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#1 2011-01-10 19:04:10
- Kei
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[SOLVED] (Almost) No sound: pulseaudio, Audigy2
Hi,
For a while now I have huge problems with my sound. I think I messed something up while playing with Alsa. Now I have no sound at all - except for the startup and shutdown sounds in KDE.
I'm trying to configure pulseaudio for my system. I followed the steps on the wiki. Here's my situation:
- I have two soundcards installed: Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P] (emu10k1) and the graphics-card-onboard HDMI "soundcard" of my ATI Radeon 5770. I want to use the Audigy card.
- I blacklisted 'snd-pcm-oss'. The modules needed are loaded:
$ lsmod|grep snd
snd_hda_codec_atihdmi 2739 1
snd_seq_dummy 1431 0
snd_seq_oss 28760 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5436 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50082 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_emu10k1 140847 2
snd_rawmidi 19237 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec 110751 1 snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus 1174 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device 5297 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_util_mem 2328 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hda_intel 22285 0
snd_hda_codec 79384 2 snd_hda_codec_atihdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6110 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 71921 4 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 19265 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd 57562 15 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 5969 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7249 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm- I have connected my external amplifier via the digital out of my card. I know that this connection is good, because I hear the startup and shutdown sound of KDE.
- There is no sound in KDE's multimedia configuration (phonon) via the "test sound" button. I have tried gstreamer, xine and vlc backend. Gstreamer is configured to use pulseaudio, as described in the wiki.
- There is no sound in VLC (explicitly set to use pulseaudio), mplayer, amarok, aplay, play.
- pulseaudio is running:
$ ps aux | grep pulse
kevin 4693 0.0 0.1 242520 6188 ? S<sl 18:51 0:01 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
kevin 4701 0.0 0.0 182864 3800 ? Sl 18:51 0:00 /usr/lib/pulse/gconf-helper
kevin 27979 0.0 0.0 8844 948 pts/1 S+ 19:31 0:00 grep pulse- I have installed the packages for pulseaudio and alsa, 64 and 32 bit (tried reinstalling all of them):
$ pacman -Ss "pulseaudio|alsa" | grep installed
extra/alsa-firmware 1.0.23-1 [installed]
extra/alsa-lib 1.0.23-2 [installed]
extra/alsa-oss 1.0.17-1 [installed]
extra/alsa-plugins 1.0.23-2 [installed]
extra/alsa-utils 1.0.23-3 [installed]
extra/pulseaudio 0.9.22-2 [installed]
extra/pulseaudio-alsa 1-2 (pulseaudio-gnome) [installed]
multilib/lib32-alsa-lib 1.0.23-4 [installed]
multilib/lib32-alsa-oss 1.0.17-2 [installed]
multilib/lib32-alsa-plugins 1.0.23-6 [installed]
multilib/lib32-libcanberra-pulse 0.26-3 [installed]
multilib/lib32-libpulse 0.9.22-1 [installed]- /etc/asound.conf:
# Use PulseAudio by default
pcm.!default {
type pulse
hint.description "Default Audio Device"
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
# Explicit PulseAudio device
pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}
# vim:set ft=alsaconf:- kmix (version 3.7 on KDE 4.5.4) shows the UNMUTED pulseaudio device
- Only pulseaudio accesses /dev/snd:
$ fuser -v /dev/snd/*
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: kevin 4693 F.... pulseaudio
$ fuser -v /dev/dsp
Specified filename /dev/dsp does not exist.
$ lsof |grep /dev/snd
pulseaudi 4693 kevin 28u CHR 116,14 0t0 5297 /dev/snd/controlC0
pulseaudi 4693 kevin 33u CHR 116,14 0t0 5297 /dev/snd/controlC0
alsa-sink 4693 4698 kevin 28u CHR 116,14 0t0 5297 /dev/snd/controlC0
alsa-sink 4693 4698 kevin 33u CHR 116,14 0t0 5297 /dev/snd/controlC0
alsa-sink 4693 4699 kevin 28u CHR 116,14 0t0 5297 /dev/snd/controlC0
alsa-sink 4693 4699 kevin 33u CHR 116,14 0t0 5297 /dev/snd/controlC0
alsa-sour 4693 4700 kevin 28u CHR 116,14 0t0 5297 /dev/snd/controlC0
alsa-sour 4693 4700 kevin 33u CHR 116,14 0t0 5297 /dev/snd/controlC0I hope anyone wants to help me with this. I really like to listen to music again (:
kevin
Last edited by Kei (2011-01-11 12:22:10)
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#2 2011-01-10 19:17:46
- lucke
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Re: [SOLVED] (Almost) No sound: pulseaudio, Audigy2
Install pavucontrol and fiddle with it: see what soundcards it uses and what programs are connected to pulseaudio.
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#3 2011-01-10 20:21:53
- Kei
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Re: [SOLVED] (Almost) No sound: pulseaudio, Audigy2
Install pavucontrol and fiddle with it: see what soundcards it uses and what programs are connected to pulseaudio.
When I play music, I see the program and it's volume level in pavucontrol, but I don't hear anything. I tried using different profiles in the configuration tab, but only "Analog Stereo Duplex" works; every other setting causes KDE to switch to "Juniper HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5700 Series]" (which I don't want to use).
Maybe a problem with ALSA?
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#4 2011-01-11 00:43:15
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Re: [SOLVED] (Almost) No sound: pulseaudio, Audigy2
Each program's sound output can be assigned to a sink.
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#5 2011-01-11 12:21:47
- Kei
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Re: [SOLVED] (Almost) No sound: pulseaudio, Audigy2
Finally I managed to get some output: I set the profile to "Digital Stereo (IEC058) Output + Analog Stereo Input" and _restarted_ pavucontrol.
Thanks for your help!
regards,
kevin
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