Sound does not work all of the sudden. Pls help

MrVahn · Apprentice Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 227 Location: Makati

I have configured ALSA and enabled the sound card via kernel (not alsa-drivers). It worked for quite some time until one day I didn't. I did not know what happened. It just disappeared from all of my sound producing apps, therefore, not producing any sound at all! Mplayer vids with no sound, websites do not play sounds, and audacious complains. I tried to reconfigure alsa but to no avail

. All I can remember before sound became extint in my system is that I have been trying to configure cups (which does not work until now lol).

Non_E · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:35 am Post subject: Alsa

I am no expert but have you tried running alsaconf?

mirojira · l33t Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 685

What audacious complains about? Could you send more info like lsmod and could you run command

MrVahn · Apprentice Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 227 Location: Makati

I have done everything I can. I rechecked if the kernel has the required modules, run alsaconf, but has not run /etc/init.d/alsa restart. I reboot my machine and logged on in my m$ partition to see if it works in there. Then I went back to gentoo and ran audacious.

To my surprise it worked. LOL.

Thanks guys.

PS: Weird that it had disappeared and reappeared all of the sudden.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject:

MrVahn,

Please post the output of

MrVahn · Apprentice Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 227 Location: Makati

Ok.

ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 0 2007-01-15 07:15 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2007-01-15 07:15 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2007-01-15 07:15 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 25 2007-01-15 07:15 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 17 2007-01-15 07:15 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 2007-01-15 07:15 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2007-01-15 07:15 timer

ls -l /dev/sound
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 12 2007-01-15 07:15 adsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 2007-01-15 07:15 audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2007-01-15 07:15 dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 2007-01-15 07:15 mixer

Here it is. I hope this says something about the problem. The sound still works fine. I don't know if it will dissappear again. lol.

nickrout · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:05 am Post subject:

A couple of tips:

Sometimes the flash player in firefox jams up the soundcard on pages like youtube. Close anything with flash open and sound comes back - usually.

Please also note that on my machine if you do /etc/init.d/alsasound restart while firefox is running with a flash window open, it kills firefox. Bummer if you haven't yet saved your bookmarks.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:10 pm Post subject:

MrVahn,

That shows your kernel is in good shape, since you have all the common ALSA and OSS emulation device special files.
It looks like your mixer settings are in a mess.

Start from the beginning with the mixer. Mute everything except PCM and master.
You should now be able to play sound files from your hard drive

Many sound cards can only run one sampe rate at a time, 44.1kHz (CD Audio) or 48kHz (Digital Audio).
Unless you need SPDI/F, be sure that all controls with IEC in their names are muted as this seems to get priority of analogue.
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MrVahn · Apprentice Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 227 Location: Makati

Thanks for your help guys.

The firefox issue is a bug right? Is there a way to solve it?