Re: Help settings up sound card on Debian stable
On 4/14/22 02:07, Christian Britz wrote: On 2022-04-13 09:28 UTC+0200, Yvan Masson wrote: I have no idea of what you could do to make it work on stable, sorry. But did you try running testing? It would be probably simpler, and testing generally runs great. It seems to be more or less consent that you are not advised to run Debian Testing on a productive system, one of the reasons is security support. Is this system so new that it requires a kernel from testing? bullseye-backports has kernel 5.16.12, the kernel in testing is also a 5.16.x release. It will probably not take too much time until 5.17.x or 5.18.x will appear in bullseye-backports. Regards, Christian Exactly as Christian said. Will like to learn about sound card configuration in general as well, so any suggestion is appreciated. OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Help settings up sound card on Debian stable
On 4/13/22 00:28, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 12/04/2022 à 03:48, manp...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi, I have been trying to set up a Minisforum HX90[1] with Debian stable with backports. Most of the stuff works out of the box except sound, bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. Hi, I have no idea of what you could do to make it work on stable, sorry. But did you try running testing? It would be probably simpler, and testing generally runs great. Regards, Yvan Thanks, and no worries. The reason I haven't tried testing is that this is a semi-production system and I'd like the base system to be stable. Also I've seen some success story regarding this type of sound card on other Linux distributions with a sufficiently recent kernel (5.15-ish), so I'd like to at least try to make it work which will be a learning process. In the worst case I may just wait for bookworm to become stable next year :) OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Help settings up sound card on Debian stable
On 2022-04-13 09:28 UTC+0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > I have no idea of what you could do to make it work on stable, sorry. > But did you try running testing? It would be probably simpler, and > testing generally runs great. It seems to be more or less consent that you are not advised to run Debian Testing on a productive system, one of the reasons is security support. Is this system so new that it requires a kernel from testing? bullseye-backports has kernel 5.16.12, the kernel in testing is also a 5.16.x release. It will probably not take too much time until 5.17.x or 5.18.x will appear in bullseye-backports. Regards, Christian -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de
Re: Help settings up sound card on Debian stable
Le 12/04/2022 à 03:48, manp...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi, I have been trying to set up a Minisforum HX90[1] with Debian stable with backports. Most of the stuff works out of the box except sound, bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. Hi, I have no idea of what you could do to make it work on stable, sorry. But did you try running testing? It would be probably simpler, and testing generally runs great. Regards, Yvan OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Help settings up sound card on Debian stable
Hi, I have been trying to set up a Minisforum HX90[1] with Debian stable with backports. Most of the stuff works out of the box except sound, bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. I'll focus on the sound card issue here and use a new thread for the latter 2 items (which are related to the same MediaTek module.) I've enabled backports repo and installed the latest backport kernel. It looks like the system can detect the device according to inxi output: ``` $ inxi -SMA System: Host: debian-hx90 Kernel: 5.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: N/A Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: N/A model: HX90 serial: UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 5.19 date: 10/11/2021 Audio: Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor driver: N/A Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Device-4: C-Media Audio Adapter (Unitek Y-247A) type: USB driver: cmedia_hs100b,snd-usb-audio,usbhid Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 running: yes Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.19 running: yes ``` but note this line: "Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor driver: N/A" which seems to suggest that the driver is not available. I tried to list devices using "aplay -l" but got no sound card available: ``` $ aplay -l aplay: device_list:274: no soundcards found... ``` PulseAudio also reports only the dummy sink is available: ``` $ pactl list sinks Sink #0 State: SUSPENDED Name: auto_null Description: Dummy Output Driver: module-null-sink.c Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz Channel Map: front-left,front-right Owner Module: 12 Mute: no Volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB, front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB balance 0.00 Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB Monitor Source: auto_null.monitor Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec Flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY SET_FORMATS Properties: device.description = "Dummy Output" device.class = "abstract" device.icon_name = "audio-card" Formats: pcm ``` I've googled around and tried to install some firmware including "firmware-sof-signed" but it didn't help. The "lspci output" looks like: ``` $ sudo lspci -v [..snip..] 04:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor (rev 01) Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 69, IOMMU group 5 Memory at fca8 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [64] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 Kernel modules: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x 04:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller DeviceName: HD Audio Controller Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 74, IOMMU group 5 Memory at fcac (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [64] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel [..snip..] ``` The "lsmod" output seems to show that everything is loaded, but it seems the acp3x related modules are not in use: ``` $ sudo lsmod | grep snd snd_usb_audio 356352 2 snd_usbmidi_lib45056 1 snd_usb_audio snd_hda_codec_hdmi 73728 1 snd_rawmidi45056 1 snd_usbmidi_lib snd_seq_device 16384 1 snd_rawmidi mc 65536 1 snd_usb_audio snd_hda_intel 57344 1 snd_intel_dspcfg 28672 1 snd_hda_intel snd_intel_sdw_acpi 20480 1 snd_intel_dspcfg snd_hda_codec 176128 2 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel snd_hda_core 110592 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep 16384 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 147456 5 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec,sn
Re: Trouble with 2011 iMac Sound Card On Debian
Will try, thx. --Keifer On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 12:26 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 08 iun 20, 16:11:02, Keifer Bly wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > So I installed Debian on a 2011 iMac and it is working ok, except for the > > sound. There is no sound from either the speaker or the headphone jack. > > > > When I go to the system settings, the volum option is completely greyed > out. > > > > Running cat /proc/asound/cards in UXTerm returned this: > > > > 0 [PCH ]:HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH > >HDA Intel PCH at 0xa890 irq 47 > > 1 [HDMI]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI > > HDA ATI HDMI at 0xa884 irq 48 > > > > I am wondering why the speaker and headphone jack would not work when the > > sound card is recognized? Thanks very much. > > You could try poking around in alsamixer (package alsa-utils) to unmute > (M) channels or change volume levels. > > Hope this helps, > Andrei > -- > http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser >
Re: Trouble with 2011 iMac Sound Card On Debian
On Lu, 08 iun 20, 16:11:02, Keifer Bly wrote: > Hi all, > > So I installed Debian on a 2011 iMac and it is working ok, except for the > sound. There is no sound from either the speaker or the headphone jack. > > When I go to the system settings, the volum option is completely greyed out. > > Running cat /proc/asound/cards in UXTerm returned this: > > 0 [PCH ]:HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH >HDA Intel PCH at 0xa890 irq 47 > 1 [HDMI]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI > HDA ATI HDMI at 0xa884 irq 48 > > I am wondering why the speaker and headphone jack would not work when the > sound card is recognized? Thanks very much. You could try poking around in alsamixer (package alsa-utils) to unmute (M) channels or change volume levels. Hope this helps, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Trouble with 2011 iMac Sound Card On Debian
Hi all, So I installed Debian on a 2011 iMac and it is working ok, except for the sound. There is no sound from either the speaker or the headphone jack. When I go to the system settings, the volum option is completely greyed out. Running cat /proc/asound/cards in UXTerm returned this: 0 [PCH ]:HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH HDA Intel PCH at 0xa890 irq 47 1 [HDMI]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI HDA ATI HDMI at 0xa884 irq 48 I am wondering why the speaker and headphone jack would not work when the sound card is recognized? Thanks very much. [image: debian sund card info.PNG] --Keifer <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
Re: how to config cmi8738 sound card
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 12:18:49AM +, Long Wind wrote: [...] > you can see, i'm amateur We all are. But we learn from each other :-) Cheers -- tomás signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: how to config cmi8738 sound card
On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 23:26:43 + (UTC) Long Wind wrote: > i've solved on my own.thanks anyway! Excellent. Now it would be polite to say how you solved it so that someone reading this thread in the future can benefit form your work. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
how to config cmi8738 sound card
which module shall i use for cmi8738 in buster?i think with modprobe the module, sound card will be OK
Re: how to select sound card in mixer
On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 11:05:37 + (UTC) Long Wind wrote: > thanks! > pulseaudio caused trouble for some recording program in the past, i > have removed it. > > cli for aumix doesn't seem to be able to do such job.i think amixer > in alsa-utils can do > Alsamixer in a terminal does it for me. -- Joe
Re: how to select sound card in mixer
On 2019-01-19, Long Wind wrote: > > Thanks! > isn't there some gui program that let user choose card?such program surely = > can make life easy for useri think mixer in Windows XP can do > command line interface of aumix can also doi need to read its manual carefu= > llyi just can't believe such gui program doesn't exist=20 > There's the 'pavucontrol' mixer that makes life easier for people like us (gtk app). -- When you have fever you are heavy and light, you are small and swollen, you climb endlessly a ladder which turns like a wheel. Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
Re: how to select sound card in mixer
Thanks! isn't there some gui program that let user choose card?such program surely can make life easy for useri think mixer in Windows XP can do command line interface of aumix can also doi need to read its manual carefullyi just can't believe such gui program doesn't exist On Saturday, January 19, 2019 5:27 PM, deloptes wrote: Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > crw-rw+ 1 root audio 14, 4 Jan 16 12:21 /dev/audio > crw-rw+ 1 root audio 14, 3 Jan 16 12:21 /dev/dsp > crw-rw+ 1 root audio 14, 0 Jan 16 12:21 /dev/mixer this is dsp - I think it is compatibility layer to older OSS. What you also want to look at is: $ ls -al /dev/snd/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 340 Jan 6 16:10 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 14400 Jan 18 21:06 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Jan 6 16:10 by-id drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jan 6 16:10 by-path crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Jan 6 16:10 controlC0 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 12 Jan 6 16:10 controlC1 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Jan 6 16:10 hwC0D2 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Jan 6 16:10 hwC0D3 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Jan 14 23:19 pcmC0D0c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Jan 19 08:05 pcmC0D0p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Jan 6 16:10 pcmC0D2c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Jan 6 16:45 pcmC0D3p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Jan 6 16:45 pcmC0D7p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Jan 6 16:45 pcmC0D8p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 11 Jan 14 23:19 pcmC1D0c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 1 Jan 11 18:08 seq crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Jan 6 16:10 timer output might differ on your end but usually all is hidden behind pulseaudio. you can set the precedence of the audio card by configuring the index parameter for it for example in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf or custom conf file there options snd_hda_intel index=0 options snd-usb-audio index=1 this tells the computer to use the hda_intel card as first one and the usb audio card as second. Read also the documentation. regards
Re: how to select sound card in mixer
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > crw-rw+ 1 root audio 14, 4 Jan 16 12:21 /dev/audio > crw-rw+ 1 root audio 14, 3 Jan 16 12:21 /dev/dsp > crw-rw+ 1 root audio 14, 0 Jan 16 12:21 /dev/mixer this is dsp - I think it is compatibility layer to older OSS. What you also want to look at is: $ ls -al /dev/snd/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 340 Jan 6 16:10 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root14400 Jan 18 21:06 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Jan 6 16:10 by-id drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jan 6 16:10 by-path crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Jan 6 16:10 controlC0 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 12 Jan 6 16:10 controlC1 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Jan 6 16:10 hwC0D2 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Jan 6 16:10 hwC0D3 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Jan 14 23:19 pcmC0D0c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Jan 19 08:05 pcmC0D0p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Jan 6 16:10 pcmC0D2c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Jan 6 16:45 pcmC0D3p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Jan 6 16:45 pcmC0D7p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Jan 6 16:45 pcmC0D8p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 11 Jan 14 23:19 pcmC1D0c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 1 Jan 11 18:08 seq crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Jan 6 16:10 timer output might differ on your end but usually all is hidden behind pulseaudio. you can set the precedence of the audio card by configuring the index parameter for it for example in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf or custom conf file there options snd_hda_intel index=0 options snd-usb-audio index=1 this tells the computer to use the hda_intel card as first one and the usb audio card as second. Read also the documentation. regards
