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TheWitePony
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 Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:14 am Post subject: I broke my sound somehow.... |
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Not sure what I did, but I no longer have any sound. I was runng several programs that could output sound at the same time (amaork, Kaffine, kmplayer, gaim) when it stopped. I think it may have been when I added kmplayer to the mix. Not sure how to diagnose the problem, so heres some general info.
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albert@albert-linux ~ $ lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_seq_midi 7136 0
snd_mixer_oss 17536 0
snd_intel8x0 29696 0
snd_ens1371 20196 0
snd_rawmidi 21088 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_ens1371
snd_ac97_codec 82428 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ens1371
nvidia 3708264 12
usblp 11840 1
ohci_hcd 19332 0
ehci_hcd 29192 0
forcedeth 17472 0
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I have two sound cards, but I'm only using the Creative PCI one. Thats the snd_ens1371. The onther one is the on-board nforce one, snd_intel8x0.
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albert@albert-linux ~ $ ls -l /dev/*dsp*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep 6 17:27 /dev/adsp -> sound/adsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 12 Sep 4 20:34 /dev/adsp0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Sep 6 17:27 /dev/adsp1 -> sound/adsp1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 6 17:27 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Sep 4 20:33 /dev/dsp0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep 6 17:27 /dev/dsp1 -> sound/dsp1
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Also....
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albert@albert-linux ~ $ cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp
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...no longer produces that lovely static sound, it makes no sound at all.
And yes, the speakers are on...
I was just looking through dmesg and this was interesting.
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Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.9b (Thu Jul 28 12:20:13 2005 UTC).
ALSA device list:
No soundcards found.
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Where are ALSA soundcards set? |
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Vortex375
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Location: Deutschland
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Where are ALSA soundcards set? |
In /etc/modules.d/alsa.
This sounds very strange. So you were outputting sound and it suddenly stopped working? And it doesn't work again after a reboot or at least a restart of alsasound?
I've never heard of something like that, sorry. Are you sure, that the speakers are working?  |
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TheWitePony
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:32 am Post subject: |
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heres my /etc/modules.d/alsa
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# Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file.
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,v 1.4 2004/11/16 01
:31:22 eradicator Exp $
# ALSA portion
# OSS/Free portion
##
## IMPORTANT:
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)
## and then run `update-modules' command.
## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.
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## ALSA portion
## alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave
alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
## OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
##
# OSS/Free portion - card #1
## OSS/Free portion - card #2
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
# Set this to the correct number of cards.
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.9a ---
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
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Thats exactly what happened, it just stopped. Everything was working fine and then I had no sound. Rebooting and restarting /etc/init.d/alsasound makes no difference. |
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mattjgalloway
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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I've just experienced this exact same thing and it's really annoying!
My nvidia graphics card also just stopped outputing TV-Out which is real odd also.
Did you fix yours yet?
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TheWitePony
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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It been so long I can't really remember what my problem was, or how exactly I fixed it. But about a month ago I decided to get rid of arts, simpliy because it was the source of so many problems.
Even after getting the sound ON with arts, I was having all sorts of issues. I was getting some performance problems with amarok and really having trouble outputing sound to more than one app at a time. So I just got rid of arts and am using straight alsa with dmix and I haven't had any problems since.
You may want to look into getting rid of arts if you are having the same sort of problem. arts seems like a good idea, but I don't think it's quite there yet. |
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mattjgalloway
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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I use dmix anyway, so it can't be that for me!
Grrr I'm so confused. My sound and video stopping working is so annoying...
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mattjgalloway
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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Ah I'm taking back my mobo and graphics card tomorrow so hopefully they'll find them faulty and I can get them replaced.
So strange that this should happen after almost a year (just within a few months of my warranty so I'm pretty pleased it's not happened slightly later!!!)
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