On Friday 15 February 2008 02:35, Mark C. Allman wrote: > 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 Hi Mark. I know I've got pulseaudio on the brain, as I had problems with it, and disabled it, but have you got the default install of F8, where pulseaudio is enabled? I ask because of the sound apps that you have working. Realplayer uses OSS, VLC uses natively OSS, or Alsa, and also Gnomes ESD. Not sure about Pidgin (Gaim), but I believe it uses OSS for it's sounds. Puzzling why Alsa apps won't work. If you havn't messed with pulseaudio since installing F8, I think I'd do a: yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio having done that I'd see if now aplay, audio cd's, etc work. Enough for now. Nigel.
