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IvanMaldonado

Member

Registered: 2016-05-17

Posts: 2

No Audio

Problem:

I can't reproduce any sound on my computer.

First appeared when:

I was playing with LMMS and I was using High pitched waveforms a bit too loud and this killed my audio, it is the second time this happens to me, but in the first time all I had to do was unmuting the master in the ALSAmixer.

What did not help:

    Rebooting.

    Adding or removing my user to the audio group.

    Googling. Other threads and this forum.

       
Additional info:

    Unmuting the master channel in alsamixer fixes nothing but unmuting the microphone lets me hear my voice.
    I've booted with Windows and the sound works fine.

(Stuff that was requested from others which had similar problems. No other [solved]-threads were helping me so far.)

    /dev/audio does not exist.

EDIT: I just found out I am using a dummy output but it doesn't recognize my hardware, any help?

Last edited by IvanMaldonado (2016-05-17 02:21:27)

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,672

Re: No Audio

LMMS starts a fluidsynth daemon and often doesn't quit it properly afterwards, check your

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

to see if that is the case and your card is being hogged by the fluidsynth daemon. Post

aplay -Ll #Uppercase followed by lowercase L
#If you are using pulseaudio
pacmd list-cards
pacmd list-sinks

if that isn't already enough to identify the problem.

If the fluidsynth daemon is to blame, you should configure it properly by amending configuration in /etc/conf.d (and maybe starting it explicitly to prevent LMMS from spawning its own instance)

Last edited by V1del (2016-05-17 07:30:07)

IvanMaldonado

Member

Registered: 2016-05-17

Posts: 2

Re: No Audio

I fixed it by deleting ~/.config/pulse

It is weird how some problems get solved by the easiest way posible.