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Sound doesn't appear to be working

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• Started 6 years ago by plumtreed
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   plumtreed
   

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   I'm not a heavy user of audio so was surprised that it wasn't there when I needed it. I searched for recent forum discussion and followed some of the suggestions but I am still silent.
   I am using Slitaz 'recent nightly' on an Acer Aspire5315 upgraded with ram and SSD but no mods to the sound card. I get sound OK with other linux OS on same machine.

   I also use Slitaz on an eeePC701 and can't get sound on it either........I've been using Slitaz in one form or another for about 10 years and I'm sure the sound was there, out of the box, for most of that time.

   Is this a recent problem and can someone point me in the right direction to fix it.

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   plumtreed
   

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   Using a year old response by mojo to a similar problem, I verified that my system included the file snd-cmipci and modified file /etc/rcS.conf to include it in the LOAD_MODULES line but while it showed during boot process, the sound doesn't work.

   Anybody able to help

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   kultex
   

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   its hard to tell without infos....

   http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/having-sound-issues#post-43296

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   plumtreed
   

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   Here are the results......hope this offers a solution

   aplay -l
   **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
   card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog]
     Subdevices: 1/1
     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   
   aplay -L
   null
       Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
   sysdefault:CARD=Intel
       HDA Intel, ALC268 Analog
       Default Audio Device
   front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
       HDA Intel, ALC268 Analog
       Front speakers
   surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
       HDA Intel, ALC268 Analog
       4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
   surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
       HDA Intel, ALC268 Analog
       4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
   surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
       HDA Intel, ALC268 Analog
       5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
   surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
       HDA Intel, ALC268 Analog
       5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
   surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
       HDA Intel, ALC268 Analog
       7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
   
   lsmod | grep snd
   snd_hda_codec_realtek   134743  1
   snd_hda_intel          17009  1
   snd_hda_codec          45588  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
   snd_cmipci             21762  0
   gameport                5188  1 snd_cmipci
   snd_mpu401_uart         3899  1 snd_cmipci
   snd_opl3_lib            5718  1 snd_cmipci
   snd_hwdep               3811  2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_hda_codec
   snd_rawmidi            12516  1 snd_mpu401_uart
   snd_seq_device          3472  2 snd_rawmidi,snd_opl3_lib
   snd_pcm                42938  3 snd_cmipci,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
   snd_page_alloc          4669  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
   snd_timer              12641  2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
   snd                    33710  13 snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_rawmidi,snd_hwdep,snd_opl3_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_cmipci,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
   soundcore               3254  1 snd
   
   ls -la /proc/asound
   total 0
   dr-xr-xr-x    5 root     root             0 Feb  1 20:16 .
   dr-xr-xr-x   98 root     root             0 Feb  1 20:05 ..
   lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             5 Feb  1 20:16 Intel -> card0
   dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Feb  1 20:16 card0
   -r--r--r--    1 root     root             0 Feb  1 20:16 cards
   -r--r--r--    1 root     root             0 Feb  1 20:16 devices
   -r--r--r--    1 root     root             0 Feb  1 20:16 hwdep
   -r--r--r--    1 root     root             0 Feb  1 20:16 modules
   dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Feb  1 20:16 oss
   -r--r--r--    1 root     root             0 Feb  1 20:16 pcm
   dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Feb  1 20:16 seq
   -r--r--r--    1 root     root             0 Feb  1 20:16 timers
   -r--r--r--    1 root     root             0 Feb  1 20:16 version

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   Aleksej
   

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   Hi there,

   Just for the record my outputs are:

   $ aplay -l
   
   **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
   card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog]
     Subdevices: 0/1
     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   
   $ aplay -L
   
   null
       Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
   pulse
       PulseAudio Sound Server
   sysdefault:CARD=Intel
       HDA Intel, ALC268 Analog
       Default Audio Device
   front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
       HDA Intel, ALC268 Analog
       Front speakers
   surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
       HDA Intel, ALC268 Analog
       4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
   surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
       HDA Intel, ALC268 Analog
       4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
   surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
       HDA Intel, ALC268 Analog
       5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
   surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
       HDA Intel, ALC268 Analog
       5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
   surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
       HDA Intel, ALC268 Analog
       7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
   
   $ lsmod | grep snd
   
   snd_hda_codec_realtek   182475  1
   snd_hda_intel          20677  5
   snd_hda_codec          56369  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
   snd_hwdep               5117  1 snd_hda_codec
   snd_pcm                57282  3 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
   snd_page_alloc          5929  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
   snd_timer              16375  2 snd_pcm
   snd                    47916  14 snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
   soundcore               4449  1 snd
   
   $ ls -la /proc/asound
   
   total 0
   dr-xr-xr-x    5 root     root             0 Feb  1 19:36 .
   drwxr-xr-x  147 root     root             0 Jan 17 18:32 ..
   dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Feb  1 19:36 card0
   -r--r--r--    1 root     root             0 Feb  1 19:36 cards
   -r--r--r--    1 root     root             0 Feb  1 19:36 devices
   -r--r--r--    1 root     root             0 Feb  1 19:36 hwdep
   lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             5 Feb  1 19:36 Intel -> card0
   -r--r--r--    1 root     root             0 Feb  1 19:36 modules
   dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Feb  1 19:36 oss
   -r--r--r--    1 root     root             0 Feb  1 19:36 pcm
   dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Feb  1 19:36 seq
   -r--r--r--    1 root     root             0 Feb  1 19:36 timers
   -r--r--r--    1 root     root             0 Feb  1 19:36 version

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   plumtreed
   

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   Hi Aleksej, ...thank you and just confirming that your saying your 'sound' is OK?

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   Aleksej
   

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   Hi Ken,

   your 'sound' is OK?

   Well, not completely.

   Two systems are struggling with each other: ALSA and PulseAudio.
   I can listen to music using Audacious. But when I use Firefox to watch Youtube (it required PulseAudio) or to listen SoundCloud I should reload the sound system. I use the simple homemade script for it (I'll share it at the end). And when Audacious is running, it does not matter it play or idle, I cannot listen Firefox. And I should shut down Firefox when I want to play some music in the LMMS. Looks like the hell, but I'm used to it :-D

   Moreover, I wanted to manually switch Headphones / Loudspeakers in the pavucontrol. Fortunately, it switched automatically in the SliTaz Next ;-)

   And the script to reload the sound system used to fix ALSA / PulseAudio struggle (sometimes you need to run it multiple times; I keep it on my Desktop):
   

   #!/bin/sh
   killall pulseaudio
   alsactl kill quit
   alsactl init
   pulseaudio &

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   plumtreed
   

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   Thanks Mate, I can see what you mean.....a bit of a 'work-around'.....I'll see what happens.

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   plumtreed
   

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   Hey, thanks again, I now get sound on one PC so I guess each source is going to need work to get it going.

   .....I appreciate your help.

   Posted 6 years ago #

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