On Monday 03 March 2008 18:12, Peter Toye wrote: > Nigel, > > Thanks for this. I've looked at the modules and the only one that's missing > is dialog. It seems that this is to make it easy to write scripts which put > up dialogue boxes, so I wouldn't have thought that aplay would give an > error message about not being able to find the default device if the > module's missing. Of course, error messages and their causes aren't always > correlated too well. > > /var/lib/alsa contains asound.state and nothing else. I've no idea > asound.state is meant to contain, so I'm attaching it (assuming that this > email system allows attachments) in case it's of use. It's a bit long to > include in the text. Ok. Nice to see you have an asound.state. When you installed Gutsy Gibbon, this asound.state file was created, and contains the default mixer settings for alsa, and usually the sounds are muted for the sake of your ears. I use KDE, so would then open a Konsole (CLI) , and type alsamixer as user, and can unmute controls, set slider levels, and so on. Same goes I presume, if you use Gnome. Now it has been suggested to me in the past if I can't get access to alsamixer, to remove/rename the asound.state file which may be faulty. I'd suggest renaming asound.state to something like asound.state.old, then reboot, and a new asound.state will be created, then, depending on which desktop you are using, open a terminal/konsole, and type alsamixer. Does alsamixer now open? > > I also have a USB sound card which I originally tried attaching - got a bit > further with it in that I was able to play but not record (which is what I > want to use it for). But then I removed it so as not to confuse things, and > reloaded Alsa to get a clean system. > > As a matter of interest, does anyone directly connected with the Alsa > project ever reply to queries here, or is it just users? The half-sighted > leading the blind as it were. Alsa developers do read the alsa-user postings, and regularly reply to users queries. I'm just a user, but try to help if I can. Just trying to help. Nigel. > > Best regards, > > Peter > mailto:alsa@xxxxxxxxx > www.ptoye.com > > ------------------------- > > Sunday, March 2, 2008, 5:43:32 PM, you wrote: > > On Sunday 02 March 2008 14:53, Peter Toye wrote: > >> James, > >> > >> Thanks for this. > >> > >> I am a member of the audio group, so problem there. The sound modules > >> seem to be loaded OK. > >> > >> The relevant bit of the output from lsmod is: > >> $ lsmod |grep snd > >> snd_emu10k1_synth 8192 0 > >> snd_emux_synth 35456 1 snd_emu10k1_synth > >> snd_seq_virmidi 8064 1 snd_emux_synth > >> snd_seq_midi_emul 7680 1 snd_emux_synth > >> snd_emu10k1 137248 2 snd_emu10k1_synth > >> snd_ac97_codec 100644 1 snd_emu10k1 > >> ac97_bus 3200 1 snd_ac97_codec > >> snd_pcm_oss 44672 0 > >> snd_mixer_oss 17664 1 snd_pcm_oss > >> snd_pcm 80388 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss > >> snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm > >> snd_util_mem 5760 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 > >> snd_hwdep 10244 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 > >> snd_seq_dummy 4740 0 > >> snd_seq_oss 33152 0 > >> snd_seq_midi 9600 0 > >> snd_rawmidi 25728 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi > >> snd_seq_midi_event 8448 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi > >> snd_seq 53232 9 > >> snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_o > >>ss, snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 24324 3 > >> snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm,snd_seq > >> snd_seq_device 9228 8 > >> snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,s > >>nd_ seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq snd 54660 15 > >> snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,sn > >>d_m > >> ixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd > >>_seq _device soundcore 8800 1 snd > >> $ > >> > >> So that looks OK. > >> > >> Peter > > > > Hi Peter. Your lsmod looks ok, and from your previous post > > /proc/asound/cards only shows one soundcard, so it's not like you have > > problems like I have, with also having a usb midi keyboard plugged in > > when booting. That said I know the workaround for that, so it's no > > problem for me. > > > > I have a bunch of distros installed, and have just booted up Kubuntu > > (Dapper, upgraded from Breezy). Which Ubuntu version are you using? > > > > I have an Audigy2 soundblaster (emu10k1) , so the card is more or less > > the same as yours. I can't remember if there were any problems with > > getting the sounds working though. I'm puzzled why you have no alsamixer, > > when trying to start it on the CLI. The 3 Alsa packages that should be > > installed are alsa-base, alsa-utils, and libasound2. Alsa-utils contains > > the alsamixer, amongst other stuff. > > > > I looked back through my history files to see what I installed post > > installing Kubuntu. The only 2 relevant packages are alsa-oss, and > > dialog, but I don't think alsamixer uses dialog to display itself. I > > think it uses ncurses. it may be worth a look to see if you have the > > dialog, and ncurses packages installed. For ncurses, the packages are > > "ncurses-base", and "ncurses-bin". > > > > Also have a look in /var/lib/alsa. The mixer settings are saved in a file > > named asound.state. The file should exist for alsamixer to display the > > settings. > > > > The commands alsactl restore, and alsactl store, are the ones to use to > > restore, and store mixer settings if the asound.state file exists > > in /var/lib/alsa > > > > Can't think of anything else to look for at the moment. > > > > Nigel. > > > > btw. From googling, a saw problems with sound on Gutsy Gibbon, but IIRC, > > they were to do with hda-intel based soundcards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
