixer is able to start

Last edited by greengold (2011-09-06 10:19:41)

greengold

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Registered: 2010-01-30

Posts: 199

Re: alsa stoped working

solved by

rm -R ~/.pulse