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#1 2009-10-07 23:43:45

renjac
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From: Belgium
Registered: 2007-12-30
Posts: 6

[Solved] sound trouble .. once again

hallo all ... I hope to find some help for my sound trouble after trying to solve it myself  for the past days. I had it working though till I recently did a pacman -Suy.
the information : I have two soundcards (but the onboard one is disabled in BIOS)  and a usb Logitech Sphere webcam/microphone ...

cat /proc/asound/cards;

0 [CA0106         ]: CA0106 - CA0106
                      Live! 7.1 24bit [SB0410] at 0x9000 irq 19
1 [U0x46d0x994    ]: USB-Audio - USB Device 0x46d:0x994
                      USB Device 0x46d:0x994 at usb-0000:00:1d.7-2, high speed

lsmod|grep '^snd';

 
snd_seq_dummy           2696  0 
snd_seq_oss            31168  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      7012  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                53744  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_wavefront          37620  0 
snd_cs4236             30996  0 
snd_pcm_oss            40352  0 
snd_wss_lib            25860  2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_opl3_lib           10340  2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_mixer_oss          17540  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_usb_audio          86304  1 
snd_ca0106             37184  1 
snd_ac97_codec        106088  1 snd_ca0106
snd_mpu401_uart         7524  2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_usb_lib            17252  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hwdep               7656  3 snd_wavefront,snd_opl3_lib,snd_usb_audio
snd_pcm                73512  6 snd_cs4236,snd_pcm_oss,snd_wss_lib,snd_usb_audio,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              21100  4 snd_seq,snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          8876  3 snd_wss_lib,snd_ca0106,snd_pcm
snd_rawmidi            21856  4 snd_wavefront,snd_ca0106,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_usb_lib
snd_seq_device          6768  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd                    58436  21 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236,snd_pcm_oss,snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_mixer_oss,snd_usb_audio,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device

ls -l /dev/snd/

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root       60 okt  8 01:00 by-id
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root       80 okt  8 01:00 by-path
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 12 okt  8 01:00 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 14 okt  8 01:00 controlC1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  3 okt  8 01:00 midiC0D0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 11 okt  8 01:07 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 10 okt  8 03:04 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  9 okt  8 01:00 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  8 okt  8 01:06 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  7 okt  8 01:00 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  6 okt  8 01:06 pcmC0D2p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  5 okt  8 01:00 pcmC0D3c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  4 okt  8 01:00 pcmC0D3p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 13 okt  8 01:07 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 15 okt  8 01:00 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  2 okt  8 01:00 timer

/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

alias snd-card-0 snd-ca0106
alias sound-slot-0 snd-ca0106

alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
alias sound-slot-1 snd-usb-audio

options snd-ca0106 index=0
options snd-usb-audio index=1
options snd-mpu401 audio index=-2

my .asoundrc

pcm.ca0106 {
    type hw
    card 0
}

ctl.ca0106 {
          type hw
          card 0
       }

ctl.mixer {
    type hw
    card CA0106
}

I have been trying out all things I could find, but there just is no sound. Music seems to be playing, but no sound comes out of the boxes.
And using the usb webcam  microphone gives the same picture.
Could somebody please give me some hints ... I like Arch, but WITH sound.

Last edited by renjac (2009-10-08 19:42:50)

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#2 2009-10-08 01:00:23

Inxsible
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Re: [Solved] sound trouble .. once again

I am not sure if you are using alsa or oss.. looks like alsa.

but I have the same issue with oss, where updating the version to 4.2 stopped all sound. So I just simply went back to version 4.1 and added oss to the ignore list in pacman.

I have a thread open, but I too havent been able to figure it out or get a solution sad


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#3 2009-10-08 09:17:26

renjac
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From: Belgium
Registered: 2007-12-30
Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] sound trouble .. once again

For now I am using alsa.  I have been reading articles by people recommending Oss over alsa, but as far as I know there is no support for usb webcams/microphones in Oss ... so I would prefer to solve the problem with alsa. After all it was working before the update .. I am not sure what has changed then ...
Would it be a solution to "roll back"???? Hmmm and how to do that ... never did it before roll
I would love to get tips to get this damn sound working.

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#4 2009-10-08 09:29:54

guzz46
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From: New Zealand
Registered: 2009-06-18
Posts: 190

Re: [Solved] sound trouble .. once again

You can have a look here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dow … er_Version
Should be as simple as uninstalling alsa then downloading and installing the previous version of alsa from the Arch Rollback Machine

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#5 2009-10-08 15:57:22

renjac
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From: Belgium
Registered: 2007-12-30
Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] sound trouble .. once again

Thanks for the replies. Somehow I seem to have it solved, just not sure how exactly. First I did something I had not done yet: test my sound not in a music player or on Skype, but in my (Opera) browser. So I went to YouTube and tried to play something. Now it was very very quiet, but there was some sound. So I started fiddling with the buttons in the mixer : brought the master volume to 95% .. it was a bit louder again ... then changed the master channel from analog center to analog front .... and lo and behold : my sound was back. then the next step was skype .. but that now also did not take too long. so although I am not sure what exactly did it .. I have sound again and am quite happy about that.

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#6 2009-10-08 17:02:42

Inxsible
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Re: [Solved] sound trouble .. once again

As an aside, you can always roll back to a previous version by using pacman

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/<name of package with appropriate version number>

Obviously, the above will only work if you haven't cleared the cache after your upgrade.



EDIT : Also if you could mark the thread solved, it would be great !

Last edited by Inxsible (2009-10-08 17:03:53)


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#7 2009-10-08 19:42:16

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Re: [Solved] sound trouble .. once again

Thanks for the info Inxsible. That might come in handy sooner or later, since there are more problems ahead that I have to face now that the sound issue is solved .. at least for now.

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