[arch-general] No sound (anymore)
Hello, Shortly after I last upgraded the alsa-firmware package, I realized that my system could not produce sound anymore. I certainly don't know if this has something to do with the certain upgrade or if it's related to something else that I can't think of at the moment. Is there anything I can do about this?
My creative sound card stopped working recently. Only 5.1 audio mode would work. My regular 7.1 was missing front and bass channels and 2.0 mode would not play any sound at all.
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 23:09 +0300, angelinheavysyrup wrote:
Hello,
Shortly after I last upgraded the alsa-firmware package, I realized that my system could not produce sound anymore. I certainly don't know if this has something to do with the certain upgrade or if it's related to something else that I can't think of at the moment.
Is there anything I can do about this?
First of all you could give information about your hardware and the version of ALSA that was ok and that is borked.
First of all you could give information about your hardware and the version of ALSA that was ok and that is borked.
I'm using ASUS p5kpl-am epu, no additional soundcards. This happened after I upgraded alsa-firmware to version 1.0.25-2 (from 1.0.25-1).
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 00:09:15 +0300, angelinheavysyrup wrote:
This happened after I upgraded alsa-firmware to version 1.0.25-2 (from 1.0.25-1). Did you try downgrading in order to confirm this being an issue with alsa-firmware? Was there anything else that got upgraded along with it?
As for troubleshooting, you can check 'lsmod | grep ^snd' to see if the sound modules are loaded. Also, 'cat /proc/asound/cards' shows which soundcards were detected. Are there any errors or warnings by alsa when playing a track with mplayer or another CLI audio player?
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 23:22 +0200, Wolfgang Mueller wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 00:09:15 +0300, angelinheavysyrup wrote:
This happened after I upgraded alsa-firmware to version 1.0.25-2 (from 1.0.25-1). Did you try downgrading in order to confirm this being an issue with alsa-firmware? Was there anything else that got upgraded along with it?
Two very good questions! When ever possible I'm using Linux as my DAW, most times when the DAW is borked, the cause isn't something related to ALSA versions. For example I once upgraded a Debian using GNOME 2 without pulseaudio, it didn't upgrade to a newer version of GNOME 2, but to GNOME 3 and forced to install pulseaudio. Pro-audio cards don't work when PA is activated. This is just a relatively unalarming example, since it's possible to get rid of PA, but there are very grotesque possibilities for what could happen. Dunno what's the different between 1.0.25-1 and 1.0.25-2, but it seems to be possible, that something else is the show-stopper, but ALSA firmware. - Ralf
On Thursday 14 Jun 2012 00:09:15 angelinheavysyrup wrote:
I'm using ASUS p5kpl-am epu, no additional soundcards. This happened after I upgraded alsa-firmware to version 1.0.25-2 (from 1.0.25-1).
For time being, you can downgrade the package. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrading_Packages -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html [1] http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/x86_64/alsa-firmware-1.0.25-1- x86_64.pkg.tar.xz [2]http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/i686/alsa-firmware-1.0.25-1- i686.pkg.tar.xz
Am Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:09:09 +0300
schrieb angelinheavysyrup
Is there anything I can do about this?
Do you get any messages from ALSA during boot? Have you tried to reset your ALSA settings in alsamixer? Sometimes it happens that ALSA changes some channel names or the like, which can be easily fixed by running alsamixer, and check and save the settings again. Sometimes it's just a matter of time (usually a few days) until it gets fixed automatically with the next kernel and/or ALSA update. And as Ralf mentioned, if you use PulseAudio, have you tried to disable it? Heiko
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 23:55 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote:
Have you tried to reset your ALSA settings in alsamixer?
Good point! I forget this, since I always need to load a mixer for my sound card, before I'm able to get sound. Fortunately the RME mixer I'm using has got a configuration file in /home/user that isn't touched by upgrades. - Ralf
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angelinheavysyrup
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Heiko Baums
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Jayesh Badwaik
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Jesse Jaara
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Ralf Mardorf
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Wolfgang Mueller