Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-13 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, For the record, I had the exact same problem on a computer running buster that I don't use very often. For sure, it was working fine even with timidity installed a few months ago. Many thanks to Andrei for the 'lsof | grep /dev/snd' command that pointed us in the right direction! Debugging

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-12 Thread deloptes
riveravaldez wrote: > On 4/12/20, riveravaldez wrote: >> On 4/12/20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> On Sb, 11 apr 20, 21:02:39, riveravaldez wrote: Strangely, 'speaker-test -c2' doesn't produce a sound. But 'sudo speaker-test -c2' works flawlessly. (The idea to check that came from

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-12 Thread riveravaldez
On 4/12/20, riveravaldez wrote: > On 4/12/20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Sb, 11 apr 20, 21:02:39, riveravaldez wrote: >>> >>> Strangely, 'speaker-test -c2' doesn't produce a sound. But 'sudo >>> speaker-test -c2' works flawlessly. (The idea to check that came from >>> [1].) >> >> Some program

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:39:52, riveravaldez wrote: > > $ groups > thinkpad cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev Ok. > $ speaker-test -c2 [Still not sound.] And no error... > $ sudo speaker-test -c2 [Sounds OK.] That would indicate that sound is handled differently for the regular

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-12 Thread riveravaldez
On 4/12/20, deloptes wrote: > riveravaldez wrote: > >> But this not, even as sudo (and the error is similar to JACK one): >> $ aplay -vv -D front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav >> aplay: main:830: audio open error: Device or resource bussy > > aplay -vv -D plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-12 Thread riveravaldez
On 4/12/20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 11 apr 20, 21:02:39, riveravaldez wrote: >> >> Strangely, 'speaker-test -c2' doesn't produce a sound. But 'sudo >> speaker-test -c2' works flawlessly. (The idea to check that came from >> [1].) > > Any error message? Is your user a member of group

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-12 Thread deloptes
riveravaldez wrote: > But this not, even as sudo (and the error is similar to JACK one): > $ aplay -vv -D front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav > aplay: main:830: audio open error: Device or resource bussy aplay -vv -D plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav read

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 11 apr 20, 21:02:39, riveravaldez wrote: > > Strangely, 'speaker-test -c2' doesn't produce a sound. But 'sudo > speaker-test -c2' works flawlessly. (The idea to check that came from > [1].) Any error message? Is your user a member of group 'audio'? Some program might be blocking the

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-11 Thread riveravaldez
On 4/11/20, riveravaldez wrote: > On 4/11/20, riveravaldez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to know what's the proper way to solve this. I'm on an >> updated debian-testing installation (with pulseaudio installed and >> working, but the problem seems to be previous, i.e., in ALSA, because >>

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-11 Thread riveravaldez
On 4/11/20, riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know what's the proper way to solve this. I'm on an > updated debian-testing installation (with pulseaudio installed and > working, but the problem seems to be previous, i.e., in ALSA, because > pavucontrol doesn't show the soundcard in

Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-11 Thread riveravaldez
Hi, I would like to know what's the proper way to solve this. I'm on an updated debian-testing installation (with pulseaudio installed and working, but the problem seems to be previous, i.e., in ALSA, because pavucontrol doesn't show the soundcard in its correspondent tab). I can get audio from