Although sound was previously working fine, within the last couple of
days I have been unable to hear speaker or headphone sound from the
Linux Mint Debian Edition system on my desktop's hard drive. When I
attempted to display the asound directory I found it to be missing.
There is no problem hearing sound on the same desktop machine when I
boot from my Unetbootin-created USB Linux Mint Debian Edition. Also,
the copy of LMDE on the USB has its asound directory, as a
subdirectory under /Proc. I followed a link to run a script that
generated information relevant to the problem from the system where
the problem is. It was supposed to be uploaded to the Alsa Project.
However, problems creating an account at the Alsa Project site have
prevented me from requesting assistance from the Alsa Project, so I
have included that information at the very end of the postscript to
this email. I am now not so sure that pursuing this problem with the
Alsa Project would have been the right way to go in any event, since
I do use Pulseaudio. I hope that someone in the Pulseaudio Community
will be willing and able to help me.
Thank you,
Glenn Howard
p.s.
!!################################
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.62
!!################################
!!Script ran on: Wed Jan 1 16:30:07 UTC 2014
!!Linux Distribution
!!------------------
DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint DISTRIB_CODENAME=debian PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint
LMDE" NAME="Linux Mint LMDE" ID=linuxmint
!!DMI Information
!!---------------
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: OptiPlex GX520
Product Version:
Firmware Version: A05
!!Kernel Information
!!------------------
Kernel release: 3.10-2-486
Operating System: GNU/Linux
Architecture: i686
Processor: unknown
SMP Enabled: No
!!ALSA Version
!!------------
Driver version:
Library version:
Utilities version: 1.0.27.1
!!Loaded ALSA modules
!!-------------------
!!Sound Servers on this system
!!----------------------------
Pulseaudio:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio)
Running - Yes
Jack:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/jackd)
Running - No
!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
!!-----------------------------
!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
!!--------------------------------------
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7
Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
!!Advanced information - PCI Vendor/Device/Subsystem ID's
!!-------------------------------------------------------
00:1e.2 0401: 8086:27de (rev 01)
Subsystem: 1028:01ad
!!Modprobe options (Sound related)
!!--------------------------------
snd_pcsp: index=-2
snd_usb_audio: index=-2
snd_atiixp_modem: index=-2
snd_intel8x0m: index=-2
snd_via82xx_modem: index=-2
snd_hda_intel: model=generic
!!Loaded sound module options
!!---------------------------
!!ALSA Device nodes
!!-----------------
crw------T 1 root root 116, 1 Jan 1 15:35 /dev/snd/seq
crw------T 1 root root 116, 33 Jan 1 15:35 /dev/snd/timer
!!ALSA configuration files
!!------------------------
!!System wide config file (/etc/asound.conf)
pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
!!Aplay/Arecord output
!!--------------------
APLAY
aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...
ARECORD
arecord: device_list:268: no soundcards found...
!!Amixer output
!!-------------
!!Alsactl output
!!--------------
--startcollapse--
--endcollapse--
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!!------------------
Module
sha1_generic
ppp_mppe
ppp_async
ppp_generic
slhc
pci_stub
vboxpci
vboxnetadp
vboxnetflt
vboxdrv
speedstep_lib
cpufreq_conservative
cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_powersave
cpufreq_userspace
ppdev
lp
bnep
rfcomm
bluetooth
binfmt_misc
loop
fuse
dm_crypt
dm_mod
arc4
rt2800usb
rt2x00usb
rt2800lib
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mac80211
cfg80211
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rfkill
psmouse
parport_pc
i2c_i801
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of_i2c
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mbcache
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libcrc32c
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sg
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libphy
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uhci_hcd
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button
libata
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usbcore
usb_common
drm
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thermal_sys
!!ALSA/HDA dmesg
!!--------------
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