Re: how to select sound card in mixer
On 1/19/19, Long Wind wrote: > i have two sound cards, aumix for X shows setting for one cardit doesn't > allow user to select cardit use /dev/mixer, i don't know device name for > each card > any program in X window that let user choose card??i hope it doesn't depend > on kde or gnome, i use twmThanks! What I played with on mine might not help, but am sharing in case it does, at least in part. You said "device", so I sampled: # ls -ld /dev/* | grep au -i Throwing in grep was a little trick I learned from seeing it tossed around here on Debian-User. That landed this for my little ASUS 1015px laptop: crw-rw+ 1 root audio14, 4 Jan 16 12:21 /dev/audio crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 235 Jan 16 12:21 /dev/autofs crw-rw+ 1 root audio14, 3 Jan 16 12:21 /dev/dsp crw-rw+ 1 root audio14, 0 Jan 16 12:21 /dev/mixer crw--- 1 root root 10, 1 Jan 16 12:21 /dev/psaux I was... lazy... and only typed "au" so there were a couple things non-audio. Since those extras created only a little noise, they were left in just to show that usage. :) I also tried running "apt-get search sound card". That right neighborly (effortlessly) landed: xmix - X11-based interface to the Linux sound driver mixer It's 10.8kb (for me) so I test drove it before sharing. It's... "cute". Unfortunately, I don't have any way to know if it recognizes two cards instead of just the one that I (presume I) have. The Master setting was down presumably at 0. I had some trouble bumping that up... and now can't get it to slide back down. Additionally my own speaker(s?) has not worked in a while so I don't know if it had any effect when it did move upward. :D Normal user was "allowed" to run xmix, root was not. That was expected behavior similar to how root is supposed to be all business, get in, do some work, and get out and thus not "playing" with known time wasters, e.g. web browsers. As an aside for potential Developer interest, closing xmix via that universal top righthand (and sometimes lefthand) "X" repeatedly received the following feedback that did NOT come back when closing via the "Quit" button: $ xmix XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" after 325 requests (325 known processed) with 0 events remaining. As a further and totally OT aside, the "sound card" search also landed these two packages that look interesting: cw - Morse code tutor - command line user interface xdemorse - decode Morse signals to text Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
Re: (solved) Re: sound card problem
David Christensen wrote: > I would expect personal computer sound card line-in and microphone > inputs to use the same design analog-to-digital converter. So, the > sampling rates and bit depths should be the same. > > > But, microphone inputs are usually monaural. So, if you use a stereo > patch cable from your television to your computer, you will only hear > the left channel. > > > And, microphone inputs usually have more analog gain. So, you will need > to turn the television volume down and/or reduce the microphone gain in > your mixer application. Either can reduce the signal quality. Failure > to do so will result in clipping. > > > You will get the best recording if you connect the television line-out > to the computer line-in and match the signal levels. He does not know what brand his PC is and no info on the card - it is hard to say where and how it should be plugged in. regards
Re: (solved) Re: sound card problem
On 09/05/2018 05:35 PM, Long Wind wrote: PS: is recording quality of mic same as linein? I would expect personal computer sound card line-in and microphone inputs to use the same design analog-to-digital converter. So, the sampling rates and bit depths should be the same. But, microphone inputs are usually monaural. So, if you use a stereo patch cable from your television to your computer, you will only hear the left channel. And, microphone inputs usually have more analog gain. So, you will need to turn the television volume down and/or reduce the microphone gain in your mixer application. Either can reduce the signal quality. Failure to do so will result in clipping. You will get the best recording if you connect the television line-out to the computer line-in and match the signal levels. David
Re: sound card problem
On Wed 05 Sep 2018 at 00:15:23 (+), Long Wind wrote: > sorry, this question isn't linux specific It's unspecific in several other ways. > TV audio output What sort of output? Intended for speakers, or headphones, or a line-style output. > is connected to linein of my sound card What sound card is that? Enumerate the inputs and outputs, how they are labelled, and which ones you are using. > speaker is connected to output of sound card What, directly? Full-size passive speakers, or active ones with some sort of amplification built into them. > tv sound can be heard even when pc is shut down How loud? Just as loud as when the PC is running with the mixers turned up, turned down, muted? Or just loud enough to be a distraction if you're, say, dozing/sleeping in the same room? > i have to turn off speaker, this isn't convenient You say "turn off" rather than "disconnect". Is that because the speakers are being run from an amplifier that's independent of the sound card? > i mute all in mixer before shutting down stretch, it doesn't help > is there any solution? Thanks! Dunno. But it helps to have the problem explained. We can't do house calls! Cheers, David.
Re: sound card problem
On 9/5/18, deloptes wrote: > Long Wind wrote: > >> Thank deloptes! >> >> i'm unable to find manual for motherboardand i browse thru BIOS menu, >> unable to find related option > > you hear sound even when you turn off and unplug your computer? That's what I'm imagining from the description, too. Sounds like all power's off to the computer... so I'm imagining that... The card doesn't need "power" to work? Apparently no. This is the first time I've ever thought about that aspect. That's a constant checkpoint for things like those CHEAP $5 external hard drive adapters that have no enclosures, but it's never been a factor for PCI'ish/plugs into the motherboard type hardware. Is there some kind of direct wiring going on between the linein and lineout points? Yeah, I know, never mind on that one. There has to be something like that for it to work even when the power switch is on. Something goes in and can only go back out if there is an unbroken line of connectivity somehow within the product. :) Those thoughts are coming from sitting here reading Long Wind's description while knowing that my speakers power on and off separate from the computer. Wish I had some way to (kicks 'n' giggles) test the same to see if mine duplicates the result. Afterthought: This is a stretch of the imagination, YES, but Is there any way it could be seen as an exploitable vulnerability where it's possible to interact within the computer even when it's turned off completely? Absolute worse, hopefully totally impossible scenario would be that the boogeyman burglar busts into your office one night, plants some bad mojo on that PCI card, you boot up your computer the next morning, and off that bad mojo goes running throughout the rest of the internal workings... Yes, I do understand that the card would have to be capable of certain [tasks]. If that card's not capable, maybe others are? > input/output might be shortened on the board - why would you look at BIOS? Hail Mary pass...? Apparently because it's that annoying a (dis)feature? :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *
Re: sound card problem
Long Wind wrote: > Thank deloptes! > > i'm unable to find manual for motherboardand i browse thru BIOS menu, > unable to find related option you hear sound even when you turn off and unplug your computer? input/output might be shortened on the board - why would you look at BIOS? regards
Re: sound card problem
Long Wind wrote: > i mute all in mixer before shutting down stretch, it doesn't help > is there any solution? Thanks! why do you think it is a software issue? After machine is switched off the software is dead. Look at the description of the mainboard
Re: Any Sound Card Recommendations?
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 09:42:01AM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > I bought an Asus Xonar DSX expecting it to work with my Debian Stretch > system, there was a recommendation on the Internet from someone using Mint > who said it worked right out of the box. Mine didn't. > > I would like a really good sound card for my system and don't want to make > the same mistake twice. > > Any recommendations? What does "really good" mean to you? Please tell us more about your requirements, such as: * usage scenario (music listening, recording, games, home theatre, ...) * PC-side interface (PCIe, USB) * number of audio channels in/out needed and their signal type (microphone, phono, line, headphones, digital interfaces) * sample frequency / bit depth * signal processing on the soundcard (MIDI to PCM, Dolby whatever, ...) if needed at all
Re: Any Sound Card Recommendations?
On 11/21/2017 09:42 AM, Thomas George wrote: I would like a really good sound card for my system and don't want to make the same mistake twice. Any recommendations? USB headphones seem to always work. I have a USB 7.1 sound device that works a charm as well. ALSA/Pulse seems to love them both, Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. http://linuxcounter.net/user/44256.html
Any Sound Card Recommendations?
I bought an Asus Xonar DSX expecting it to work with my Debian Stretch system, there was a recommendation on the Internet from someone using Mint who said it worked right out of the box. Mine didn't. I would like a really good sound card for my system and don't want to make the same mistake twice. Any recommendations?
Sound card with support either out-of-box (kernel support) or ALSA/Pulseaudio
Hi list members, I'm currently running Debian on a custom built desktop, and am looking to get, as a little something to complete the rig to desired specs, a sound card. Yes, I know the spiel... "Who needs a sound card in 2016?", or, "But onboard audio...!" My reason is for audio processing: I need a separate device with a little more dedicated "oomph". But I digress. I've been carefully researching cards, trying to find a solution that, in essence, translates to one of the following: 1) Drop the card in and either there's kernel support 2) A kernel module is available 3) ALSA and/or Pulseaudio will see it and pick up on it My rig is running sid with the 4.7.0-1-amd64 kernel. I do have non-free repos enabled; I did so to get proper Nvidia drivers for my graphics card. So I am flexible enough to accept non-free if, and only if, there's no other really good solution. The cards I narrowed down to include the Creative Labs Z series (which, AFAIK, are emu10k cores that are listed on the ALSA wiki as supported), or the Asus Xonar Essence cards (which I have read as having kernel support). However, I may take the Z series cards, as they're more within my budget. So my question now is this: has anyone tried out a Creative Z series sound card in their rig, and if so, what is it like setting it up to work properly with Debian? Many thanks, --Robert -- Nobody's ever lost in life...they're merely taking the scenic route. == Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html == -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1.2 GCS/S/M/MU d- s+: a37 C++(+++) UL>$ P++ L+++ E+ W+ N+ o+ K++ w--- O- M !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP(+) t+ 5++ X++ R tv b+++ DI+++ D++(---) G++ e+ h- r++ y+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: Disable a sound card
On 24/06/16 03:24, Alex PADOLY wrote: > The speaker output of my DELL laptop D430 doesn't work, I have sound > only by the speaker of my laptop. It is impossible to desactive Intel > sound card by the bios. > > I bought a usb sound card Terratec. I always have a sound on the speaker > of my laptob but no sound > > on output of usb sound card. I think there is a conflit between Intel > sound card and usb sound card. You should be able to blacklist the snd-hda-intel driver in /etc/hotplug/blacklist. That ought to prevent the Intel HDA driver from loading and thus leave you with just the USB audio device. Secondly, most modern desktops are using PulseAudio these days, there's a tool, `pasystray` which lets you select the sound device. Finally, there's asoundrc to configure the default device, have a look at the output of `cat /proc/asound/cards` to make a note of what ID the device has, then add a line to your .asoundrc: > pcm.!default { > type hw > card YOUR_ID_HERE > } > > ctl.!default { > type hw > card YOUR_ID_HERE > } See http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc for more information. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Disable a sound card
Hi, The speaker output of my DELL laptop D430 doesn't work, I have sound only by the speaker of my laptop. It is impossible to desactive Intel sound card by the bios. I bought a usb sound card Terratec. I always have a sound on the speaker of my laptob but no sound on output of usb sound card. I think there is a conflit between Intel sound card and usb sound card. This is a file alsa-base.conf : # autoloader aliases install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-0 install sound-slot-1 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-1 install sound-slot-2 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-2 install sound-slot-3 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-3 install sound-slot-4 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-4 install sound-slot-5 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-5 install sound-slot-6 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-6 install sound-slot-7 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-7 # Cause optional modules to be loaded above generic modules install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-ioctl32 ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq ; : ; } install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq-midi ; : ; } install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-emu10k1-synth ; : ; } # Keep snd-pcsp from beeing loaded as first soundcard #options snd-pcsp index=-2 Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard options snd-usb-audio index=-2 # Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0 options bt87x index=-2 options cx88_alsa index=-2 options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2 options snd-intel8x0m index=-2 options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2 This a file alsa-base-blacklist.conf # Uncomment these entries in order to blacklist unwanted modem drivers # blacklist snd-atiixp-modem # blacklist snd-intel8x0m # blacklist snd-via82xx-modem # Comment this entry in order to load snd-pcsp driver blacklist snd-pcsp Thank you for your help. Alex PADOLY
Sound-Card Chain of Command?
