ALSA Users, I've come here to this list because my situation seems to be beyond the help of the Ubuntu Users list and my local Linux user's group. I've got a Kenwood USB audio device, which, to my amazement, was automatically detected and worked great with my first install of Ubuntu. That was about a year and a half ago and the Ubuntu version was Dapper. There was sometimes a little confusion between the motherboard's onboard sound card and the USB device. But Recently, a friend gave me an older computer, a decent Pentium 4 that I thought I would convert into a MythTV box. It would be great, I thought, to use my Kenwood USB audio and have full digital sound. But this time, when I installed Fiesty, things don't work very well. The Kenwood USB device seems to be detected. But there's just no sound. When I type in "alsamixer", it says: Card: Kenwood Audio Device Chip: USB Mixer View: [Playback] The PCM levels are unmuted, and maxed up to the top of the volume bars. But no matter what I do, I hear no sound. I've double checked the cables are plugged in. All other USB devices are working on this computer, and the Kenwood works on the original computer. But I don't get the login or logout music, nor do I get any sound when playing any audio or video files. I've checked out this web page for trouble shooting: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting And I've tried to follow its instructions. I wiped out and reinstalled the whole ALSA base drivers. I've checked that "modinfo soundcore" returns results. aplay -l lists the Kenwood audio device (*1). However, lspci -v seems to only list the motherboard's onboard audio (*2). Lastly, when I go to "Preferences->Sound Preferences", and I select "USB Audio" under "Sound Playback", I get this error: audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Resource busy or not available. I'm confused as to why this worked so smoothly before, and so poorly now. More importantly, is there anything else I can do to diagnose this problem and fix it? Thank you for any advice or help. Here is the detailed output of what I referenced above: (*1) **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel 82801DB-ICH4] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 - IEC958] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: Device [Kenwood Audio Device], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 (*2) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. 845PE Max (MS-6580) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21 I/O ports at e000 [size=256] I/O ports at dc00 [size=64] Memory at dffffe00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Memory at dffffd00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: <access denied> -- Dave M G Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Kernel 2.6.20-15-generic Pentium D Dual Core Processor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
