ALSA - Failed setting HW params.. [SOLVED]

iagoiago · n00b Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 25

hello gentooers,
after doing a major upgrade, most sound apps come up with this error (including aplay). mplayer keeps working.
my sound chip is hda-intel and i've tried both the in-kernel alsa module and the external one.
the mixer is alright, esound is off, i'm out of ideas.. :S
thanks in advance!

btw, does anyone know if the beryl ebuild has already fallen behind the compiz one?

hoschi

Here the same with AC97 (INTEL ICH-6).
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

See wiki. I suggest going back to the previous, working kernel you had.

Ray ishido · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:38 pm Post subject:

same pb here

hoschi · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject:

Seron · >=media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.14 >=media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.14a-r1

As a temporary workaround I added

Koxta · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:28 am Post subject:

Everything works fine here:

Da Fox · Guru Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 341

Just to say that I have the same problem after updating alsalib and alsa-utils.
Mplayer works, artsd crashes, and at first also wine was affected. Revdep-rebuild does not help.

The strange thing about wine was that revdep-rebuild thought that everything was fine, but wine kept complaining that it could not find some symbols [in alsa]. So I thought I'd just manually "emerge -1 wine". So then wine tells me that I need to first emerge alsa with the 'midi' useflag. That's strange, because both wine and alsa are already installed! Anyway I added the "midi" useflag, reemerged alsalib, then wine, and now sound works again in wine.
After that I reemerged arts, but that does not seem to make a difference.
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Ancestor · n00b Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 72

i had similar situation..
after alsa update to 1.0.14a sound stopped working correctly..
it was impossible to play sound from more than one source with errors saying that device is busy, etc..
i've lost nearly 6 hours to figure it out, and without success..

the only solution i've found was to downgrade alsa-libs, alsa-headers, alsa-utils and alsa-tools to version 1.0.13
now sound is working fine again

trakon88 · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject:

Hello,

I have the same problem. Are there any solutions found than downgrade?

greetings aleX

P.S. Downgrade does not solve the artsd is not starting problem (I just tried)

This is what I get trying to start artsd manually:
ALSA lib pcm_rate.c:1325:(snd_pcm_rate_open) Cannot open library for type samplerate
artsd: pcm.c:695: snd_pcm_close: Assertion `pcm' failed.

hoschi · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject:

hoschi · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:37 pm Post subject:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189155
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iagoiago · n00b Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 25

I have the conexant venice chipset and downgrading alsa-lib and stuff was the only solution to me (using the in-kernel drivers). i don't know about arts but esd functions perfectly.

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

Did you guys play with the new ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS variable? Add some plugins, or add all of them, and you should be fine.

trakon88 · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject:

Hi everybody,

for me the issue is not solved. I tried all the above and still artsd doesn't start.

I get this:
alex@cube ~ $ artsd
ALSA lib pcm_rate.c:1381:(snd_pcm_rate_open) Cannot find rate converter

any suggestions?

aleX

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

Reading the bug report (stabilization bug for alsa .14) it seems that using a desktop profil makes portage _not_ set every PCM plugin by default. So in case you got something like this,

trakon88 · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:36 am Post subject:

Hi everybody,

thank you very much. I already added:
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="alaw copy dshare dsnoop extplug null shm adpcm file hooks ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi rate route share"
to /etc/make.conf
I did : emerge -evD alsa-lib audiofile && emerge arts kdelibs
tonight
all this did not help. I also tried build in kernel modules and alsa-drivers still artsd is failing ...
what else can help?

aleX

P.S. I also tried: ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="route" only - did not help

SOLVED

OK my fault! I solved everything by deleting /etc/asound.conf as suggested by emerge

SOLVED for me!!

zoe · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 324 Location: Greece

please,can you explain how you did it.i have the same problem with my card after a major upgrade (intel Family IC6).i mean the commands you used
for me,when i type
#artsd

i get
unix_connect: can't connect to server (unix:/tmp/ksocket-zoe/zoe.zoe-gen.local-1c3f-46db0cf3)
artsd: pcm_plug.c:67: snd_pcm_plug_close: Assertion `plug->gen.slave == plug->req_slave' failed.
Aborted
any replies will be really helpfull
thanks in advance

trakon88 · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:17 pm Post subject:

Hi,

try this:
echo ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="alaw copy dshare dsnoop extplug null shm adpcm file hooks ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi rate route share" >> /etc/make.conf
then:
emerge alsa-libs

maybe then:
rm /etc/asound.conf
rm /home/yourhomedirectoryname/.asoundrc

but: You have a different errormessage then me - so maybe the solution for you is different

greetings aleX

Aries97 · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 63

I was able to fix this problem on my computer by setting:

zoe · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 324 Location: Greece

hi everyone and thanks for the reply Aries97.i managed to fix my problem by doing this(sorry but i didn't see your post until now and i was going to write the solution tha fixed it for me).First i completely removed alsa-lib,arts and kde libs and after that i did this,following a previous post