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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:27 pm    Post subject: ALSA default soundcard issues Reply with quote

Hey, for some reason, when I booted up my computer this morning to listen to music on pianobar I heard nothing. So, I made a /etc/scound.conf file - that fixed the sound for pianobar. However, when I try listening to music on youtube, I get nothing. Also, whenever I go into the alsamixer, my default soundcard is still shown as some USB crap -- instead of the regular SB Intel chipset.

Of note: before I shutdown last night, I did a depclean.

Here is my /etc/asound.conf
Code:

pcm.!default {
    type hw
    card 0
}
ctl.!default {
    type hw           
    card 0
}

Here is the output of /proc/asound/cards
Code:

 0 [SB             ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
                      HDA ATI SB at 0xfeb00000 irq 16
 1 [AK5370         ]: USB-Audio - AK5370
                      AKM AK5370 at usb-0000:04:00.0-1, full speed
 2 [HDMI           ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
                      HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfea60000 irq 89
 3 [HDMI_1         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
                      HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfe760000 irq 90


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Duncan
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can try to fix the cards order by putting in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf the line
Code:
options snd-hda-intel index=0,2,3
options snd-usb-audio index=1

and restart the computer or unload and load again the snd-hda-intel and snd-usb-audio modules. It should change nothing because the order of the sounds playbacks cards is already to HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB as the zero default one.

Note that you have to close and open again the browser for Flash to use the new asound.conf configuration.

You can try my /etc/asound.conf
Code:
pcm.!default {
   type plug
   slave.pcm "dmixer"
}

pcm.dmixer  {
    type dmix
    ipc_key 1024
    slave {
      channels 6
      buffer_size 8192
      buffer_time 0
      pcm "hw:0,0"
      period_size 2048
      period_time 0
      rate 48000
   }
   bindings {
      0 0
      1 1
   }
}

ctl.dmixer {
   type hw
   card 0
}

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sadly, neither of those helped me. Any other ideas or suggestions?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you have the good audio codecs compiled for your sound card in the kernel? : /Devices Drivers/Sound card support/Advanced Linux Sound Architecture/PCI sound devices/Intel HD Audio/
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Logicien, your posted config is defining PCM "default" *twice* - pick one and stick with it ;)
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mr Paul, some time ago I had to do that for some applications I do not remember who where not working with Dmix only as default. If I remember, all applications work that way with Alsa. I keep it since then. Do you see a problem?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 8:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just told you. It's pointless to define the same thing twice, i.e. pcm.!default. I expect that ALSA is using the last one (slave.pcm "dmixer"), so you can remove the first one, to stop confusing people.

So, remove this:
Code:
pcm.!default {
   type  hw
   card 0
}
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 10:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Done with /etc/asound.conf in this post.
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