Public bug reported: I have a logitech USB headset 250 and it's the only audio device on my system (onboard is totally disabled in bios) . It worked perfectly in Dapper LTS. Upon installing feisty it would no longer work. The problem seems to reside in Alsa and I confirmed it by installing edgy and updating alsa (which recreated the problem). I followed the workaround from https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/101920 to create an .asoundrc in my home folder. That fixed the audio but when I type alsamixer into a terminal I get: alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device and quite a few programs that use audio such as mplayer and acidrip will still fail to find the audio device and crash. The problem seems to be that alsa is pointing to a non-existent device for use as the default audio. ps: I have noticed a lot of other people having this problem but no available answer resolves it.
this is my .asoundrc: pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "combined" } pcm.combined { type asym playback.pcm "playback" capture.pcm "hw:1,0" } pcm.playback { type dmix ipc_key 1024 slave { pcm "hw:1,0" period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 4096 rate 44100 } bindings { 0 0 1 1 } } ctl.dmixer { type hw card 1 }pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "combined" } pcm.combined { type asym playback.pcm "playback" capture.pcm "hw:1,0" } pcm.playback { type dmix ipc_key 1024 slave { pcm "hw:1,0" period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 4096 rate 44100 } bindings { 0 0 1 1 } } ctl.dmixer { type hw card 1 } output from amixer: amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device however amixer -c1 returns: Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined cvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Capture channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 464 Capture 0 - 13 Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-41.00dB] [on] Capture 0 [0%] [16.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 44 Mono: Front Left: Playback 31 [70%] [-10.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 31 [70%] [-10.00dB] [on] output from cat /proc/asound/cards 1: [Headset ]: USB-Audio - Logitech USB Headset Logitech Logitech USB Headset at usb-0000:00:0a.0-1, full speed ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Logitech USB headset workaround failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113830 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs