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Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (s1mple) — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:28:49 +0000

options snd_hda_intel index=1

The good old game of random sound card musical chairs

Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (aitor) — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:10:04 +0000

Another possible solution:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1400034 … 404-rugged

Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (aitor) — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:02:24 +0000

Charon795 wrote:

I am using laptop inspition7537
It has the following audio controllers:
Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller and 8 Series HD Audio Controller

This is an Intel Corporation audio device. What is the output of the lspci command? In my computer:

# lspci -knn | grep -iA2 audio
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1d20] (rev 05)
	DeviceName:  Onboard Audio
	Subsystem: Dell C600/X79 series chipset High Definition Audio Controller [1028:0496]
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
--
03:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0e09] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0780]
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

Do you have the same kernel driver in use? If so, try creating a file called /etc/modprobe.d/default.conf with this content:

options snd_hda_intel index=1

Then reboot. It worked for me.

Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (aluma) — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:43:38 +0000

I'm not an alsa guru, just my understanding of the situation.
In the file /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf there are lines

  defaults.ctl.card 0
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0

Therefore, if there is only one sound card, then the /etc/asound.conf file is not needed to select it.
The sound on my desktop with one card works without this file.

The netbook has two audio devices - HDMI and the actual sound card. Hdmi is defined as the first device, so to output sound to a speaker or headphones you need this same selection file /etc/asound.conf.

Here we can add that due to the flexibility of alsa settings in different wiki there are different tips, including placing the contents of the selection file (/etc/asound.conf) in the home directory under the name /.asoundrc.
This will work if all other settings in /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf are are suitable for the specific case.

Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:53:02 +0000

This is what worked for me when I ran my pure ALSA system, .asoundrc:

pcm.!default {
        type hw
        card 1
 }

ctl.!default {
        type hw
        card 1
 }

Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:13:26 +0000

Just for the wider audience: it' not a good idea to redefine the "hw" PCM. (If it works for you then you should keep it)

The most common way to set the default card is by an ~/.asoundrc or ~/.config/alsa/asoundrc with content

defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.ctl.card 1

Of course, that applies for that user only. A system-wide setting would be to add the same in /etc/asound.conf (or any of the other places that ALSA configuration loader looks in).

Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (aluma) — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 12:56:47 +0000

aitor wrote:

Does amixer-gtk work with plughw, or are you using qasmixer instead? The ALSA amixer command doesn't work in my computer with this device:
$ amixer -D plughw
ALSA lib control.c:1528:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL plughw
amixer: Mixer attach plughw error: No such file or directory

I use TDE DE, so there is kmix. We have our own arts sound server.
Just ran the command

aplay -D plughw:1,0 Noise.wav

And everything worked.
Before that, I added the /etc/asound.conf file and edited the files in my home directory. Their content is in the post above.

Edit. Essentially kmix-GUI amixer if arts works through alsa.

Edit. Using the same method, I returned sound without pulseaudio on my desktop with Audigy2.

Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 11:10:37 +0000

I guess you mistakenly copied his ".asoundrc" and replaced "hw" with "plughw"... that's not what to do.
Rather you should use my (last) suggested ".asoundrc" to make sure the right card is selected for audio output. Then use "aplay -D plughw ..." for playing, because that PCM has audio format translations to map any input format into the format "hw" needs. ("plughw" channels audio to/from "hw" as its slave PCM)

EDIT: I'm not good at guessing and confused myself about "amixer" vs "aplay". There is no "plughw" CTL, and one would rather use amixer with the "hw" CTL. I.e., playback to "plughw" with mixer controls for "hw"

Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (aitor) — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:15:01 +0000

aluma wrote:

ralph.ronnquist wrote:
You'd probably be better off playing on "plughw" rather than "hw" as it includes audio format translations...
Thank you very much, you are right!
I take my words back.
"plughw" works, after this command the sound from alsa started working.
Regards.

Does amixer-gtk work with plughw, or are you using qasmixer instead? The ALSA amixer command doesn't work in my computer with this device:

$ amixer -D plughw
ALSA lib control.c:1528:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL plughw
amixer: Mixer attach plughw error: No such file or directory

Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (aluma) — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 09:09:41 +0000

ralph.ronnquist wrote:

You'd probably be better off playing on "plughw" rather than "hw" as it includes audio format translations...

Thank you very much, you are right!
I take my words back.
"plughw" works, after this command the sound from alsa started working.

Regards.

Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 08:08:26 +0000

You'd probably be better off playing on "plughw" rather than "hw" as it includes audio format translations.

But, when the card selection is done, the next is to look at the amixer settings.

Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (aluma) — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 07:04:18 +0000

Maybe I'm wrong, but in my opinion it's not a matter of settings.

The desktop with Audigy2 under Chimaera worked with alsa out of the box, but after updating to Daedalus it stopped.

And this is a netbook with Daedalus

root@AA:/etc# cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Generic        ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
                      HD-Audio Generic at 0xf0244000 irq 27
 1 [SB             ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
                      HDA ATI SB at 0xf0240000 irq 16

uly_e@AA:~$ cat /etc/asound.conf
defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.ctl.card 1

@AA:~$ aplay -D hw:1,0 Noise.wav
Playing WAVE 'Noise.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
aplay: set_params:1358: Channels count non available
 
uly_e@AA:~$ cat ./.alsactl.conf
#
# ALSA library configuration file for alsactl tool
# (/usr/share/alsa tree is not necessary for alsactl)
#

ctl.hw {
        @args [ CARD ]
        @args.CARD {
                type string
                default "1"
        }
        type hw
        card $CARD
}

uly_e@AA:~$ cat ./.asoundrc
pcm.!default {
  type hw
  card 1
             }

ctl.!default {
   type hw
  card 1
             }

Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (aitor) — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 20:55:22 +0000

When amixer-gtk is launched without arguments, i.e. without specifying the audio device, it'll try to auto-detect the one capable for playback streaming via snd_pcm_open (...) that creates a handle and opens a connection to the audio interface. The selected card is printed in the command output together with the mixer controls. However, you can also specify the card in the command line if you wish. For example:

$ amixer-gtk --card 0 --systray
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
Simple mixer control 'Speaker+LO',0
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic Boost',0
Simple mixer control 'Line Out',0
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
Simple mixer control 'Loopback Mixing',0
Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic',0
Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic Boost',0
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-65.25dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback [on]
  Front Right: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker+LO',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Line Out',0
  Capabilities: pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback [on]
  Front Right: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 31
  Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-16.50dB] [off]
  Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-16.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Disabled' 'Speaker Only' 'Line Out+Speaker'
  Item0: 'Line Out+Speaker'
Simple mixer control 'Loopback Mixing',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
  Item0: 'Disabled'
Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]

Device: hw:0
'Master',0
'Headphone',0
'Speaker',0
'Speaker+LO',0
'PCM',0
'Front Mic',0
'Front Mic Boost',0
'Line Out',0
'Beep',0
'Capture',0
'Auto-Mute Mode',0
'Loopback Mixing',0
'Rear Mic',0
'Rear Mic Boost',0
(...)

Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 20:33:42 +0000

I was wrong and too sloppy to actually test my suggestion.
It should really say

defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.ctl.card 1

There is the tool qasconfig that presents the raw current ALSA configuration. I find it somewhat useful on occation (even if I don't fully understand it), but it in particular tells the configuration effect of changes to ~/.asoundrc.

EDIT: corrected to say qasconfig as it should have been.

Re: no sound on gnuinos

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:11:20 +0000

@Charin795 . . . done. You could probably have edited the post yourself . . .