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#1 2010-10-20 20:54:55
- Kei
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[SOLVED] alsa: remove unneeded sound card (ATI HDMI)
Hi everybody,
I got an ATI graphics card with built-in HDMI sound card. ALSA wants to use that card, instead of my Creative Audigy 2.
I have sound in KDE applications, but nowhere else, i.e. VLC or mplayer.
I followed the suggestions found in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44465, but setting the default.[ctl|pcm].card values didn't work for me. I read http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/MultipleCards too, but honestly, I haven't understood much.
How can I either deactivate the graphic's card sound card, or otherwise set the priority for the Audigy sound card in a way, that it is used by all applications?
Regards,
kei
The sound cards plus subdevices:
chuck::kevin ~ !! 0 !!
$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Generic ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
HD-Audio Generic at 0xfbdbc000 irq 43
1 [Audigy2 ]: Audigy2 - SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]
SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P] (rev.4, serial:0x10021102) at 0xec00, irq 21
chuck::kevin ~ !! 0 !!
$ aplay -v /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
Plug PCM: Hardware PCM card 1 'SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]' device 0 subdevice 0
Its setup is:
stream : PLAYBACK
access : RW_INTERLEAVED
format : S16_LE
subformat : STD
channels : 1
rate : 48000
exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
msbits : 16
buffer_size : 24000
period_size : 6000
period_time : 125000
tstamp_mode : NONE
period_step : 1
avail_min : 6000
period_event : 0
start_threshold : 24000
stop_threshold : 24000
silence_threshold: 0
silence_size : 0
boundary : 6755399441055744000
appl_ptr : 0
hw_ptr : 0
chuck::kevin ~ !! 0 !!
$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Audigy2 [SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]], device 0: emu10k1 [ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback]
Subdevices: 32/32
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
Subdevice #8: subdevice #8
Subdevice #9: subdevice #9
Subdevice #10: subdevice #10
Subdevice #11: subdevice #11
Subdevice #12: subdevice #12
Subdevice #13: subdevice #13
Subdevice #14: subdevice #14
Subdevice #15: subdevice #15
Subdevice #16: subdevice #16
Subdevice #17: subdevice #17
Subdevice #18: subdevice #18
Subdevice #19: subdevice #19
Subdevice #20: subdevice #20
Subdevice #21: subdevice #21
Subdevice #22: subdevice #22
Subdevice #23: subdevice #23
Subdevice #24: subdevice #24
Subdevice #25: subdevice #25
Subdevice #26: subdevice #26
Subdevice #27: subdevice #27
Subdevice #28: subdevice #28
Subdevice #29: subdevice #29
Subdevice #30: subdevice #30
Subdevice #31: subdevice #31
card 1: Audigy2 [SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]], device 2: emu10k1 efx [Multichannel Capture/PT Playback]
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 1: Audigy2 [SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]], device 3: emu10k1 [Multichannel Playback]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Audigy2 [SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]], device 4: p16v [p16v]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0Last edited by Kei (2010-10-23 09:49:18)
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#2 2010-10-22 20:09:26
- Kei
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Re: [SOLVED] alsa: remove unneeded sound card (ATI HDMI)
(bump, because the whole text changed)
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#3 2010-10-22 20:51:00
- skunktrader
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Re: [SOLVED] alsa: remove unneeded sound card (ATI HDMI)
I have a Creative XFi that I want to be recognized as the default card. I added this to /etc/asound.conf
pcm.!default {
type hw
card XFi
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card XFi
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#4 2010-10-22 22:05:25
- Darksoul71
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Re: [SOLVED] alsa: remove unneeded sound card (ATI HDMI)
Another approach is to completely blacklist the corresponding module for your sound card. I did the same for the HDMI sound chip on my ATI HD4670 as well as for my Intel HDA onboard soundcard.
My archlinux x86_64 host:
AMD E350 (2x1.6GHz) / 8GB DDR3 RAM / GeForce 9500GT (passive) / Arch running from 16GB USB Stick
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#5 2010-10-22 22:42:20
- Kei
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Re: [SOLVED] alsa: remove unneeded sound card (ATI HDMI)
skunktrader, Darksoul71, thanks for your suggestions!
The asound.conf method didn't work for me, so I blacklisted the modules for my ATI graphics card as well as for my onboard soundcard. Now, alsa sees only one soundcard, which is good.
Unfortunately, I still have the same problem: sound only works in KDE applications, but nowhere else. I tried 'play', 'aplay', VLC and mplayer, once again.
Do I have to select a specific subdevice? (see listing in first post)
I'm looking forward to any suggestions..
EDIT: it seems that the volume controls, especially the master channel, have no effect (exception: HD SPDIF Front controls the volume of the digital out) - there is no way to adjust the volume of the analog outputs. This applies to alsamixer as well as to kmix (KDE mixer application).
EDIT2: Should I post this problem in a new thread?
Last edited by Kei (2010-10-22 23:03:24)
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#6 2010-10-23 00:21:37
- Cdh
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Re: [SOLVED] alsa: remove unneeded sound card (ATI HDMI)
Asoundconf always did a good job for me:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23382
chris@chrispc ~ % asoundconf list
Names of available sound cards:
NVidia
HDMI
SAA7134
chris@chrispc ~ % asoundconf set-default-card NVidia
chris@chrispc ~ %It creates a ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf which should be included from ~/.asoundrc.
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#7 2010-10-23 09:48:57
- Kei
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Re: [SOLVED] alsa: remove unneeded sound card (ATI HDMI)
I fixed it now, using the alsa-project's wiki: http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/ … le-emu10k1
Thanks again,
kei
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