Hi everyone, My friend Larry hart has a rather unique debian question. Is there a script to do what he wants? I have already suggested that he will need to give the infinite channels of wisdom here more information. I am only sharing his posts, and your answers, because I am already on the list. Thanks in advance, -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 08:08:45 -0800 Subject: Sound-Card Chain of Command? Hi All: Especially since I am totally blind, I am only in a console setup, mostly Debian Testing. I have 4 sound-cards, one of which is a high-end, supporting equalization. These seem to let me play multiple streams at once. Problem is if we run speech-dispatcher to run a graphical screen-reader, I cannot rip audio in ice weasel xvfb, but I can still play. What I would essentially like to do is have either speech-dispatcher or the recording function find a next available empty sound-card. This would certainly provide lots more flexabillity. Thanks so much in advance Hart
Re: Sound card question
On 04/10/15 10:22, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >> This also lets you adjust volume levels so that you don't overdrive the >> > input on the transceiver. Nothing worse than a contact with a garbled >> > station because the microphone input is being overdriven. > All that is needed for monitoring is a VHF/UHF scanner. True, a handheld transceiver can often be bought for the same price or less and in this situation, performs more functionality as it allows adjustments of transmit audio the other way too. This is why I suggested it. > CW is to amateur radio much as is CLI to computing. > And a microphone is the analogue of a GUI. Not quite. ;-) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Sound card question
On Sat > Another option, get a small handheld transceiver that you can tune to > the appropriate frequency. > > This also lets you adjust volume levels so that you don't overdrive the > input on the transceiver. Nothing worse than a contact with a garbled > station because the microphone input is being overdriven. All that is needed for monitoring is a VHF/UHF scanner. CW is to amateur radio much as is CLI to computing. And a microphone is the analogue of a GUI. Russ
Re: Sound card question
On 03/10/15 01:27, Danny wrote: > In order to hear comms coming in or out of the transciever (via an antenna) > one > has to connect to the transciever with ANOTHER transciever in order to hear > people talk (if you are tuned to the same frequency off course) > > Now ... my second transciever is fitted inside my car ... in order for me to > hear all comms on the frequency I need to go to my car and turn that > transciever > on every now and then which becomes a pain in the donkey ... ;) ... Another option, get a small handheld transceiver that you can tune to the appropriate frequency. This also lets you adjust volume levels so that you don't overdrive the input on the transceiver. Nothing worse than a contact with a garbled station because the microphone input is being overdriven. (We have this from time to time on VK4RBN.) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Sound card question
On 10/02/2015 10:18 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Fri, October 2, 2015 5:34 pm, Doug wrote: In this context, mis-use of terms "impedance" and "power" is adding nothing but confusion. I have no quarrel with the advice that follows, but I do not understand the comment above. Doug, As I recall, the thread began with the need to monitor the audio signal being fed into a transceiver from the headphone-level audio output of a computer. Specifically, the question was whether a Y-adapter would suffice. In this application, the Y-adapter connects in parallel the input of the transceiver and the input of the powered speaker system. We immediately get into trouble if we say "load" instead of "input", because the term "load" implies a transfer of power, and in this application there is no transfer of power from the computer output to either the transceiver or the speaker system. The most simple, natural, and common solution is to use an inexpensive (about twenty-dollars) set of powered speakers. The term "powered speaker" commonly is used for an integrated unit which consists of speakers (left and right), amplifier(two-channel), and power supply. The input (whether jack or cable with a 3.5mm stereo phone plug) of a powered speaker has an impedance in the range of 10,000 Ohms to 100,000 Ohms; this is for each channel. Such a high impedance is all but invisible to the output of the computer, because the output of the computer is designed to pump 10 to 20 milliWatts into a pair of 8 Ohm earbuds. So we take a functional system (the computer output feeding a signal into a transceiver) and connect in parallel the powered speaker, which adds to the computer output an almost-invisible load. And, like the powered speaker system, the transceiver input has a high impedance. So, essentially, the computer HEADPHONE output (which has a very low impedance) is running unloaded. The power consumed by the speaker mechanism (which consists of voice coil, magnet, and paper cone) is of no concern to us, for that power is furnished entirely by the power supply which plugs into the 120V receptacle. Inasmuch as powered computer speaker systems are a commodity item (twenty dollars), there really is no incentive to purchase components and build anything. RLH Ok, I think we are not fighting over anything. I did not assume speakers as the destination when I suggested a Y adapter. _Then_ the OP said he wanted speakers. I did not assume, as you apparently did, that he was thinking of powered computer speakers. With the exception of some Logitech powered speaker systems, practically all others are junk, with no attempt at fidelity. So I would not immediately think of "computer speakers." And yes, the input impedance of any of such systems is at least a couple of K-ohms, and will not load the Y adapter. Another responder, as you no doubt know, suggested an old boom-box with an external audio input jack. That might be the simplest answer of all, if there's one kicking around somewhere. Cheers--doug
Re: Sound card question
On Fri, October 2, 2015 5:34 pm, Doug wrote: >> In this context, mis-use of terms "impedance" and "power" is adding >> nothing but confusion. > > I have no quarrel with the advice that follows, but I do not understand > the comment above. Doug, As I recall, the thread began with the need to monitor the audio signal being fed into a transceiver from the headphone-level audio output of a computer. Specifically, the question was whether a Y-adapter would suffice. In this application, the Y-adapter connects in parallel the input of the transceiver and the input of the powered speaker system. We immediately get into trouble if we say "load" instead of "input", because the term "load" implies a transfer of power, and in this application there is no transfer of power from the computer output to either the transceiver or the speaker system. The most simple, natural, and common solution is to use an inexpensive (about twenty-dollars) set of powered speakers. The term "powered speaker" commonly is used for an integrated unit which consists of speakers (left and right), amplifier(two-channel), and power supply. The input (whether jack or cable with a 3.5mm stereo phone plug) of a powered speaker has an impedance in the range of 10,000 Ohms to 100,000 Ohms; this is for each channel. Such a high impedance is all but invisible to the output of the computer, because the output of the computer is designed to pump 10 to 20 milliWatts into a pair of 8 Ohm earbuds. So we take a functional system (the computer output feeding a signal into a transceiver) and connect in parallel the powered speaker, which adds to the computer output an almost-invisible load. And, like the powered speaker system, the transceiver input has a high impedance. So, essentially, the computer HEADPHONE output (which has a very low impedance) is running unloaded. The power consumed by the speaker mechanism (which consists of voice coil, magnet, and paper cone) is of no concern to us, for that power is furnished entirely by the power supply which plugs into the 120V receptacle. Inasmuch as powered computer speaker systems are a commodity item (twenty dollars), there really is no incentive to purchase components and build anything. RLH
Re: Sound card question
On 10/02/2015 02:36 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Fri, October 2, 2015 12:10 pm, Doug wrote: You didn't mention that you want to add _speakers_. You might need a small amplifier after the Y-adapter, since the speakers will be low impedance--4- or 8 ohms. Visit ramseykits.com and find some small audio amplifiers in kit or assembled form. They are probably overkill for your purpose, but cheap enough. A 14W stereo kit, CK154, will run on 12 to 16 VDC at 1A. $26 for a kit, or $34 assembled. You provide an enclosure and a wall-wart to drive it. (The "14W" rating is for 7W per channel, and I would expect that it's a peak rating, since 16V at 1A is 16 Watts _input_ power! I would guess that rms power is more like 2 or 3 Watts per channel.) In this context, mis-use of terms "impedance" and "power" is adding nothing but confusion. I have no quarrel with the advice that follows, but I do not understand the comment above. Speakers are rated for the _imppedance_ they present to the amplifier which drives them. Impedance is defined as R+jX, where R is resistance and X is reactance, which can be either negative (capacitive) or positive (inductive), and appears on the imaginary (y) axis of a rectangular graph, thus the j term. Power is always expressed in Watts, and is defined as current times voltage, or in engineering terms, P = IE. I is current in Amps, E is voltage in Volts. The voltage is either DC, or the RMS value of an AC waveform. [j = sqrt (-1)] The "120 volts" coming out of a wall outlet is an RMS value of voltage. (RMS value of a sinusoidal waveform equals 0.7071 times the peak value.) So, power can mean AC audio power sent to a loudspeaker, (or AC power from a wall outlet sent to whatever device it powers),or DC power sent to some load, such as a flash-light bulb, the supply for an amplifier, or whatever. Nowadays, that DC power is frequently obtained from a module that plugs into a wall outlet, commonly called a wall-wart. DC power can also be obtained from batteries or from the lighter socket of your automobile. --doug A pair of powered desktop speakers designed to plug into the output port of a computer is a commodity item which can be purchased for about twenty dollars at any computer store. Everything is packaged nicely and there is a volume control, a tone control, and a power supply which plugs into a 120V wall receptacle; the power output is several Watts. The load which these amplified speakers present to the audio source (computer, transceiver, or whatever) is in the range of ten thousand Ohms to a hundred thousand Ohms; in other words, the speakers present no significant load on any audio line to which they are connected. RLH
Re: Sound card question
On Fri, October 2, 2015 12:10 pm, Doug wrote: > You didn't mention that you want to add _speakers_. You might need a > small amplifier after the Y-adapter, since the speakers will be low > impedance--4- or 8 ohms. Visit ramseykits.com and find some small audio > amplifiers in kit or assembled form. They are probably overkill for your > purpose, but cheap enough. A 14W stereo kit, CK154, will run on 12 to 16 > VDC at 1A. $26 for a kit, or $34 assembled. You > provide an enclosure and a wall-wart to drive it. (The "14W" rating is for > 7W per > channel, and I would expect that it's a peak rating, since 16V at 1A is 16 > Watts > _input_ power! I would guess that rms power is more like 2 or 3 Watts per > channel.) In this context, mis-use of terms "impedance" and "power" is adding nothing but confusion. A pair of powered desktop speakers designed to plug into the output port of a computer is a commodity item which can be purchased for about twenty dollars at any computer store. Everything is packaged nicely and there is a volume control, a tone control, and a power supply which plugs into a 120V wall receptacle; the power output is several Watts. The load which these amplified speakers present to the audio source (computer, transceiver, or whatever) is in the range of ten thousand Ohms to a hundred thousand Ohms; in other words, the speakers present no significant load on any audio line to which they are connected. RLH
Re: Sound card question
Quoting Danny (mynixm...@gmail.com): > In order for me NOT to make a trip to the car every 10 minutes I though of > splitting the LINE-OUT and add a normal set of desktop speakers. > > So ... I was just wondering if I will have any losses (in whatever form) when > I > "split" the signal ... keep in mind that the audio signals processed by the > sound > card should be strong and reliable ... I assume "desktop speakers" are designed to present a load comparable with headphones, or at least compatible with typical sound card capabilities. They will soak up a little of the current available at the output, while your rig will only be interested in the output voltage which will be unaffected. (Am I saying all this to a licensed ham?) My desktop soundcard had to drive a pair of Jordan Watts like these: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BAbT1p2CUAA0Di0.jpg but I wouldn't recommend that for you. However, my concern is for how you deal with the volume control. I assume your rig wants the output turned up loud so that's what you'll get through your Y-splitter (Y-sharer might be a better term). What I do (currently on my server in the basement) is connect the output to the line/aux input of an old ghettoblaster (cassette mechanisms long worn out) which gives me not only volume but tone controls too. If you haven't got any of your own, their are junk shops, charity shops, neighbours... This solution is safer with headphones too, when the software unexpectedly maxes the volume. Cheers, David.
