Public bug reported:
I've installed a 64bit 8.10 (amd64 architecture) on a Dell Optiplex 330.
Things are mostly working, but I cannot get sound to work. Nothing that
should emit sound from the speakers I have plugged in will do so. (Yes,
the speakers are plugged in and turned on.)
The volume control icon has a red X next to it. Right clicking on it
and selecting open volume control gets the message:
No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found. (Actually,
there's a longer version of that message that shows up the first time
you do this after starting X, but I don't have that handy and will need
to hit submit on this first. If that message is needed I will attach it
here later. Just ask.)
Trying to track this down, I chased a number of trouble shooting pages
on the net and on your site. They all broke down and failed to help me
figure out what the problem was. The best I can do is gather the
information I was digging up in them and give it to you here.
I ran lspci -v and found the following audio device info:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition
Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0220
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at dfdfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
Something I read said this might be useful to someone too:
$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel 489264 0
snd_pcm_oss 52608 0
snd_mixer_oss 25088 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 99208 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 11524 0
snd_seq_oss 42368 0
snd_seq_midi 15872 0
snd_rawmidi 34176 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 16768 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 67168 6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 34320 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 16404 5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 79432 9
snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 16800 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 17680 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
Additionally, when I bring up gnome-sound-properties and attempt to test
the sound listed under "Sound Playback" - as recommended by this page
(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting) I get various
error messages, depending on what I select in the pulldown. Those
messages are:
Selection: HDA Intel AD198x Digital (ALSA)
sound-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'audiotestsrc wave=sine
freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink': Could not open audio
device for playback. [gstalsasink.c(692): gst_alsasink_open ():
/GstBin:bin0/GstHalAudioSink:halaudiosink0/GstBin:bin1/GstAlsaSink:alsasink0:
Playback open error on device 'plughw:0,1': No such file or directory]
Selection: HDA Intel AD198x Analog (ALSA)
sound-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'audiotestsrc wave=sine
freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink': Could not open audio
device for playback. [gstalsasink.c(692): gst_alsasink_open ():
/GstBin:bin2/GstHalAudioSink:halaudiosink1/GstBin:bin3/GstAlsaSink:alsasink1:
Playback open error on device 'default:0': Invalid argument]
Selection: HDA Intel AD198x Analog (OSS)
sound-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'audiotestsrc wave=sine
freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink': Could not open audio
device for playback.You don't have permission to open the device.
[gstosssink.c(423): gst_oss_sink_open ():
/GstBin:bin4/GstHalAudioSink:halaudiosink2/GstBin:bin5/GstOssSink:osssink0:
system error: Permission denied]
(Note: there are two other flavors of the above in the choices. The only
difference in the output is I see "osssink1" or "osssink2" in the error
message, near the end when they are tested.)
Selection: ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
sound-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'audiotestsrc wave=sine
freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink': Could not get/set
settings from/on resource. [gstalsasink.c(523): set_hwparams ():
/GstPipeline:pipeline5/GstGConfAudioSink:gconfaudiosink5/GstBin:bin10/GstAlsaSink:alsasink2:
Unable to set hw params for playback: Input/output error]
Selection: OSS - Open Sound System
sound-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'audiotestsrc wave=sine
freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink': Could not open audio
device for playback.You don't have permission to open the device.
[gstosssink.c(423): gst_oss_sink_open (): /GstBin:bin11/GstOssSink:osssink3:
system error: Permission denied]
Selection: PulseAudio Sound Server
sound-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'audiotestsrc wave=sine
freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink': Failed to connect
stream: Invalid argument [pulsesink.c(634): gst_pulsesink_prepare ():
/GstPipeline:pipeline7/GstGConfAudioSink:gconfaudiosink7/GstBin:bin12/GstPulseSink:pulsesink0]
(NOTE: this test hangs gnome-sound-properties, requiring a kill from the
command line)
Finally, the Autodetect setting results in the same hang in
gnome-sound-properties and gives me this message:
sound-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'audiotestsrc wave=sine
freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink': Failed to connect
stream: Invalid argument [pulsesink.c(634): gst_pulsesink_prepare ():
/GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstGConfAudioSink:gconfaudiosink0/GstBin:bin0/GstAutoAudioSink:autoaudiosink0/GstPulseSink:autoaudiosink0-actual-sink-pulse]
The notes ask for the Unbunto version this way:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
At this point I honestly have no idea what package is failing to detect
the sound card.
That's all I know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
--jeffp
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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8.10 not autodetecting my sound card
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312601
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