sound problems.. sort of works, snd-ice1724 [solved]

[jcmuse]

hi, all
i follow the gentoo wiki for alsa and sound.
i have an maudio revolution 5.1 and the proper module installed for it (ice1724).
i can get sound with the mozilla flash plugin but the output is to only 1 speaker and it is kind of static-y. also cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp did work but now it just says: bash: /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy

i can't get sound to work with anything else besides the flashplugin.
#mplayer -ao alsa file gives
"Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound."

xine-ui and gxine don't give sound either. i've unmuted everything in alsamixer.

i've compiled my system with -arts alsa -gstreamer
i think xine isn't working properly but i could be wrong.
also, i can't select an output in xmms.

[NeddySeagoon]

jcmuse,

The message /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy means that some other application has the /dev/sound/dsp device file open. It cannot be shared.

Please post the output of

[jcmuse]

sure thing

localhost john # ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 0 Oct 21 06:08 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 Oct 21 06:08 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 Oct 21 06:08 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 17 Oct 21 06:08 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 18 Oct 21 06:08 pcmC0D2p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Oct 20 21:47 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Oct 20 21:47 timer

localhost john # ls -l /dev/sound
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 12 Oct 21 06:08 adsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Oct 21 06:08 audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Oct 21 06:08 dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 Oct 21 06:08 mixer
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 1 Oct 20 21:47 sequencer
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 8 Oct 20 21:47 sequencer2

I'm using xfce, compiled with -arts -gstreamer alsa

i don't use esd or arts that i know of.

also heres a link to what my alsamixer looks like. very confusing to me, have no idea what all those options are:
http://pix.nofrag.com/94/aa/d95b4a87c3f0f860439f3bfc559a.jpeg

btw, i'm not using 5.1. just some speakers plugged into the green port.

[NeddySeagoon]

jcmuse,

Thats all the right answers so far. Your USE -arts doesn't mean you are not using it. Only that you are not building optional support for it. Try

[jcmuse]

john@localhost ~ $ ps -Alf | grep arts
0 R john 5910 5905 0 76 0 - 388 - 11:14 pts/0 00:00:00 grep arts

john@localhost ~ $ ps -Alf | grep esd
0 S john 5912 5905 0 76 0 - 389 pipe_w 11:15 pts/0 00:00:00 grep esd

does that mean it is not running?
how do find the pid ?

this page explains all of the alsamixer controls: http://seehuhn.de/comp/hardware/revolution

i think mine are set correctly, and i now have sound working with flash in both left and right speakers (apparently there is a bug that doesnt save the settings for right channel).

pastebin of asound.state: http://pastebin.ca/213645

[NeddySeagoon]

jcmuse,

Yep -thats good, neither are running. The grep of your process list just found itself.

[jcmuse]

[jcmuse]

also:
localhost john # madplay -v /home/john/09\ \ something\ on\ the\ wing.mp3
MPEG Audio Decoder 0.15.2 (beta) - Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Robert Leslie et al.
00:05:14 Layer III, 192 kbps, 44100 Hz, joint stereo (LR), CRC
12035 frames decoded (0:05:14.3), +0.2 dB peak amplitude, 369 clipped samples

i can play an mp3 fine with madplay. does this also use oss emulation?
arg! so close yet so far.

[NeddySeagoon]

jcmuse,

I don't know madplay. mplayer will do as its told
mplayer -ao alsa, tells it to use alsa
mplayer -ao oss tells it to use OSS.

Alsa compipled in is fine. A few things to check. Run emerge --info and look at your USE.
Is the alsa flag set there ?
If not all optional alsa support is missing from you multimedia apps
_________________
Regards,

NeddySeagoon

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[jcmuse]

It wasn't thought i had put it in there

recompiled mplayer, xine, etc with newuse and all is good

Thanks for your help!