RE: Sound card question
-Original Message- From: Danny [mailto:mynixm...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 8:27 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sound card question > I believe that the output of the headphone jack is not impedance > matched--I expect it's just a voltage source. Wat's more, unless you > are plugging the same low-impedance devices into both Y outputs, _and_ > the source is impedance matched, you would not split the power > equally. I don't know what you want to do with the second output, but it's more than likely a relatively high impedance, so it would not load the circuit at all. > I could be wrong, but it seems logical to me. > > --doug O.k ... let me explain why I asked the question for the sake of satisfying any curiosity: I have EchoLink (Ham Radio VOIP) connected to Jessie like this: VHF Transceiver (with two interface cables going to the MIC and LINE-OUT jacks on the back of an internal sound card. Incoming audio (radio frequency) goes through the antenna ... through the transciever ... to the sound card (via the MIC interface cable) ... it gets processed by the sound card and stuff happens on VOIP ... Because the VHF transceiver is effectively turned into a repeater NO transmit or recieve audio can be heard on the transciever itself (as it should be). In order to hear comms coming in or out of the transciever (via an antenna) one has to connect to the transciever with ANOTHER transciever in order to hear people talk (if you are tuned to the same frequency off course) Now ... my second transciever is fitted inside my car ... in order for me to hear all comms on the frequency I need to go to my car and turn that transciever on every now and then which becomes a pain in the donkey ... ;) ... In order for me NOT to make a trip to the car every 10 minutes I though of splitting the LINE-OUT and add a normal set of desktop speakers. So ... I was just wondering if I will have any losses (in whatever form) when I "split" the signal ... keep in mind that the audio signals processed by the sound card should be strong and reliable ... Thank You Danny Normally when a signal is "split" you should have "identical" impedences on both sides of the split. Assuming this is so the resulting signal on either side of the split should be down by 3db or "half". Normally the amplifiers which are at the end of the split signal have enough gain so that 3db should not affect the sound quality. Larry
Re: Sound card question
On 10/02/2015 11:27 AM, Danny wrote: I believe that the output of the headphone jack is not impedance matched--I expect it's just a voltage source. Wat's more, unless you are plugging the same low-impedance devices into both Y outputs, _and_ the source is impedance matched, you would not split the power equally. I don't know what you want to do with the second output, but it's more than likely a relatively high impedance, so it would not load the circuit at all. I could be wrong, but it seems logical to me. --doug O.k ... let me explain why I asked the question for the sake of satisfying any curiosity: I have EchoLink (Ham Radio VOIP) connected to Jessie like this: VHF Transceiver (with two interface cables going to the MIC and LINE-OUT jacks on the back of an internal sound card. Incoming audio (radio frequency) goes through the antenna ... through the transciever ... to the sound card (via the MIC interface cable) ... it gets processed by the sound card and stuff happens on VOIP ... Because the VHF transceiver is effectively turned into a repeater NO transmit or recieve audio can be heard on the transciever itself (as it should be). In order to hear comms coming in or out of the transciever (via an antenna) one has to connect to the transciever with ANOTHER transciever in order to hear people talk (if you are tuned to the same frequency off course) Now ... my second transciever is fitted inside my car ... in order for me to hear all comms on the frequency I need to go to my car and turn that transciever on every now and then which becomes a pain in the donkey ... ;) ... In order for me NOT to make a trip to the car every 10 minutes I though of splitting the LINE-OUT and add a normal set of desktop speakers. So ... I was just wondering if I will have any losses (in whatever form) when I "split" the signal ... keep in mind that the audio signals processed by the sound card should be strong and reliable ... Thank You Danny You didn't mention that you want to add _speakers_. You might need a small amplifier after the Y-adapter, since the speakers will be low impedance--4- or 8 ohms. Visit ramseykits.com and find some small audio amplifiers in kit or assembled form. They are probably overkill for your purpose, but cheap enough. A 14W stereo kit, CK154, will run on 12 to 16 VDC at 1A. $26 for a kit, or $34 assembled. You provide an enclosure and a wall-wart to drive it. (The "14W" rating is for 7W per channel, and I would expect that it's a peak rating, since 16V at 1A is 16 Watts _input_ power! I would guess that rms power is more like 2 or 3 Watts per channel.) I just noticed a smaller one in ramsey: CK122 $20 for the kit, $26 assembled. 0.5W per channel into 4 ohms. Runs on 6VDC. Probably enough for your purposes. There are other small amplifier sources--check on Google. --doug
Re: Sound card question
> I believe that the output of the headphone jack is not impedance matched--I > expect it's just > a voltage source. Wat's more, unless you are plugging the same low-impedance > devices into > both Y outputs, _and_ the source is impedance matched, you would not split > the power > equally. I don't know what you want to do with the second output, but it's > more > than likely a relatively high impedance, so it would not load the circuit at > all. > I could be wrong, but it seems logical to me. > > --doug O.k ... let me explain why I asked the question for the sake of satisfying any curiosity: I have EchoLink (Ham Radio VOIP) connected to Jessie like this: VHF Transceiver (with two interface cables going to the MIC and LINE-OUT jacks on the back of an internal sound card. Incoming audio (radio frequency) goes through the antenna ... through the transciever ... to the sound card (via the MIC interface cable) ... it gets processed by the sound card and stuff happens on VOIP ... Because the VHF transceiver is effectively turned into a repeater NO transmit or recieve audio can be heard on the transciever itself (as it should be). In order to hear comms coming in or out of the transciever (via an antenna) one has to connect to the transciever with ANOTHER transciever in order to hear people talk (if you are tuned to the same frequency off course) Now ... my second transciever is fitted inside my car ... in order for me to hear all comms on the frequency I need to go to my car and turn that transciever on every now and then which becomes a pain in the donkey ... ;) ... In order for me NOT to make a trip to the car every 10 minutes I though of splitting the LINE-OUT and add a normal set of desktop speakers. So ... I was just wondering if I will have any losses (in whatever form) when I "split" the signal ... keep in mind that the audio signals processed by the sound card should be strong and reliable ... Thank You Danny
Re: Sound card question
On Thu, October 1, 2015 3:57 pm, Doug wrote: > What's more, unless you are > plugging the same low-impedance devices into both Y outputs, _and_ the > source is impedance matched, you would not split the power equally. (This is an addendum to my previous reply) There is no "splitting" of power. Whatever device is connected to the LINE OUTPUT jack looks only at the output voltage, and from that voltage generates whatever power is required. In other words, the function of a LINE OUTPUT is to provide a voltage signal, and NOT to transfer power. Almost always, the power-handling capability of a pair of headphones is small in comparison with the power available from the output stage of a computer sound card or a USB audio interface. While a speaker in an enclosure may need a hundred Watts to provide adequate loudness in a room, a pair of headphones typically requires only a thousandth of that power, which is to say, only a few hundred milliWatts per channel. And a single garden-variety transistor stage (or today, an integrated circuit) easily can provide that much power. Here is the URL of a RANE corporation application note which provides and excellent discussion of the matter: http://www.rane.com/pdf/old/note100.pdf RLH
Re: Sound card question
On Thu, October 1, 2015 3:57 pm, Doug wrote: > I believe that the output of the headphone jack is not impedance > matched--I expect it's just a voltage source. Wat's more, unless you are > plugging the same low-impedance devices into both Y outputs, _and_ the > source is impedance matched, you would not split the power equally. I > don't know what you want to do with the second output, but it's more than > likely a relatively high impedance, so it would not load the circuit at > all. I could be wrong, but it seems logical to me. With consumer electronics, the source (LINE OUTPUT) typically is of low impedance, say ten to a hundred Ohms. And the load (LINE INPUT) typically is of high impedance, say a thousand to a hundred thousand Ohms. Consequently, loading is not a concern: the load cannot draw sufficient current to affect the source. Loads typically are connected in parallel one with the other, so no "splitting" or voltage divider is involved, as would be the case if loads were connected in series one with the other. In consumer audio gear, (1) the HEADPHONE output may be driven by a buffer amplifier stage which is driven from the LINE OUTPUT stage. The buffer stage typically is able to provide a hundred milliAmperes or so into any reasonable headphone load. With this arrangement, even a dead short across the output terminals of the buffer amplifier should not affect the LINE OUTPUT. But it may be that (2) the LINE OUTPUT and HEADPHONE jacks are connected in parallel, one with the other, across a single output stage. Again, the output stage is going to be an amplifier which is able to provide a hundred milliAmperes or so into any reasonable headphone load. So, whatever the case, connecting headphones to the HEADPHONE jacks should not cause a lower level of the LINE OUTPUT. RLH
Re: Sound card question
On 10/01/2015 09:52 AM, Danny wrote: On Sep 30 15, Doug : To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:39:16 -0400 From: Doug Subject: Re: Sound card question User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org On 09/30/2015 09:55 AM, Danny wrote: Hi guys, I have a Sigmatel STAC9227 on-board sound card. Everything works fine as it should. It has the normal Mic , Ext.Speaker and Line-Out jacks. Currently the Mic and Ext.Speaker plugs are permanently occupied via speaker/mic headphones (Amateur Radio Stuff) ... What I would like to know is if it would be possible to send audio that goes to the headphones to the Line-Out jack at the same time? Thank You Danny Why not just get a Y adapter? --dm lol ... that never even crossed my mind ... Using a Y-adapter naturally forces the following question: Does it effectively split the power/gain into two and I end up with half on one side and half on the other? Danny I believe that the output of the headphone jack is not impedance matched--I expect it's just a voltage source. Wat's more, unless you are plugging the same low-impedance devices into both Y outputs, _and_ the source is impedance matched, you would not split the power equally. I don't know what you want to do with the second output, but it's more than likely a relatively high impedance, so it would not load the circuit at all. I could be wrong, but it seems logical to me. --doug
Re: Sound card question
Hi there Danny wrote: No jumpers on the motherboard ... :( ... Sometimes it's the way the connector is plugged into the motherboard or the front panel. Sometimes it's a BIOS setting. Look for AC 97. See; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_High_Definition_Audio If all of this fails you need to hack the hardware a bit. See; Regards, Rob -- ISDS is evil. Abolish ISDS.
Re: Sound card question
On Thu, October 1, 2015 8:52 am, Danny wrote: > Using a Y-adapter naturally forces the following question: > Does it effectively split the power/gain into two and I end up with half > on one side and half on the other? A Y-adapter simply parallels two circuits. There is no splitting as such. The driving capability of the output circuitry normally is sufficient to keep the output level nearly constant for any reasonable load. Headphones are the worst-case load; the input circuitry of an external amplifier presents no appreciable load. So the external amplifier sees whatever output level results from plugging in the headphones. RLH
Re: Sound card question
No jumpers on the motherboard ... :( ... On Oct 01 15, Rob van der Putten : > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:06:25 +0200 > From: Rob van der Putten > Subject: Re: Sound card question > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130119 > Firefox/10.0.11esrpre Iceape/2.7.12 > X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Hi there > > > Seeker wrote: > > > > >If you do actually have an audio out and a line out and the line out > >doesn't produce > >audio when something is plugged into the audio out, it may be an > >indication that it's > >a hardwired mechanical function built into the audio out jack to break > >the circuit to the > >line out jack when anything is plugged into audio out. > > Systems with headphone jack at the front and a line out at the rear, will > often switch of the the line out off when a headphone is plugged in. > This feature can usually be switched of by means of a jumper on the > motherboard. > Consult your motherboard documentation. > > > > > Regards, > Rob
Re: Sound card question
I checked alsamixer and have no means to enable/disable channels ... :( ... On Sep 30 15, Seeker : > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:10:39 -0700 > From: Seeker > Subject: Re: Sound card question > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 > Thunderbird/38.2.0 > X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > > On 9/30/2015 10:39 AM, Doug wrote: > > > > > >On 09/30/2015 09:55 AM, Danny wrote: > >>Hi guys, > >> > >>I have a Sigmatel STAC9227 on-board sound card. Everything works fine as > >>it > >>should. It has the normal Mic , Ext.Speaker and Line-Out jacks. > >> > >>Currently the Mic and Ext.Speaker plugs are permanently occupied via > >>speaker/mic > >>headphones (Amateur Radio Stuff) ... > >> > >>What I would like to know is if it would be possible to send audio that > >>goes to > >>the headphones to the Line-Out jack at the same time? > >> > >>Thank You > >> > >>Danny > >> > >> > >Why not just get a Y adapter? > > > >--dm > > > Ditto on the Y adapter, or some other external solution. > > Normal 3 jack hardware would be Pink (Microphone), Green (Audio Out), Blue > (Line In). > > Some hardware implementations do allow some jack functions to be changed, > but that > may or may not be the case for your specific hardware and if the hardware is > capable > may or may not be a feature that is implemented in the linux driver/mixer > software. > > Normally if it is an option that is implemented I would expect it to show as > a toggle in > one of the alsa mixers, possibly in the pulse audio stuff as well, similar > to the way > 'Mic Boost' might show in the mixers when the hardware supports that > function. > > If you do actually have an audio out and a line out and the line out doesn't > produce > audio when something is plugged into the audio out, it may be an indication > that it's > a hardwired mechanical function built into the audio out jack to break the > circuit to the > line out jack when anything is plugged into audio out. > > There are a few variables between the capabilities of the audio chip, the > mixer it is paired > with at the hardware level, the way the jacks are routed to these and the > way these show > up in the mixer at the software level. > > Maybe someone with the same/similar audio hardware will chime in with what > they see. > > Later, Seeker
Re: Sound card question
On Sep 30 15, Doug : > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:39:16 -0400 > From: Doug > Subject: Re: Sound card question > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 > Thunderbird/38.2.0 > X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > > On 09/30/2015 09:55 AM, Danny wrote: > >Hi guys, > > > >I have a Sigmatel STAC9227 on-board sound card. Everything works fine as it > >should. It has the normal Mic , Ext.Speaker and Line-Out jacks. > > > >Currently the Mic and Ext.Speaker plugs are permanently occupied via > >speaker/mic > >headphones (Amateur Radio Stuff) ... > > > >What I would like to know is if it would be possible to send audio that goes > >to > >the headphones to the Line-Out jack at the same time? > > > >Thank You > > > >Danny > > > > > Why not just get a Y adapter? > > --dm lol ... that never even crossed my mind ... Using a Y-adapter naturally forces the following question: Does it effectively split the power/gain into two and I end up with half on one side and half on the other? Danny
Re: Sound card question
I actually ordered a Lexicon Omega for my son on e-Bay 2 weeks ago (still waiting for delivery ... ;) ) ... however, it is a little overkill for my use ... but thank you anyway for your input ... >n Sep 30 15, rlhar...@oplink.net : > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 09:36:15 -0500 > From: rlhar...@oplink.net > Subject: Re: Sound card question > User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.2 [SVN] > X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Wed, September 30, 2015 8:55 am, Danny wrote: > > What I would like to know is if it would be possible to send audio that > > goes to the headphones to the Line-Out jack at the same time? > > I would be surprised that the case is otherwise. I always install > "pavucontrol" (pulse audio volume control), which may be all you need. > > But "jack" can provide any signal routing you need. > > A few years back I began using a USB interface for sound on everything. > This approach allows me to switch the entire sound apparatus from one > machine to another with only a single USB cable, so long as the machine > has a USB port and pavucontrol is installed. And I no longer have to > worry about the idiosyncrasies of all various on-board sound systems. > > One advantage of the USB interface approach to sound is the ability to use > professional (that is, balanced) apparatus, which, by design, eliminates > hum and buzz. You might find balanced gear advantageous when > radio-frequency interference (RFI) is a consideration. > > Entertainment and broadcast supply houses (bswusa.com, fullcompass.com, > markertek.com, bandh.com) stock a variety of economical USB interfaces. > > For many in the audio business (podcasting, performance, and audio mixing > and editing), USB sound has obsoleted bus-based sound cards. > > The Lexicon Alpha at less than fifty dollars is versatile and reliable, > and is powered from the USB bus. The Lexicon design (Alpha and Omega) > uses the mixer paradigm, and can accommodate a mix of balanced and > unbalanced inputs and outputs. > > RLH >
Re: Sound card question
Hi there Seeker wrote: If you do actually have an audio out and a line out and the line out doesn't produce audio when something is plugged into the audio out, it may be an indication that it's a hardwired mechanical function built into the audio out jack to break the circuit to the line out jack when anything is plugged into audio out. Systems with headphone jack at the front and a line out at the rear, will often switch of the the line out off when a headphone is plugged in. This feature can usually be switched of by means of a jumper on the motherboard. Consult your motherboard documentation. Regards, Rob
Re: Sound card question
On 9/30/2015 10:39 AM, Doug wrote: On 09/30/2015 09:55 AM, Danny wrote: Hi guys, I have a Sigmatel STAC9227 on-board sound card. Everything works fine as it should. It has the normal Mic , Ext.Speaker and Line-Out jacks. Currently the Mic and Ext.Speaker plugs are permanently occupied via speaker/mic headphones (Amateur Radio Stuff) ... What I would like to know is if it would be possible to send audio that goes to the headphones to the Line-Out jack at the same time? Thank You Danny Why not just get a Y adapter? --dm Ditto on the Y adapter, or some other external solution. Normal 3 jack hardware would be Pink (Microphone), Green (Audio Out), Blue (Line In). Some hardware implementations do allow some jack functions to be changed, but that may or may not be the case for your specific hardware and if the hardware is capable may or may not be a feature that is implemented in the linux driver/mixer software. Normally if it is an option that is implemented I would expect it to show as a toggle in one of the alsa mixers, possibly in the pulse audio stuff as well, similar to the way 'Mic Boost' might show in the mixers when the hardware supports that function. If you do actually have an audio out and a line out and the line out doesn't produce audio when something is plugged into the audio out, it may be an indication that it's a hardwired mechanical function built into the audio out jack to break the circuit to the line out jack when anything is plugged into audio out. There are a few variables between the capabilities of the audio chip, the mixer it is paired with at the hardware level, the way the jacks are routed to these and the way these show up in the mixer at the software level. Maybe someone with the same/similar audio hardware will chime in with what they see. Later, Seeker
Re: Sound card question
On 09/30/2015 09:55 AM, Danny wrote: Hi guys, I have a Sigmatel STAC9227 on-board sound card. Everything works fine as it should. It has the normal Mic , Ext.Speaker and Line-Out jacks. Currently the Mic and Ext.Speaker plugs are permanently occupied via speaker/mic headphones (Amateur Radio Stuff) ... What I would like to know is if it would be possible to send audio that goes to the headphones to the Line-Out jack at the same time? Thank You Danny Why not just get a Y adapter? --dm
Re: Sound card question
On Wed, September 30, 2015 8:55 am, Danny wrote: > What I would like to know is if it would be possible to send audio that > goes to the headphones to the Line-Out jack at the same time? I would be surprised that the case is otherwise. I always install "pavucontrol" (pulse audio volume control), which may be all you need. But "jack" can provide any signal routing you need. A few years back I began using a USB interface for sound on everything. This approach allows me to switch the entire sound apparatus from one machine to another with only a single USB cable, so long as the machine has a USB port and pavucontrol is installed. And I no longer have to worry about the idiosyncrasies of all various on-board sound systems. One advantage of the USB interface approach to sound is the ability to use professional (that is, balanced) apparatus, which, by design, eliminates hum and buzz. You might find balanced gear advantageous when radio-frequency interference (RFI) is a consideration. Entertainment and broadcast supply houses (bswusa.com, fullcompass.com, markertek.com, bandh.com) stock a variety of economical USB interfaces. For many in the audio business (podcasting, performance, and audio mixing and editing), USB sound has obsoleted bus-based sound cards. The Lexicon Alpha at less than fifty dollars is versatile and reliable, and is powered from the USB bus. The Lexicon design (Alpha and Omega) uses the mixer paradigm, and can accommodate a mix of balanced and unbalanced inputs and outputs. RLH
Sound card question
Hi guys, I have a Sigmatel STAC9227 on-board sound card. Everything works fine as it should. It has the normal Mic , Ext.Speaker and Line-Out jacks. Currently the Mic and Ext.Speaker plugs are permanently occupied via speaker/mic headphones (Amateur Radio Stuff) ... What I would like to know is if it would be possible to send audio that goes to the headphones to the Line-Out jack at the same time? Thank You Danny
Re: No Flash-based audio in Google Chrome/Chromium with a USB Sound Card
>> Maybe your problem? You might have to revert to a previous version >> (which would involve a manual extraction from an older Chrome package). >> > > Or maybe not because you're talking about audio only--sorry about that. No worries, Curt. It looks like I will be filing a bug report. Thanks for reaching out anyway. -- Pete Orrall p...@cs1x.com www.peteorrall.com "If there isn't a way, I'll make one." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAB43J+LN+qKoZFwnUxfQBNv_EKVUvkts+gN7-nE2TyJ+De4z=g...@mail.gmail.com
Re: No Flash-based audio in Google Chrome/Chromium with a USB Sound Card
On 2014-12-05, Curt wrote: > On 2014-12-05, Pete Orrall wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am apologizing for the long post now. I installed Wheezy a couple >> weeks ago on my workstation and things are fantasticwith the >> exception of a Flash-based audio problem: I don't have audio from any >> Flash-based media (Youtube, Vimeo, or otherwise) in either Google >> Chrome or Chromium. I installed the pepperflashplugin-nonfree plugin >> and have followed much of the documentation on the Debian Wiki > > I found this bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761184 > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2014/09/msg00046.html > > (links against GLIBC_2.14) > > Maybe your problem? You might have to revert to a previous version > (which would involve a manual extraction from an older Chrome package). > Or maybe not because you're talking about audio only--sorry about that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnm83oda.2bu.cu...@einstein.electron.org
Re: No Flash-based audio in Google Chrome/Chromium with a USB Sound Card
On 2014-12-05, Pete Orrall wrote: > Hi All, > > I am apologizing for the long post now. I installed Wheezy a couple > weeks ago on my workstation and things are fantasticwith the > exception of a Flash-based audio problem: I don't have audio from any > Flash-based media (Youtube, Vimeo, or otherwise) in either Google > Chrome or Chromium. I installed the pepperflashplugin-nonfree plugin > and have followed much of the documentation on the Debian Wiki I found this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761184 https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2014/09/msg00046.html (links against GLIBC_2.14) Maybe your problem? You might have to revert to a previous version (which would involve a manual extraction from an older Chrome package). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnm83o56.2bu.cu...@einstein.electron.org
No Flash-based audio in Google Chrome/Chromium with a USB Sound Card
Hi All, I am apologizing for the long post now. I installed Wheezy a couple weeks ago on my workstation and things are fantasticwith the exception of a Flash-based audio problem: I don't have audio from any Flash-based media (Youtube, Vimeo, or otherwise) in either Google Chrome or Chromium. I installed the pepperflashplugin-nonfree plugin and have followed much of the documentation on the Debian Wiki regarding this issue. Removing and reinstalling both Chrome and Pepper Flash have not changed the situation. I have also spent several hours Googling this problem without resolve. I don't have this Flash-based audio problem with Iceweasel. Playing audio/video from Audacious and VLC work fine. My motherboard is an ASRock 990FX Extreme9 with its own onboard NVidia audio chip. I disabled this sound card a long time ago in the BIOS. My audio interface is a USB Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 which ALSA supports. I installed Wheezy via the DVD using the Expert Installer and a minimal install which included SSH and the base system. Post-installation I installed xorg, openbox, and some other desktop-related packages as well as multimedia stuff from the deb-multimedia repo. Some other things worth noting: 1) I have Wheezy installed on my ThinkPad L530 with the same (or at least darn-near identical) installation method and package selection and uses the laptop's onboard audio. The laptop doesn't experience this problem *at all* and instead works just fine. 2) This workstation is also dualbooted with Windows 7 Professional where I also use Google Chrome and do not experience this audio problem. 3) I have had other distributions (CentOS 6.5 and openSUSE 13.1, respectively) installed on this machine with the SAME hardware configuration and never experienced these Chrome/Chromium audio problems. Does anyone have any ideas? Is there some sound-related configuration I'm missing or have I stumbled across a bug? -- Pete Orrall p...@cs1x.com www.peteorrall.com "If there isn't a way, I'll make one." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAB43J++mY_z47d=7-sht4qrhyvem7uvt_q6acr_ebfxthro...@mail.gmail.com
Re: why does my sound card not work?
On 30/12/13 14:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 02:32:44PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 30/12/13 14:15, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:54:12AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: dpkg --get-selections | grep 'alsa\|pulse' libpulse0:i386 install >>> >>> What!? >> >> The only alsa or pulse-audio packages he has installed. > > Yep, and that ain't good, is it? Not if you want sound... of course it'd be helpful to know what the OP wants to do with the sound (and what release is in use). That way a sound system that supports the intended application can be installed, generally alsa alone will do the job but some apps and environments have different, um, preferences. > >>> What is complete/unedited output of: >>> root@tal:~# dpkg -l alsa* >> >> Nothing. > > There must be some output!? Even the symbols at the beginning of the > line tell you *something* dpkg -l can only provide useful information on what's installed > > What am I mising here? ... (if you want sound you need ALSA) > Yes. That's why I checked to see if he had it installed first before trying to configure what doesn't exist. Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52c0ef8b.4030...@gmail.com
Re: why does my sound card not work?
