Christian.Mercat Posted November 4, 2003 Report Share Posted November 4, 2003 Hi there, Better is the enemy of good. I had a working 9.2rc with the ATI acceleration compiled in and for no reasons I decided to upgrade to 9.2. I installed the precompiled ATI acceleration packages. And I have no sound anymore (I don't know if it is related to ATI). The only sound I hear is at boot time, when restoring the Alsa mixer setup, an horrible crack. And the same crack sometimes when I drakxservices up and down the alsa or sound modules. xmms and play seem happy with themselves but I can't hear anything. kmix is not happy: $ kmix Loading required GL library /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 ERROR: KMix : impossible de trouver le mixeur. Veuillez vérifier que la carte son est installée et que le pilote de la carte est chargé Roughly: impossible to find the mixer. Please check that your sound card is installed and that its driver is loaded. And they are: # lspcidrake -v | grep AUDIO snd-intel8x0 : Intel Corporation|ICH4 845G/GL Chipset AC'97 Audio Controller [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:8086 device:24c5 subv:1028 subd:011d) # grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 # lsmod |grep snd snd-seq-oss 32000 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 6080 0 [snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 42544 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 43652 0 (unused) snd-mixer-oss 14200 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-intel8x0 22020 3 snd-pcm 79588 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0] snd-timer 18436 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 45720 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-mpu401-uart 4704 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-rawmidi 17760 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-page-alloc 9044 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm] snd 41380 3 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 6340 0 [snd] # chkconfig --list sound sound 0:Arrêt 1:Arrêt 2:Marche 3:Marche 4:Marche 5:Marche 6:Arrêt # chkconfig --list alsa alsa 0:Arrêt 1:Arrêt 2:Marche 3:Marche 4:Marche 5:Marche 6:Arrêt # aumix -q vol 100, 100, R pcm 84, 84 speaker 87, 87 line 65, 65, P mic 65, 65, P cd 100, 100, P igain 100, 100 line1 65, 65, P phin 65, 65, P video 65, 65, P # amixer Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Also I lost some items in the menus lists under the KDE menu, I used to have xmms and everything under the Sound menu and they are no longer there. It seems I should reinstall some packages but I don't know how to (I only know how to deinstall things and reinstall them but that's obviously not what I want to do, so many things rely on sound!). Should I download manually alsa and --force its installation? Thanks, Christian Mercat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted November 5, 2003 Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 Can you start alsamixer? Or alsamixergui? I'm just shooting in the dark, your symptoms are not known to me... Do as root urpmi alsamixergui (or what looks like that) to install Let us know how it's going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian.Mercat Posted November 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 > alsamixer Of course I can. But the changes I do don't lead me anywhere, nothing is muted etc... Actually I hear the horrible crack sound + the usual beep whenever the system beep is called... I don't know through which path this beep is issued and how I can use this info to get to the point... Thanks, Christian Mercat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted November 6, 2003 Report Share Posted November 6, 2003 Hmm, can you just cat a file (traditionally: /boot/vmlinuz, but you may want to take an audio file instead.. ;) ) to /dev/dsp or /dev/sound/dsp or so? While you're at it, can you ll /dev/dsp and /dev/sound/ to check for permissions..? You mention that xmms does fine, but if you start it from the command line, does it say anything..? (Note: I don't know 'play', is that a command? ) Sorry to launch another couple of shots in the dark here... hope someone else with more experience in your direction can give some better hints (from the way you write/describe, you may already have tried what I just mentioned..) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian.Mercat Posted November 12, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2003 Alright, it seems KDE is to blame because the KDE bell configuration works, % kcmshell bell gives me a clean signal. So it's no hardware. Any idea how to tame this arts thingy? Thanks, Christian Mercat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted November 12, 2003 Report Share Posted November 12, 2003 Ah... arts.. the bane of linux multimedia but needed in order to have multiple sound channels working in kde :) For xmms, download the arts plugin rpm ( I forgot from where, maybe from contrib, main tree, or plf) and use it instead of alsa or oss plugin. Now, another thing that I remember to change since I am using a toshiba laptop with the alsa sound driver. Go to KDE control system, then go to Sound -> Sound system. Go to the Sound I/O tab. Check Use Custom Sampling Rate and set it to 48000. If I don't enable that, then any sound longer than a few seconds will sound like a scratched up turntable :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRks Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 Now, another thing that I remember to change since I am using a toshiba laptop with the alsa sound driver. Go to KDE control system, then go to Sound -> Sound system. Go to the Sound I/O tab. Check Use Custom Sampling Rate and set it to 48000. If I don't enable that, then any sound longer than a few seconds will sound like a scratched up turntable :) I have a Gericom Laptop with VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller and I had the same problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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