On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 22:13 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008 18:01, Mark C. Allman wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 22:43 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > On Wednesday 13 February 2008 21:34, Frank Chiulli wrote: > > > > > > Nigel, > > > > I have a Sound Blaster Live! Value. This is an older machine. F8 > > > > detected the card automatically. Unfortunately I can't tell you > > > > exactly when I got the error. I had tried lots of things to get sound > > > > to work but never did. It wasn't a big deal. Then I was looking at > > > > something else when I was the error. I figured that I would take a > > > > look at it. It seems like an easy fix. It seems pretty obvious to me > > > > what was wrong. So I corrected it. Then sound worked. > > > > > > > > Frank > > > > > > Thanks for the reply Frank. I was hoping that you would say that your > > > card was also an isa one, and would tie it in with Aarons problems. > > > > > > It's nice to see that both of you have resolved the problem, but what's > > > going on to cause these problems is beyond me. > > > > > > As you see from what I posted above, my audigy2 soundblaster was detected > > > ok, and apart from disabling pulseaudio by removing > > > alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, and adding the usual lines to /etc/modprobe.conf > > > for my usb midi keyboard that uses snd-usb-audio, the sounds are working > > > ok. > > > > > > Anyway, the fact that both you and Aaron now have sounds is the main > > > thing. Quite why you've both had problems, and me none, I've no idea. > > > That's computers for you. > > > > > > Nigel. > > > Mark says: > > When I run the "alsa-info.sh" script I see an error message when it > > tries to collect the data that says something like "no soundcard found." > > I think it's the same error that I see when I run aplay to list out > > cards: > > [mcallman@prez tmp]$ aplay -l > > aplay: device_list:205: no soundcards found... > > > > Also, when I look at the script results, I see the following at about > > line 65 (this is after I tried "model=toshiba" in modprobe.conf even > > though my laptop is a Dell XPS 1710): > > Loaded sound module option > > -------------------------- > > Module: snd_hda_intel > > enable : N > > id : <NULL> > > index : 0 > > model : toshiba > > position_fix : 0 > > power_save : 0 > > power_save_controller : Y > > probe_mask : -1 > > single_cmd : N > > > > Could the "enable: N" line be the key here? For those of you that have > > sound working, what do you see listed for "enable?" > > > > If it helps, you can look at all the test results that the script > > uploaded at: > > http://pastebin.ca/903970 > > > > > > -- Mark C. Allman, PMP > > > Hi Mark. I've sort of lost the plot a bit, but do you have your sound working > now? > > I ask because the Alsa development folks are working hard on resolving > problems, particularly with the hda intel cards. Alsa driver 1.0.16 has just > been released, and I see many patches being applied to the hda intel codecs, > including your STAC9200 one. > > Nigel. Sound works using: Pidgin VLC (playing Rush/Tom Sawyer right now) RealAudio It does not work for: gnome-cd (won't start a track) grip (starts reading tracks, but no sound) aplay/arecord ("no soundcard found") Flash in Firefox system-config-soundcard (everything's there--just no sound!!) I can pipe a ".au" file (if I remember the extension correctly) to /dev/audio and I hear it. Some "/proc/asound" stuff: [mcallman@prez X11]$ ls /proc/asound/ card0 cards devices hwdep Intel modules oss pcm seq timers version [mcallman@prez X11]$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xdfffc000 irq 21 [mcallman@prez X11]$ ls /proc/asound/card0 codec#0 codec#1 id oss_mixer pcm0c pcm0p pcm1p [mcallman@prez X11]$ cat /proc/asound/pcm 00-01: STAC92xx Digital : STAC92xx Digital : playback 1 00-00: STAC92xx Analog : STAC92xx Analog : playback 1 : capture 1 [mcallman@prez X11]$ cat /proc/asound/modules 0 snd_hda_intel [mcallman@prez X11]$ cat /proc/asound/devices 2: : timer 3: : sequencer 4: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback 5: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 6: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 7: [ 0- 1]: hardware dependent 8: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent 9: [ 0] : control [mcallman@prez X11]$ ls -ld /proc/asound/Intel lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2008-02-14 20:18 /proc/asound/Intel -> card0 Any suggestions would be welcome. If any of the Alsa development folks would like a test bed to try out ideas just let me know. -- Mark C. Allman, PMP -- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc. -- www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263 BusinessMsg -- the secure, managed, J2EE/AJAX Enterprise IM/IC solution