On 30/12/13 02:54, Long Wind wrote: > Even though I don't think it can be solved, I follow your instruction anyway > I use wheezy > (I run your commands with motherboard's sound chip enabled) > > lspci | grep -i audio > > 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 07) > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) Thanks. > > modprobe snd-ens1371 > get no output So no problem there. It's after that the problem occurs. > > dpkg --get-selections | grep 'alsa\|pulse' > libpulse0:i386install # apt-get install alsa-base alsamixergui alsa-utils NOTE: once the latter is installed you can run the tests Ralph suggests. > > cat /var/log/syslog | grep -i "warn\|fail\|alert\|error\|es1\|snd_\|ac'97" > > Dec 27 06:50:34 debian kernel: [ 2119.355883] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] > Unhandled error code Install the packages as suggested above. Then work through Ralph's suggestions. Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52c0ed79.90...@gmail.com
Re: why does my sound card not work?
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 02:32:44PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 30/12/13 14:15, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:54:12AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > >> > >> dpkg --get-selections | grep 'alsa\|pulse' > >> libpulse0:i386 install > > > > What!? > > The only alsa or pulse-audio packages he has installed. Yep, and that ain't good, is it? > > What is complete/unedited output of: > > root@tal:~# dpkg -l alsa* > > Nothing. There must be some output!? Even the symbols at the beginning of the line tell you *something* What am I mising here? ... (if you want sound you need ALSA) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131230034519.GA9329@tal
Re: why does my sound card not work?
On 30/12/13 14:15, Chris Bannister wrote: > [How about trimming your posts mate! makes it a lot easier to read!] > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:54:12AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: >> Even though I don't think it can be solved, I follow your instruction anyway >> I use wheezy >> (I run your commands with motherboard's sound chip enabled) >> >> lspci | grep -i audio >> >> 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 07) >> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. >> VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) >> >> modprobe snd-ens1371 >> get no output >> >> dpkg --get-selections | grep 'alsa\|pulse' >> libpulse0:i386 install > > What!? The only alsa or pulse-audio packages he has installed. > > What is complete/unedited output of: > root@tal:~# dpkg -l alsa* Nothing. > Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52c0e95c.9040...@gmail.com
Re: why does my sound card not work?
[How about trimming your posts mate! makes it a lot easier to read!] On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:54:12AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > Even though I don't think it can be solved, I follow your instruction anyway > I use wheezy > (I run your commands with motherboard's sound chip enabled) > > lspci | grep -i audio > > 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 07) > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) > > modprobe snd-ens1371 > get no output > > dpkg --get-selections | grep 'alsa\|pulse' > libpulse0:i386install What!? What is complete/unedited output of: root@tal:~# dpkg -l alsa* I didn't read the rest of your post, but noticed some stuff about your filesystem - has some sort of corruption occurred? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131230031543.GA8738@tal
Re: why does my sound card not work?
On 30 December 2013 03:02, Long Wind wrote: > > which package has arecord and aplay? See "Search the contents of packages" at: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAMPXz=ruqzws9yulsp5t5xtmade0nrw2m4yrstkcy_7cngo...@mail.gmail.com
Re: why does my sound card not work?
On Dec 29, 2013 at 18:21, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-12-29 at 11:02 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > > (I go to bed now) > > While I do your homework :D. > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=debian+package+aplay :-) -Ivan signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: why does my sound card not work?
On Sun, 2013-12-29 at 11:02 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > (I go to bed now) While I do your homework :D. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=debian+package+aplay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1388334073.1062.143.camel@archlinux
Re: why does my sound card not work?
which package has arecord and aplay? (I go to bed now) Thanks! On 12/29/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 00:12 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 29/12/13 23:17, Long Wind wrote: >> > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.608060] snd_ens1371: probe of >> > :00:09.0 failed with error -5 >> P.S. apropos of nothing - pulse-audio is not the problem (and peasants >> carrying pitchforks and burning torches is not the solution). > > Sure, since the driver failed. > > $ lsmod | grep snd > >> $ lspci | grep -i audio > $ arecord -l > $ aplay -l > $ uname -a > $ cat /etc/issue > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1388326124.1062.119.camel@archlinux > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAB-gxZD1=auo3ndhfx_2rr-zgnypdcgwdjhxezhgapk9dmx...@mail.gmail.com
Re: why does my sound card not work?
which package has arecord and aplay? (I go to bed now) Thanks! On 12/29/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 00:12 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 29/12/13 23:17, Long Wind wrote: >> > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.608060] snd_ens1371: probe of >> > :00:09.0 failed with error -5 >> P.S. apropos of nothing - pulse-audio is not the problem (and peasants >> carrying pitchforks and burning torches is not the solution). > > Sure, since the driver failed. > > $ lsmod | grep snd > >> $ lspci | grep -i audio > $ arecord -l > $ aplay -l > $ uname -a > $ cat /etc/issue > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1388326124.1062.119.camel@archlinux > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cab-gxzcoga1exf4ecnepvuy6o0k20pwv3crphpbrkl0fep7...@mail.gmail.com
Re: why does my sound card not work?
Even though I don't think it can be solved, I follow your instruction anyway I use wheezy (I run your commands with motherboard's sound chip enabled) lspci | grep -i audio 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 07) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) modprobe snd-ens1371 get no output dpkg --get-selections | grep 'alsa\|pulse' libpulse0:i386 install cat /var/log/syslog | grep -i "warn\|fail\|alert\|error\|es1\|snd_\|ac'97" Dec 27 06:50:34 debian kernel: [ 2119.355883] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code Dec 27 06:50:34 debian kernel: [ 2119.355894] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Dec 27 06:50:34 debian kernel: [ 2119.355923] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 138 Dec 27 06:51:07 debian kernel: [ 2151.983469] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code Dec 27 06:51:07 debian kernel: [ 2151.983479] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Dec 27 06:51:07 debian kernel: [ 2151.983510] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 113600 Dec 27 07:50:40 debian kernel: [6.519112] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting... Dec 27 07:50:40 debian kernel: [6.928370] snd_ens1371 :02:0a.0: enabling device (0100 -> 0101) Dec 27 07:50:40 debian kernel: [ 10.633007] EXT4-fs (sda4): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro Dec 27 07:50:40 debian kernel: [ 13.024569] EXT2-fs (sda3): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended Dec 27 08:04:44 debian kernel: [ 859.873947] tulip :02:09.0: eth1: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed (CSR5 0xfc664010 CSR6 0xff972113) Dec 27 12:04:42 debian kernel: [6.462712] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting... Dec 27 12:04:42 debian kernel: [6.864373] snd_ens1371 :02:0a.0: enabling device (0100 -> 0101) Dec 27 12:04:42 debian kernel: [ 10.092304] EXT4-fs (sda4): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro Dec 27 12:04:42 debian kernel: [ 12.527636] EXT2-fs (sda3): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended Dec 28 02:02:01 debian kernel: [6.225890] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting... Dec 28 02:02:01 debian kernel: [6.701530] snd_ens1371 :02:0a.0: enabling device (0100 -> 0101) Dec 28 02:02:01 debian kernel: [9.622658] EXT4-fs (sda4): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro Dec 28 04:04:13 debian kernel: [5.562543] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting... Dec 28 04:04:13 debian kernel: [5.763735] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! Dec 28 04:04:13 debian kernel: [5.763792] radeon :01:00.0: failed initializing CP (-2). Dec 28 04:04:13 debian kernel: [5.795427] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! Dec 28 04:04:13 debian kernel: [5.795483] radeon :01:00.0: failed initializing CP (-2). Dec 28 04:04:13 debian kernel: [6.117665] snd_via82xx :00:11.5: setting latency timer to 64 Dec 28 04:04:13 debian kernel: [8.284441] EXT4-fs (sda4): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro Dec 28 04:22:40 debian kernel: [5.751902] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting... Dec 28 04:22:40 debian kernel: [5.790213] snd_via82xx :00:11.5: setting latency timer to 64 Dec 28 04:22:40 debian kernel: [5.969585] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! Dec 28 04:22:40 debian kernel: [5.969641] radeon :01:00.0: failed initializing CP (-2). Dec 28 04:22:40 debian kernel: [5.990994] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! Dec 28 04:22:40 debian kernel: [5.991050] radeon :01:00.0: failed initializing CP (-2). Dec 28 04:22:40 debian kernel: [8.565069] EXT4-fs (sda4): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro Dec 28 04:39:42 debian kernel: [5.577955] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting... Dec 28 04:39:42 debian kernel: [5.687408] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! Dec 28 04:39:42 debian kernel: [5.687466] radeon :01:00.0: failed initializing CP (-2). Dec 28 04:39:42 debian kernel: [5.714498] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! Dec 28 04:39:42 debian kernel: [5.714555] radeon :01:00.0: failed initializing CP (-2). Dec 28 04:39:42 debian kernel: [5.745036] snd_via82xx :00:11.5: setting latency timer to 64 Dec 28 04:39:42 debian kernel: [8.066477] EXT4-fs (sda4): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro Dec 28 05:41:47 debian kernel: [5.623937] snd_via82xx :00:11.5: setting latency timer to 64 Dec 28 05:41:47 debian kernel: [5.719389] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting... Dec 28 05:41:47 debian kernel: [6.037201] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! Dec 28 05:41:47 debian kernel: [6.037257] radeon :01:00.0: failed initializing CP (-2). Dec 28 05:41:47 debian kernel: [6.063767] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Fa
Re: why does my sound card not work?
On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 00:12 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 29/12/13 23:17, Long Wind wrote: > > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.608060] snd_ens1371: probe of > > :00:09.0 failed with error -5 > P.S. apropos of nothing - pulse-audio is not the problem (and peasants > carrying pitchforks and burning torches is not the solution). Sure, since the driver failed. $ lsmod | grep snd > $ lspci | grep -i audio $ arecord -l $ aplay -l $ uname -a $ cat /etc/issue -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1388326124.1062.119.camel@archlinux
Re: why does my sound card not work?
On 29/12/13 23:17, Long Wind wrote: > I install a pci sound card and disable motherboard's sound chip in BIOS > I remember it worked but it doesn't work now > no matter how hard I try > below are some syslog: > (Thanks!!!) > > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [5.391137] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' > is already registered, aborting... The above is not an error > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [5.564947] es1371: codec read > timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] The above is an error... :( > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [5.591410] es1371: codec read > timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [5.626852] codec write timeout at > 0xb014 [0x4000] > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [5.652723] codec write timeout at > 0xb014 [0x4000] > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.434357] es1371: codec read > timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.460931] es1371: codec read > timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.487637] es1371: codec read > timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.566440] es1371: codec read > timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.593061] es1371: codec read > timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.593115] AC'97 0 access is not > valid [0x0], removing mixer. > Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.608060] snd_ens1371: probe of > :00:09.0 failed with error -5 > > please post:- $ lspci | grep -i audio and (just the last few hours - put on pastebin if large):- # cat /var/log/syslog | grep -i "warn\|fail\|alert\|error\|es1\|snd_\|ac'97" also:- $ dpkg --get-selections | grep 'alsa\|pulse' finally:- # modprobe snd-ens1371 Could give us a tiny clue about which Debian release you are using? ;) Kind regards P.S. apropos of nothing - pulse-audio is not the problem (and peasants carrying pitchforks and burning torches is not the solution). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52c01fb9.2060...@gmail.com
why does my sound card not work?
