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Ok.

So yes, there are a few threads out there about sound failures in Fedora Core 5 etc.

But I do not believe they are directly the same problem I am having here.

 

Upon "SoundCard Detection" it says it is playing a sound, but I do not hear it.

It seems to have all the right info on the card, but to what end if no sound comes out?

If I say No I did not hear a sound, I recieve the following error.

Quote:Automatic detection of the sound card did not work. Audio will not be available on the system.You can inspect /root/scsound.log and file a new bug

at [/url][url=http://bugzilla.redhat.com]http://bugzilla.redhat.com.

 

Please click OK to continue.

 

that particular file says the following.

(see Figure: scsound.log)

 

Now the funny thing is, I tried using alsamixer, but to no result.

All the channels are at about 50%+ and none of them Muted.

To extent, the following commands, also do nothing to help me.

 

Quote:[kcraig@shieko sbin]$ alsaunmute 0 -vCard 0 Driver snd_hda_intel Volume 75%...

Unmuting ...

Play. Switch master(0) to 1

Play. Volume master(0) to 23

Play. Switch master(1) to 1

Play. Volume master(1) to 23

Play. Volume pcm(0) to 191

Play. Volume pcm(1) to 191

Unmuting snd_hda_intel...

[kcraig@shieko sbin]$

and....

Quote:[kcraig@shieko sbin]$ ./alsactl power 0Power state for card #0 is D0

Which DO to my knowledge means online, no power state.

And I know this works under windows XP.

 

HOWEVER, using the alsactl power command, I noticed something.

The command alsactl power on should result in a power change, but instead, I get this.

Quote:[kcraig@shieko sbin]$ ./alsactl power on./alsactl: set_power:117: snd_ctl_set_power_state error: Protocol not available

 

*sigh.

Can anyone throw me a bone here?

I mean, I could swear that at one point while running Windows XP and throwing in KNOPPIX DVD, that the volume worked.

BUT, if I had the volume at say 10% on windows, then booted knoppix, it would stay at 10% no matter what, mute or not.

And I can swear, don't hold me to it, that I once had FC4 installed on this laptop when the sound didnt work, I then installed Windows, turned my sound to abotu 50% and then booted linux and it worked at 50% only.

 

Unfortunately, I cannot load windows back onto this laptop, as

a. no room

b. irreplaceable time and effort into customization.

 

Hopefully someone here understands me or had this porblem.

any Ideas?

 

--Kelly Criag

 

 

 

*figure: scsound.log*

Quote:------- System Config Soundcard --------Tue May 16 19:11:33 MDT 2006

 

------- lspci --------

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)

02:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832

02:01.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)

02:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)

02:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)

02:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)

02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter (rev 05)

 

------- lsmod --------

Module Size Used by

i915 18497 1

drm 63701 2 i915

autofs4 19013 1

i2c_dev 8773 0

i2c_core 20673 1 i2c_dev

hidp 15937 2

rfcomm 34517 0

l2cap 23617 10 hidp,rfcomm

sunrpc 136573 1

dm_mirror 19985 0

dm_mod 50905 1 dm_mirror

video 14917 0

button 6609 0

battery 9285 1

ac 4933 0

ipv6 225697 14

lp 12297 0

parport_pc 25445 0

parport 34313 2 lp,parport_pc

nvram 8393 0

hci_usb 15957 2

bluetooth 44069 8 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap,hci_usb

joydev 9473 0

ohci1394 31749 0

ieee1394 288665 1 ohci1394

ehci_hcd 29005 0

ipw2200 95633 0

ieee80211 28681 1 ipw2200

ieee80211_crypt 6081 1 ieee80211

sg 32349 0

uhci_hcd 28881 0

b44 23245 0

mii 5313 1 b44

snd_hda_intel 17233 1

snd_hda_codec 112065 1 snd_hda_intel

snd_seq_dummy 3781 0

snd_seq_oss 28993 0

snd_seq_midi_event 7105 1 snd_seq_oss

snd_seq 47153 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event

snd_seq_device 8909 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq

snd_pcm_oss 45009 0

snd_mixer_oss 16449 1 snd_pcm_oss

snd_pcm 76869 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss

snd_timer 22597 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm

snd 50501 11 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_m

xer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer

soundcore 9377 1 snd

snd_page_alloc 10441 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

ahci 12613 0

ext3 116169 2

jbd 52693 1 ext3

ata_piix 9925 3

libata 53969 2 ahci,ata_piix

sd_mod 16449 4

scsi_mod 124649 4 sg,ahci,libata,sd_mod

 

------- /etc/modprobe.conf --------

alias eth0 b44

alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix

alias eth1 eepro100

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

options snd-card-0 index=0

options snd-hda-intel index=0

remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel

alias char-major-10-250 sonypi

options sonypi minor=250

 

------- /etc/asound.conf --------

#Generated by system-config-soundcard, do not edit by hand

#HWCONF

#DEV 1

pcm.!default { type hw card 0 device 1 }

ctl.!default { type hw card 0 }

 

------- aplay -l --------

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [sTAC92xx Analog]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [sTAC92xx Digital]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

 

------- amixer --------

Simple mixer control 'Master',0

Capabilities: pvolume pswitch

Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right

Limits: Playback 0 - 31

Mono:

Front Left: Playback 18 [58%] [on]

Front Right: Playback 18 [58%] [on]

