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#1
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Registered: May 2004
Posts: 47
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sound problem with mandriva 2010
I have installed mandriva 2010 on my macbook pro. Mandriva is the only os, there is no OS X.
#2
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Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Manchester, UK
Distribution: Mageia
Posts: 813
Rep:
What happens if you open up the pulse audio volume control? Will it open and are the volume controls up? Also, what abouit kmix?
#3
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Registered: May 2004
Posts: 47
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I get
Last edited by alam; 11-25-2009 at 04:30 PM .
#4
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Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Manchester, UK
Distribution: Mageia
Posts: 813
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Yeah, if you're running Gnome then you won't get kmix!
#5
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Registered: May 2004
Posts: 47
Original Poster
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No luck for sound. I don't see anything muted from 'alsamixer -c 0'. I tried disabling pulse audio - no sound. I removed /home/alamj/.pulse as root - did not help.
#6
Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Distribution: Devuan
Posts: 3,660
Hi, I can think of another GNU/Linux module that might be in the way./etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mdv
Last edited by GlennsPref; 11-27-2009 at 04:35 AM .
Reason: spelling
#7
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Registered: May 2004
Posts: 47
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Yes, there is pcspkr if I run lsmod. I did black list this in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-compact. Sound did not work. I rebooted the laptop too.
#8
Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Distribution: Devuan
Posts: 3,660
Hi, try again, but blacklist it in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mdv
I have a feeling it may not be the problem, but it won't hurt to try.
If you have no joy, you might try the alsa-info.sh script.
You can get it from the website...
www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
When you run it, type --help, to see the options available.
sh alsa-info.sh --help
I don't know how to debug the entire output, but if you paste it here we may find something.
Also, check the alsa wiki...
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Main_Page
see how you go.
Regards Glenn
Last edited by GlennsPref; 12-01-2009 at 11:54 AM .
Reason: spelling
#9
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Registered: May 2004
Posts: 47
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Hi, I have tried in your direction, but no luck yet. I guess this might be related to NVidia and I tried loading snd_intel8x0 from MCC, but this did not show up in the following output.
#10
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Distribution: Devuan
Posts: 3,660
Hi, one glaring omission from your alsa script is...
Code:
!!ALSA Version
!!------------
Driver version: 1.0.20
Library version:
Utilities version: 1.0.21
Mine looks like this.
Code:
!!ALSA Version
!!------------
Driver version: 1.0.20
Library version: 1.0.21a
Utilities version: 1.0.21
Try and install the package to match your version with urpmi...
Quote:
lib64alsa2-1.0.20-1mdv2010.0.x86_64.rpm
(Latest on My Machine, ver. 1.0.21a-1)
perhaps like this...
You may not need the dev packages...but you do need this one
lib64alsa2
Code:
urpmi lib64alsa2 lib64alsa-plugins libalsa-data
others available...
Code:
urpmi lib64alsa-plugins-pulseaudio lib64alsa-plugins-jack lib64alsa2-devel lib64alsa2-static-devel
Hope this gets it working, Regards Glenn
Last edited by GlennsPref; 12-03-2009 at 06:46 PM .
Reason: spelling, remove "urpmi alsa", my bad.
#11
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Registered: May 2004
Posts: 47
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Hi,
Many thanks for your help. My alsa script now includes library:
!!ALSA Version
!!------------
Driver version: 1.0.20
Library version: 1.0.21a
Utilities version: 1.0.21
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=22...4ff68ed749fc4c
I still have no sound.
One point:
urpmi alsa
failed - I retried several times. However, I can find any package from within MCC.
(I use mandriva for few years, but did never get sound working except with mandriva 2006)
#12
Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Distribution: Devuan
Posts: 3,660
Hi, yeah, Just alsa, my bad. I should have removed that, it was a list heading.
OK, if you have kde4,
go to the "configure your desktop" (screwdriver and spanner icon)
go to the "system notification", "player settings",
and change the option to "external player", type alsa in the box.
you may have to restart the window manager to test, logout of X and log back in.
The system startup sound is your first indication, as you may know.
You've tried turning off pulse in the hardware manager, and
I think the nvidia chip and kernel is fine, because the chip is recognised.
In my experience,
if the chip is not recognised by the kernel, no module is loaded, that's is all, no sound.
I had similar problems when I got this motherboard, it was too new, and I had to patch the kernel, and recompile to get it to work.
Then I had a similar problem with the Edirol (usb) sound box.
I was able to check my hardware with winxp, and of course, it just worked.
It took me 2 to 3 weeks each time, steep learning curve.
OK, lets check for missing packages using your rpm database.
first do...
it might take a while to finish, remember no news is good news.
then search the database for missing libs.
Code:
rpm -Va | grep miss
this will look for
miss ing libs etc.
This will take even longer, but sometimes can reveal "secrets"
After all of that, and trying to rectify any missing rpms....
you might find some gems in this script I used to figure out my sound system.
Please note, some of this is personalised to my system, but you can see the commands
you may run them individually and check the output.