I install a pci sound card and disable motherboard's sound chip in BIOS I remember it worked but it doesn't work now no matter how hard I try below are some syslog: (Thanks!!!) Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [5.391137] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting... Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [5.564947] es1371: codec read timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [5.591410] es1371: codec read timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [5.626852] codec write timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [5.652723] codec write timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.434357] es1371: codec read timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.460931] es1371: codec read timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.487637] es1371: codec read timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.566440] es1371: codec read timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.593061] es1371: codec read timeout at 0xb014 [0x4000] Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.593115] AC'97 0 access is not valid [0x0], removing mixer. Dec 29 15:09:34 debian kernel: [6.608060] snd_ens1371: probe of :00:09.0 failed with error -5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAB-gxZB+ghzQ26BXa3rQMAgCjqn6JQ2ZvG2u7C8uJavgTZw=8...@mail.gmail.com
Re: After updating wheezy, sound card not properly recognized anymore
Simon Hoerder, 9.11.2012: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA224 > > On 09/11/12 10:47, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Check your DE's Pulseaudio settings too. > > > > > > Hi, > > Using PulseAudio Volume control: > Nothing is muted, all volume settings are 100%. But it lists "Dummy > Output" as output device. > > Using PulseAudio Manager: > As sink only auto_null (Description - "Dummy Output") is listed and > when I play music (e.g. from Rhythmbox) it is listed for that sink and > the volume meters are active, indicating the music to be played. > > Server Information: > Server Name: pulseaudio > Server Version: 2.0 > Default Sample Type: s16le 2ch 44100Hz > Host Name: [ok] > Use Name:simon > Default Sink:auto_null > Default Source: auto_null.monitor > > Client Information: > Linked to Library Version: 2.0.0 > Compiled with Library Version: 0.9.8 > > The client information looks odd to me. > > I've attached the pulse configuration files. In the .conf files, > everything seems to be commented out. I've had a quick look at the .pa > files but decided I better not mess with them. I'm not too familiar with the intricacies of Pulse Audio but I had a problem on a wheezy machine relatively recently that was solved when I added the user to the "audio" group. (PA seems to run either in system mode or user mode. In the latter, only members of audio can use stuff.) BTW, in your previous message I noticed you used sudo for lspci, lsmod and dmesg. You can run those with just a plain user. On the other hand, if your sound issue was really system vs. user, then maybe if you'd run speaker-test with sudo, you'd have heard something. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2012103906.gc9...@cs.utexas.edu
Re: After updating wheezy, sound card not properly recognized anymore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 On 09/11/12 10:47, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Check your DE's Pulseaudio settings too. > > Hi, Using PulseAudio Volume control: Nothing is muted, all volume settings are 100%. But it lists "Dummy Output" as output device. Using PulseAudio Manager: As sink only auto_null (Description - "Dummy Output") is listed and when I play music (e.g. from Rhythmbox) it is listed for that sink and the volume meters are active, indicating the music to be played. Server Information: Server Name: pulseaudio Server Version: 2.0 Default Sample Type: s16le 2ch 44100Hz Host Name: [ok] Use Name:simon Default Sink:auto_null Default Source: auto_null.monitor Client Information: Linked to Library Version: 2.0.0 Compiled with Library Version: 0.9.8 The client information looks odd to me. I've attached the pulse configuration files. In the .conf files, everything seems to be commented out. I've had a quick look at the .pa files but decided I better not mess with them. Best, Simon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iFYEARELAAYFAlCc5gQACgkQE8ykjYCSVs4+bQDfY83rPniGlOHvmyV95i+VxJCf syE7JK7q5j9rbQDbBa8R+NSx3Pl9/D9E78/2ExVoETmfAZpzFWJhqQ== =OeTg -END PGP SIGNATURE- # This file is part of PulseAudio. # # PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License # along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 # USA. ## Configuration file for PulseAudio clients. See pulse-client.conf(5) for ## more information. Default values are commented out. Use either ; or # for ## commenting. ; default-sink = ; default-source = ; default-server = ; default-dbus-server = ; autospawn = yes ; daemon-binary = /usr/bin/pulseaudio ; extra-arguments = --log-target=syslog ; cookie-file = ; enable-shm = yes ; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB ; auto-connect-localhost = no ; auto-connect-display = no # This file is part of PulseAudio. # # PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License # along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 # USA. ## Configuration file for the PulseAudio daemon. See pulse-daemon.conf(5) for ## more information. Default values are commented out. Use either ; or # for ## commenting. ; daemonize = no ; fail = yes ; allow-module-loading = yes ; allow-exit = yes ; use-pid-file = yes ; system-instance = no ; local-server-type = user ; enable-shm = yes ; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB ; lock-memory = no ; cpu-limit = no ; high-priority = yes ; nice-level = -11 ; realtime-scheduling = yes ; realtime-priority = 5 ; exit-idle-time = 20 ; scache-idle-time = 20 ; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture) ; load-default-script-file = yes ; default-script-file = /etc/pulse/default.pa ; log-target = auto ; log-level = notice ; log-meta = no ; log-time = no ; log-backtrace = 0 ; resample-method = speex-float-3 ; enable-remixing = yes ; enable-lfe-remixing = no ; flat-volumes = yes ; rlimit-fsize = -1 ; rlimit-data = -1 ; rlimit-stack = -1 ; rlimit-core = -1 ; rlimit-as = -1 ; rlimit-rss = -1 ; rlimit-nproc = -1 ; rlimit-nofile = 256 ; rlimit-memlock = -1 ; rlimit-locks = -1 ; rlimit-sigpending = -1 ; rlimit-msgqueue = -1 ; rlimit-nice = 31 ; rlimit-rtprio = 9 ; rlimit-rttime = 100 ; default-sample-format = s16le ; default-sample-rate = 44100 ; alternate-sample-rate = 48000 ; default-sample-channels = 2 ; default-channel-map = front-left,front-right ; default-fragments = 4 ; default-fragment-size-msec = 25 ; enable-deferred-volume = yes ; deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 8000 ; deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0 #!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF #
Re: After updating wheezy, sound card not properly recognized anymore
Check your DE's Pulseaudio settings too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1352458067.2255.0.camel@precise
After updating wheezy, sound card not properly recognized anymore
Hi, after installing automatic updates a few weeks ago for my wheezy box, sound disappeared. I'm using the box only occasionally and didn't immediately try to figure out what's wrong - I assumed the next update would fix it. Sadly, I'm still without sound. (That is one kernel update later.) First I checked that nothing is muted and that all sound output is at maximum. Doing that I noticed in the sound settings (little speaker symbol in the top right hand corner of gnome, then sound settings) that only a dummy output device is listed. That's probably bad. I'm using the onboard sound of the Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4 mainboard with Intel Z68 Express Chipset. The specs say it should be using the Realtek ALC889 codec. Next I checked whether modules are loaded (as far as I can see, they are; lsmod output is further below) and whether the speakers work (they do). Then I started to google for debugging howtos and possible fixes. Most of what I found suggested to write something like pcm.!default { type hw card 0 device 0 } ctl.!default { type hw card 0 device 0 } into ~.asoundrc or into /etc/asoundrc. None of those existed but creating them (and testing different card/devices values) didn't work. On the upside I learned about aplay and speaker-test (see output below) which seem to indicate that the sound isn't going to the correct device. Another suggestion was to use alsa-info.sh to gather information about the current alsa configuration. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the script. Which package does it belong to? Has it been replaced with something newer? Or do I have to download it manually from the alsa project webpage? I'm not a Linux pro and this is as far as I got. Any help to fix the issue would be appreciated. Best, Simon ~$ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC889 Analog [ALC889 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC889 Digital [ALC889 Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ~$ aplay -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) pulse PulseAudio Sound Server default:CARD=PCH HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog Default Audio Device sysdefault:CARD=PCH HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog Default Audio Device front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog Front speakers surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Digital IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0 HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0 HDMI Audio Output speaker-test results in a nutshell: null | fail pulse | fail default| OK sysdefault | OK front | fail surround40 | fail surround41 | fail surround50 | OK surround51 | fail surround71 | fail iec958 | fail hdmi | fail (Please see the attachment for all speaker-test output.) ~$ uname -a Linux Stoertebecker 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.32-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux ~$ lspci | grep Audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05) 01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Turks/Whistler HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6000 Series] ~$ sudo lspci -s 00:1b.0 -vv 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a132 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- Capabilities: [150 v1] Advanced Error Reporting UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol- UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol- UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol- CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+ CEMsk: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+ AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCa
Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:57:07PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no > > other output from: modprobe snd_pcm_oss so in order to get that working I > > will probably have to install alsa-oss. The oss drivers may be completely > > inappropriate for this card too.On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote: > > This is perfectly normal behaviour. > > The GNU philosophy is, usually, to only complain in case of an error. > Most tools will NOT output anything (extra) in case of success. If you > get no output and the return value is 0, then the module was probed > successfully. To confirm that, run "lsmod" to see that it's loaded; if > it isn't, then maybe it loaded correctly and then unloaded due to an > error (check your logs. Note that snd_pcm_oss probably won't do that, > but some other could, I suppose). > > Also note that snd_pcm_oss doesn't actually load the OSS sound system, > it just provides a compatibility layer so that programs which don't > speak ALSA can still use the OSS interface. > > > > > > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > > > > > Yes I have sound. rexima and aumix appear unable to locate any cards > > > > even with several different combinations of items parsed from the > > > > relevant lspci line. > > > > > > According to [1] (which probably applies), you might want to try > > > something like "rexima -d /dev/mixer". Parsing strings to rexima or > > > aumix that have been taken from the output of lspci probably isn't the > > > right thing to do. > > > > > > What exactly are you doing, and do you get any error messages? > > > > > > > > > [1]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/rexima.1.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > jude > > Adobe fiend for failing to Flash > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > Archive: > > http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1209041754100.30...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg > > The interesting thing is before I ran that modprobe command there was no /dev/mixer on the system. After I ran the modprobe command though, /dev/mixer must have been created and enabled. > --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1209052201220.82...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:57:07PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no > other output from: modprobe snd_pcm_oss so in order to get that working I > will probably have to install alsa-oss. The oss drivers may be completely > inappropriate for this card too.On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote: This is perfectly normal behaviour. The GNU philosophy is, usually, to only complain in case of an error. Most tools will NOT output anything (extra) in case of success. If you get no output and the return value is 0, then the module was probed successfully. To confirm that, run "lsmod" to see that it's loaded; if it isn't, then maybe it loaded correctly and then unloaded due to an error (check your logs. Note that snd_pcm_oss probably won't do that, but some other could, I suppose). Also note that snd_pcm_oss doesn't actually load the OSS sound system, it just provides a compatibility layer so that programs which don't speak ALSA can still use the OSS interface. > > > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > > > Yes I have sound. rexima and aumix appear unable to locate any cards > > > even with several different combinations of items parsed from the > > > relevant lspci line. > > > > According to [1] (which probably applies), you might want to try > > something like "rexima -d /dev/mixer". Parsing strings to rexima or > > aumix that have been taken from the output of lspci probably isn't the > > right thing to do. > > > > What exactly are you doing, and do you get any error messages? > > > > > > [1]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/rexima.1.html > > > > > > > > --- > jude > Adobe fiend for failing to Flash > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1209041754100.30...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg > signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
Okay, that modprobe command woke up the mixer and rexima found it with: rexima -d /dev/mixer and took control as it had done on other computers I had. I play frotz games and those have oss type sound effects in them I've not heard since the first days I played infocom games on dos on a pc all those years ago so this should be interesting. Thanks much for all who have helped. I'll put a couple more commands in the file I use to customize debian on this machine. On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no > other output from: modprobe snd_pcm_oss so in order to get that working I > will probably have to install alsa-oss. The oss drivers may be completely > inappropriate for this card too.On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote: > > > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > > > Yes I have sound. rexima and aumix appear unable to locate any cards > > > even with several different combinations of items parsed from the > > > relevant lspci line. > > > > According to [1] (which probably applies), you might want to try > > something like "rexima -d /dev/mixer". Parsing strings to rexima or > > aumix that have been taken from the output of lspci probably isn't the > > right thing to do. > > > > What exactly are you doing, and do you get any error messages? > > > > > > [1]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/rexima.1.html > > > > > > > > --- > jude > Adobe fiend for failing to Flash > > > > --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1209041818400.31...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no other output from: modprobe snd_pcm_oss so in order to get that working I will probably have to install alsa-oss. The oss drivers may be completely inappropriate for this card too.On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > Yes I have sound. rexima and aumix appear unable to locate any cards > > even with several different combinations of items parsed from the > > relevant lspci line. > > According to [1] (which probably applies), you might want to try > something like "rexima -d /dev/mixer". Parsing strings to rexima or > aumix that have been taken from the output of lspci probably isn't the > right thing to do. > > What exactly are you doing, and do you get any error messages? > > > [1]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/rexima.1.html > > > --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1209041754100.30...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