Simple mixer control 'PCM',0

Capabilities: pvolume

Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right

Limits: Playback 0 - 255

Mono:

Front Left: Playback 153 [60%]

Front Right: Playback 153 [60%]

Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0

Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined

Playback channels: Mono

Mono: Playback [on]

Simple mixer control 'Capture',0

Capabilities: cvolume cswitch

Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right

Limits: Capture 0 - 15

Front Left: Capture 10 [67%] [on]

Front Right: Capture 10 [67%] [on]

Simple mixer control 'Capture Mux',0

Capabilities: volume

Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right

Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right

Limits: 0 - 4

Front Left: 2 [50%]

Front Right: 2 [50%]

Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0

Capabilities: enum

Items: 'Mic' 'Line'

Item0: 'Mic'

 

------- /proc/asound/version --------

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.11rc2 (Wed Jan 04 08:57:20 2006 UTC).

 

------- rpm -q alsa-lib --------

alsa-lib-1.0.11-3.rc2.2

 

------- rpm -q alsa-utils --------

alsa-utils-1.0.11-4.rc2

 

------- /proc/asound/modules --------

0 snd_hda_intel

 

------- /proc/asound/pcm --------

00-01: STAC92xx Digital : STAC92xx Digital : playback 1

00-00: STAC92xx Analog : STAC92xx Analog : playback 1 : capture 2

 

------- system-config-soundcard --------

 

/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:273: DeprecationWarning: use gtk.ComboBox

self.primarySubDeviceOptionMenu = gtk.OptionMenu()

/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:308: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.timeout_add is deprecated, use gobject.timeout_add instead

self.timer = gtk.timeout_add (100, self.checkStatus, self)

/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:548: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.TRUE is deprecated, use True instead

gtk.main()

Playing WAVE '/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo

KellyCraig,

 

I have exactly the same problem. I'm now using fedora core 5 on laptop ASUS M9V, which is equipped with sound card as yours. Since your post is May 17, I don't know if you have already solved this problem or not. But, if you did solve it, could you please tell me how you did that? ^^ Thanks in advance

if it says it's playign then it is very unlike;y to be a hardware problem.

 

the most common problem is usually configurations. aka. the sound is actually turned down.

 

you might wanna invoke a sound mixer or if you have alsa(-utils) installed...

 

you could try my method, i put this in my boto script.

 

you might find this at /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/something.local but i'm sure it iwll work from anyone of teh scripts in teh rc.d folder....

 

 

or you can simply run it as a normal script..

 

the code below is what i use at boot

################################

####set volume to 99 percent####

amixer set Master 99 unmute >/dev/null 2>&1

####set the pcm/wav/noise value to 25### seems ok... you can lower or increase these as you wish... #####

amixer set PCM 25 unmute >/dev/null 2>&1

alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1

####################################

 

 

as i said this is teh most common failt..as people tend to forget, or not know that teh sound is zeroed by default.. another place to check is also teh bios settigns to make sure teh card output isn't disbled there.. it's a long shot but hope it help...

:-)

Can someone please give the answer to this one? I have the same problem where my sound card is detected, but no sound is being played. Alsa is already unmuted on both channels, and the link to the 'solution' loads the page below.

 

 

 

Thanks!

make sure to open alsamixer in a console

 

and scroll left and right (you may have to scroll very far rights depening on the sound card) and verify that all options are unmuted.

 

to UNmute an audio output, press M once. Press it again to MUTE.

 

try this to see does it solve your problem (while playing some music so you know it makes a difference while pressing M)

 

cheers

anyweb

Quote:make sure to open alsamixer in a console 

and scroll left and right (you may have to scroll very far rights depening on the sound card) and verify that all options are unmuted.

 

to UNmute an audio output, press M once. Press it again to MUTE.

 

try this to see does it solve your problem (while playing some music so you know it makes a difference while pressing M)

 

cheers

anyweb

 

Tried it, but it still doesn't work. I don't get any error messages or anything, it just doesn't play. The strange thing is that I cant scroll for some reason, its always on PCM. And Kaffeine always shows the sound as muted regardless of the state of the system speaker or alsamixer.

Quote:<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentcommentid="10188" data-ipsquote-username="anyweb" data-cite="anyweb" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="2298" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>make sure to open alsamixer in a console 

and scroll left and right (you may have to scroll very far rights depening on the sound card) and verify that all options are unmuted.

 

to UNmute an audio output, press M once. Press it again to MUTE.

 

try this to see does it solve your problem (while playing some music so you know it makes a difference while pressing M)

 

cheers

anyweb

 

Tried it, but it still doesn't work. I don't get any error messages or anything, it just doesn't play. The strange thing is that I cant scroll for some reason, its always on PCM. And Kaffeine always shows the sound as muted regardless of the state of the system speaker or alsamixer.



</div></blockquote>
 

 

No fix for this? I've been googling like crazy and seeing lots of people having issues like this but no one ever posts the fix. I'm having a similar issue in Ubuntu 9.04, reloading the Ubuntu desktop packages fixed it briefly and then an update killed it. I'm alternating between the mixer saying the Pulseaudio Output Null and actually having the driver loaded w/ still no sound when stuff is playing.

I'm installing 9.10 Beta to see if maybe it'll help. Anyone else have any suggestions? I'm a total Linux noob and this is frustrating me enough to reload XP as much as I don't want to.