ALSA problems

Lenry · 2012-01-19 21:44:08

After some update months ago, my computer muted. When I look in to the Phonon settings I realized, that my sound card disappeared from the list, which now contains two elements:
-Belső hangforrás analóg sztereó (which is in hungarian, roughly translates to "Inner sound source analogue stereo", I don't know what it's english name, sorry)
and GF104 Digital etcetcetc, what is my graphics card, it' not relevant now.

Than I set the first item, to be the default player device, which turns to be a half-solution, because since then only one sound source can be active at a time, anything else will be "speechless", Amarok became really buggy, and freezy, it can thinks 3-4 minutes between two tracks...
And at boot the sound is always muted.

I am in the audio group. I read and tried everything from the wiki page of the ALSA (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALSA)

alsaconf runs without problem, a reports that everything is fine. alsamixer doesn't even start, it says cannot open mixer: No such device

I tried to search for that, but nothing useful... Please help me, as I ran out of ideas...

Lenry

natestar13 · 2012-01-19 22:30:18

See this post
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93475

Make sure that you have a default device set in /.asoundrc . It should look similar to this

pcm.!default {
    type hw
    card 0
    device 3
}

You can determine which output audio device to use by typing the following command, which will list all audio outputs available.

aplay -l

You can also test each audio output with the following command, replacing "0,3" with your audio hardware and device number (found from aplay -l)

 aplay -D plughw:0,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

brebs · 2012-01-20 02:15:06

natestar13 wrote:

type hw

You're disabling dmix - bad idea. See my sig below, for a proper example of decent dmixing.

Lenry · 2012-01-23 21:59:32

natestar13 wrote:

See this post
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93475
Make sure that you have a default device set in /.asoundrc . It should look similar to this
pcm.!default {
    type hw
    card 0
    device 3
}
You can determine which output audio device to use by typing the following command, which will list all audio outputs available.
aplay -l
You can also test each audio output with the following command, replacing "0,3" with your audio hardware and device number (found from aplay -l)
 aplay -D plughw:0,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

It didn't help. Still only one sound source.
I didn't inculde 'type hw'

If I issue the command aplay -D plughw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav i got back the error message:
aplay: main:660: audio open error: Az eszköz vagy erőforrás foglalt (translates to: device or resource is busy)

Lenry · 2012-01-29 16:09:44

do anyone has any idea?

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#1 2012-01-19 21:44:08

ALSA problems

#2 2012-01-19 22:30:18

Re: ALSA problems

#3 2012-01-20 02:15:06

Re: ALSA problems

#4 2012-01-23 21:59:32

Re: ALSA problems

#5 2012-01-29 16:09:44

Re: ALSA problems

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