Jude, If "ls -al /dev/mixer" is not there, check that the package "oss-compat" is installed? If not sure post output of "apt-cache policy oss-compat" Hopefully this will fix it. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120904140215.GB592@tal
Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
Jude DaShiell writes: > Yes I have sound. rexima and aumix appear unable to locate any cards > even with several different combinations of items parsed from the > relevant lspci line. According to [1] (which probably applies), you might want to try something like "rexima -d /dev/mixer". Parsing strings to rexima or aumix that have been taken from the output of lspci probably isn't the right thing to do. What exactly are you doing, and do you get any error messages? [1]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/rexima.1.html -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehminjm9@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 06:23:20PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and yes it's the only > sound card installed. On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, lee wrote: If you're using ALSA, then you should probably be aware that /dev/mixer is not an ALSA device name. ALSA uses, say, /dev/snd/controlC0. If you want to use the deprecated OSS devices, you should ensure that ALSA's OSS-compatibility layer is loaded (modprobe snd_pcm_oss). > > > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > > > I ran both aumix -q and rexima and neither were able to find the sound > > > card. > > > > Is alsamixer able to find devices, or do some show up when you run > > "aplay -l" or "aplay -L"? Is this the only sound card installed? > > > > > > > > --- > jude > Adobe fiend for failing to Flash > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1209031822090.89...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg > signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
Yes I have sound. rexima and aumix appear unable to locate any cards even with several different combinations of items parsed from the relevant lspci line. On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and yes it's the only > > sound card installed. On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, lee wrote: > > Ok then the card is recognised and probably working. Do you have sound? > > In that case, I would think it's an issue with the programs you are > trying to use for a mixer. I don't know those since I just use > alsamixer; maybe you need to specify options to them. > > > --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1209040509440.4...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
Jude DaShiell writes: > Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and yes it's the only > sound card installed. On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, lee wrote: Ok then the card is recognised and probably working. Do you have sound? In that case, I would think it's an issue with the programs you are trying to use for a mixer. I don't know those since I just use alsamixer; maybe you need to specify options to them. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87harefa0o@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and yes it's the only sound card installed. On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, lee wrote: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > I ran both aumix -q and rexima and neither were able to find the sound > > card. > > Is alsamixer able to find devices, or do some show up when you run > "aplay -l" or "aplay -L"? Is this the only sound card installed? > > > --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1209031822090.89...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
Jude DaShiell writes: > I ran both aumix -q and rexima and neither were able to find the sound > card. Is alsamixer able to find devices, or do some show up when you run "aplay -l" or "aplay -L"? Is this the only sound card installed? -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87a9x7njk5@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:45:42 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Is it possible to create a /dev/mixer entry for this kind of sound card > that will enable rexima and/or aumix to find the sound card and control > the sound card? JFYI, according to Debian's rexima package "NEWS.gz" file, that shouldn't be a problem: *** * Changes in rexima 1.3 Now allows mixer device file to be specified, so you can work with something other than /dev/mixer. Thanks to Ivan Kalvatchev for (indirectly) suggesting this. *** Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k22kgn$vnl$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
I ran both aumix -q and rexima and neither were able to find the sound card. The sound card shows up using lspci, but I don't know what to parse out of it for an ln -s command or if a /dev/mixer device if created would even work in this circumstance. On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 08:45:42PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Is it possible to create a /dev/mixer entry for this kind of sound card > > that will enable rexima and/or aumix to find the sound card and control > > the sound card? > > Is the card being recognised? > > What are you trying to do? > What have you tried? > What didn't work? > > --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1209031033470.73...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 08:45:42PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Is it possible to create a /dev/mixer entry for this kind of sound card > that will enable rexima and/or aumix to find the sound card and control > the sound card? Is the card being recognised? What are you trying to do? What have you tried? What didn't work? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120903134036.GC27546@tal
nvidia CK804 sound card question
Is it possible to create a /dev/mixer entry for this kind of sound card that will enable rexima and/or aumix to find the sound card and control the sound card? --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1209022043120.53...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
Re: Re(2): No Sound Card found on Testing Install
* From: peasth...@shaw.ca * Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:19:05 -0800 > ... After updating the system and rebooting, Iceweasel produced no sound. ... On further testing, some videos yield sound, others do not. This report appears to be pertinent. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=585149 Regards,... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Telephone +13606390202. Bcc: peter at easthope.ca http://carnot.yi.org/ "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171057622.39651.30220@cantor.invalid
Re(2): No Sound Card found on Testing Install
This morning in accordance with the last paragraph in http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ I removed the line deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free from /etc/apt/sources.list . After updating the system and rebooting, Iceweasel produced no sound. According to http://www.opensrc.org/FAQ026, the following /etc/asound.conf should make the C-Media USB Headphone Set the default sound device. No such luck. Iceweasel still produces no sound. Either the audio data is sent to the SiS chip, which has no speaker, or something more obscure happens. In Twinkle, sound is fine as always. Pertinent information follows. Suggestions welcome. Thanks, ... Peter E. === "http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/07/msg00091.html"; From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 06:42:41 +0300 > Show us ... peter@dalton:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [SI7012 ]: ICH - SiS SI7012 SiS SI7012 with ALC655 at irq 18 1 [default]: USB-Audio - C-Media USB Audio Device C-Media USB Audio Deviceat usb-:00:0a.0-3, full speed 2 [default_1 ]: USB-Audio - C-Media USB Headphone Set C-Media USB Headphone Set at usb-:00:03.2-1, full speed peter@dalton:~$ lspci -nn | grep -i audio 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller [1039:7012] (rev a0) peter@dalton:~$ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: SI7012 [SiS SI7012], device 0: Intel ICH [SiS SI7012] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: default [C-Media USB Audio Device ], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: default_1 [C-Media USB Headphone Set ], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 peter@dalton:~$ aplay -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) front:CARD=SI7012,DEV=0 SiS SI7012, SiS SI7012 Front speakers surround40:CARD=SI7012,DEV=0 SiS SI7012, SiS SI7012 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=SI7012,DEV=0 SiS SI7012, SiS SI7012 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=SI7012,DEV=0 SiS SI7012, SiS SI7012 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=SI7012,DEV=0 SiS SI7012, SiS SI7012 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers iec958:CARD=SI7012,DEV=0 SiS SI7012, SiS SI7012 IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output front:CARD=default,DEV=0 C-Media USB Audio Device , USB Audio Front speakers surround40:CARD=default,DEV=0 C-Media USB Audio Device , USB Audio 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=default,DEV=0 C-Media USB Audio Device , USB Audio 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=default,DEV=0 C-Media USB Audio Device , USB Audio 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=default,DEV=0 C-Media USB Audio Device , USB Audio 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=default,DEV=0 C-Media USB Audio Device , USB Audio 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers iec958:CARD=default,DEV=0 C-Media USB Audio Device , USB Audio IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output front:CARD=default_1,DEV=0 C-Media USB Headphone Set , USB Audio Front speakers surround40:CARD=default_1,DEV=0 C-Media USB Headphone Set , USB Audio 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=default_1,DEV=0 C-Media USB Headphone Set , USB Audio 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=default_1,DEV=0 C-Media USB Headphone Set , USB Audio 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=default_1,DEV=0 C-Media USB Headphone Set , USB Audio 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=default_1,DEV=0 C-Media USB Headphone Set , USB Audio 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers iec958:CARD=default_1,DEV=0 C-Media USB Headphone Set , USB Audio IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output peter@dalton:~$ cat /etc/asound.conf pcm.!default { type hw card default_1 } ctl.!default { type hw card default_1 } peter@dalton:~$ lsmod | grep snd snd_usb_audio 50670 0 snd_usb_lib11192 1 snd_usb_audio snd_seq_midi3576 0 snd_intel8x0 19595 0 snd_seq_midi_event 3684 1 snd_seq_midi snd_ac97_codec 79152 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi12513 2 snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_midi ac97_bus 710 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_hwdep 4054 1 snd_usb_audio snd_pcm47222 3 snd_usb_audio,snd_intel8x0,
Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install - SOLVED
OK, this is embarrassing, but I have solved the problem. The system had a headphone plugged in that had fallen behind the system unnoticed (and I thought the sound from its one speaker was the motherboard speaker). Unplugged the item and all is well. Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/9e4a4b48-9e47-436a-b4d9-81efd61de...@googlegroups.com
Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install
On Ma, 10 iul 12, 13:09:19, ss11223 wrote: > > > > speaker-test -c2 only hisses for the left speaker. > > > > Only left, are you sure? It should alternate between left and right, so > > you might want to check your cables and speakers (and any volume/balance > > settings they might have). > > > > Kind regards, > > Andrei > > -- > > Remember, it is playing out of the chassis (motherboard) speaker, not the > audio connectors! My bad, I read "from" instead of "for" in your previous message. Anything interesting in your BIOS settings? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install
> > speaker-test -c2 only hisses for the left speaker. > > Only left, are you sure? It should alternate between left and right, so > you might want to check your cables and speakers (and any volume/balance > settings they might have). > > Kind regards, > Andrei > -- Remember, it is playing out of the chassis (motherboard) speaker, not the audio connectors! --Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/bb143c45-8a20-4207-8d80-f9a259fc4...@googlegroups.com
Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install
On Du, 08 iul 12, 12:42:11, ss11223 wrote: > Not sure what this is supposed to do. amixer gives: > > ajms@escort:~$ amixer > Simple mixer control 'Master',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined penum > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 65536 > Mono: > Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on] > Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on] > Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 > Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined penum > Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Capture 0 - 65536 > Front Left: Capture 29274 [45%] [off] > Front Right: Capture 29274 [45%] [off] Looks good. > speaker-test -c2 only hisses for the left speaker. Only left, are you sure? It should alternate between left and right, so you might want to check your cables and speakers (and any volume/balance settings they might have). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install
On Friday, July 6, 2012 5:00:01 AM UTC-4, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 03 iul 12, 14:25:21, ss11223 wrote: > > > > Ah, today /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start no longer complains of no sound > > card, but > > the sound still only comes out of the motherboard speaker. > > Play with your mixer settings while running > > speaker-test -c2 > > (you can stop it with Ctrl+C), or post the output o 'amixer'. > > Kind regards, > Andrei Not sure what this is supposed to do. amixer gives: ajms@escort:~$ amixer Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined penum Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 65536 Mono: Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on] Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on] Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined penum Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 65536 Front Left: Capture 29274 [45%] [off] Front Right: Capture 29274 [45%] [off] ajms@escort:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart speaker-test -c2 only hisses for the left speaker. The only mixer options I get is Master for built-in audio analog sterio Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/d618c86a-b3c5-4aa5-b229-58a1a9408...@googlegroups.com
Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install
On Ma, 03 iul 12, 14:25:21, ss11223 wrote: > > Ah, today /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start no longer complains of no sound card, > but > the sound still only comes out of the motherboard speaker. Play with your mixer settings while running speaker-test -c2 (you can stop it with Ctrl+C), or post the output o 'amixer'. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install
On Sunday, July 1, 2012 11:50:01 PM UTC-4, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 01 iul 12, 16:51:28, ss11223 wrote: > > I installed testing on an older machine with an Intel ICH9 controller on the > > mother board. Alsa reports that there is no audio card found. > > Show us :) > Please also include outputs of the following commands: > > aplay -l > aplay -L > cat /proc/asound/cards > lsmod | grep snd > lspci -nn | grep -i audio > > Kind regards, > Andrei > -- Ah, today /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start no longer complains of no sound card, but the sound still only comes out of the motherboard speaker. I get: ajms@escort:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop [ ok ] Shutting down ALSA...done. ajms@escort:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start [ ok ] Setting up ALSA...done. ajms@escort:~$ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ajms@escort:~$ aplay -L default Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server sysdefault:CARD=Intel HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog Default Audio Device front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog Front speakers surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Digital IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output ajms@escort:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0x9322 irq 47 ajms@escort:~$ lsmod | grep snd snd_hda_codec_idt 44792 1 snd_hda_intel 21856 2 snd_hda_codec 63477 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_idt snd_hwdep 12943 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm53390 2 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel snd_page_alloc 12867 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel snd_seq39487 0 snd_seq_device 13016 1 snd_seq snd_timer 22356 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd42691 12 snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_idt soundcore 12921 1 snd ajms@escort:~$ lspci -nn | grep -i audio 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 02) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ee7dcddf-46d1-4240-a713-78b898553...@googlegroups.com