Code:
#! /bin/zsh
# sh $HOME/bin/sound-info
# links to /home/glenn/build/sound-info
echo "Sound info and test script"
echo ""
echo "!!sound-info Script ran on: `LANG=C TZ=UTC date`"
echo ""
echo ""
echo "!!Linux Distribution"
echo "!!------------------"
echo ""
echo "Get info on system, uname -a"
uname -a
echo ""
echo ""
echo "sound-info"/n
echo ""
echo "a-play -l"/n
aplay -l
echo ""
echo "a-play -L"/n
aplay -L
echo ""
echo "a-connect -il"/n
aconnect -il
echo ""
echo "a-connect -ol"/n
aconnect -ol
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices"/n
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
echo ""
echo ""
echo "The classic bug sound tester is to run the following commands:"
echo "list pci drake the driver your card uses by default"/n
lspcidrake -v | grep -i AUDIO
echo ""
echo "grep sound-slot /etc/modprobe.conf will tell you what driver it currently uses"/n
grep sound-slot /etc/modprobe.conf
echo ""
echo "/sbin/chkconfig --list sound and /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa will tell you"
echo "sound and alsa services are configured to be run on initlevel 3 & 5"\n
sudo /sbin/chkconfig --list sound
sudo /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa
echo ""
echo "aumix -q will tell you sound volume is muted or not"/n
aumix -q
echo ""
echo "/sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp will tell what programs use the sound card"/n
/sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp
echo ""
echo "hardware lists"/n
echo "list modules check the module is loaded or not"/n
sudo /sbin/lsmod | grep snd
echo ""
echo "list usb Roland"/n
sudo /usr/sbin/lsusb | grep Roland
echo ""
echo "list pci Audio"/n
sudo /usr/bin/lspci | grep Audio
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/cards"/n
cat /proc/asound/cards
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/devices"/n
cat /proc/asound/devices
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/modules"/n
cat /proc/asound/modules
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat"/n
cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/version"/n
cat /proc/asound/version
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/pcm"/n
cat /proc/asound/pcm
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/seq/clients"/n
cat /proc/asound/seq/clients
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/seq/drivers"/n
cat /proc/asound/seq/drivers
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/seq/oss"/n
cat /proc/asound/seq/oss
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/timers"/n
cat /proc/asound/timers
echo ""
ls -la /proc/asound/UA25EX/
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/usbid"/n
cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/usbid
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/usbbus"/n
cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/usbbus
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/pcm0p/info"/n
cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/pcm0p/info
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/stream0"/n
cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/stream0
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/id"/n
cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/id
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/pcm0p/sub0/sw_params"/n
cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/pcm0p/sub0/sw_params
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/pcm0p/sub0/status"/n
cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/pcm0p/sub0/status
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params"/n
cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/oss_mixer"/n
cat /proc/asound/UA25EX/oss_mixer
echo ""
ls -la /proc/asound/ALC883/
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/ALC883/pcm0p/info"/n
cat /proc/asound/ALC883/pcm0p/info
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/ALC883/pcm0p/sub0/sw_params"/n
cat /proc/asound/ALC883/pcm0p/sub0/sw_params
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/ALC883/pcm0p/sub0/status"/n
cat /proc/asound/ALC883/pcm0p/sub0/status
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/ALC883/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params"/n
cat /proc/asound/ALC883/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/ALC883/oss_mixer"/n
cat /proc/asound/ALC883/oss_mixer
echo ""
#echo "cat /proc/asound/ALC883/usbid"/n
#cat /proc/asound/ALC883/usbid
echo ""
echo "cat /proc/asound/ALC883/id"/n
cat /proc/asound/ALC883/id
echo ""
#echo "cat /proc/asound/ALC883/usbbus"/n
#cat /proc/asound/ALC883/usbbus
echo ""
#echo "cat /proc/asound/ALC883/stream0"/n
#cat /proc/asound/ALC883/stream0
echo ""
echo "check ALC883 onboard sound chip .mp3 to headphones"/n
mpg123 -a plughw:1,0 /home/glenn/vBox-share/Soundz/atomic1.mp3
mpg123 -a plughw:ALC883 /home/glenn/vBox-share/Soundz/atomic.mp3
echo ""
echo "play wav with a-play to headphones ALC883 plughw:1,0"/n
aplay -D plughw:ALC883 /home/glenn/build/LedZeppelin_Physical-Graffiti/Led_Zeppelin/In_My_Time_of_Dying.wav
echo ""
echo "play mp3 & .wav tests....."/n
echo "play mp3 with mpg123 -a device-name .mp3"
echo "check edirol .mp3 to main speakers, faults with jackd running"/n
mpg123 -a plughw:UA25EX /home/glenn/vBox-share/Soundz/atomic.mp3
mpg123 -a plughw:0,0 /home/glenn/vBox-share/Soundz/atomic1.mp3
echo ""
echo "aplay tests....."
echo "play .wav with a-play plug:dmix"/n
aplay -D plug:dmix /home/glenn/build/LedZeppelin_Physical-Graffiti/Led_Zeppelin/In_My_Time_of_Dying.wav
echo ""
echo "play wav with a-play to edirol main speakers hw:1,0"/n
aplay -D hw:0,0 /home/glenn/build/LedZeppelin_Physical-Graffiti/Led_Zeppelin/In_My_Time_of_Dying.wav
aplay -D hw:UA25EX /home/glenn/build/LedZeppelin_Physical-Graffiti/Led_Zeppelin/In_My_Time_of_Dying.wav
echo
echo "end sound-info"
echo
echo "end testing script. GlennsPref 22/06/2009"/n
date && whoami
I generally ran this script with a redirector to a text file, for easy viewing and archiving.
you may need to adjust it to suit your system.
Code:
sh /home/glenn/build/sound-info > /home/glenn/build/sound-info-`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H`.txt
see how you go.
regards Glenn
Last edited by GlennsPref; 12-03-2009 at 06:53 PM .
Reason: more info and gramma and spelling corrections.
#13
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Registered: May 2004
Posts: 47
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Hi, I believe only the following line is relevant.
#14
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Posts: 47
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Sound info and test script
#15
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Distribution: Devuan
Posts: 3,660
Hi, it's looking like this is a software problem.
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