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Deusdies

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Registered: 2010-09-13

Posts: 116

PulseAudio does not see my card (and I have to use PulseAudio)

ALSA works fine.

To be specific, pavucontrol does not see my card (only sees my ATI HD5700 graphic card as HDMI output under "output")

Here's aplay -l:

card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Card info

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a002
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
        Memory at fe024000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

Interesting thing that happens:

[bogdan@galaxy alsa]$ aplay -Dplughw:0,0 -fcd Front_Center.wav 
aplay: main:660: audio open error: Device or resource busy

The reason I have to use PulseAudio is stupid skype that crashes on start without it installed.

Help?

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moetunes

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From: A comfortable couch

Registered: 2010-10-09

Posts: 1,033

Re: PulseAudio does not see my card (and I have to use PulseAudio)

There is a pulseaudio-alsa package. Is that installed?
Cheers

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Deusdies

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Registered: 2010-09-13

Posts: 116

Re: PulseAudio does not see my card (and I have to use PulseAudio)

Yep, that's the one I have installed. However it looks like the problem fixed itself. The sound now works, HOWEVER, I have a 5.1 system and only center, rears, and the sub works. Left and Right (main) don't. pavucontrol is set to 5.1 output. When I turn down the individual volumes of main left and main right, the center speaker is the one that actually is turned down. It's as if PulseAudio thinks that center speaker somehow represents both main left and right.

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Deusdies

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Registered: 2010-09-13

Posts: 116

Re: PulseAudio does not see my card (and I have to use PulseAudio)

Solved following this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1293911 , no need to do steps 4 and after in my case.

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