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AgBr
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 Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 5:11 pm Post subject: [solved] Alsa sound not working properly in KDE |
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I have some strange problems getting sound working in KDE.
KMix shows several sound devices from which two produce sound on pushing the 'test' button. Which are:
HDA Intel PCH, ALC671 Analog (default Audio Device)
HDA Intel PCH, ALC671 Analog
'default'
and all other shown devices, which to my understanding are related to digital audio output, produce nothing.
So audio output should work in principle, no kernel module issue or anything like that.
I have pushed 'default' down the list to get the working two devices on top in kmix.
VLC-player is the only program where I can choose the output device.
On startup I get an error message informing me that there is no default sound device: 'no such file or directory'.
If I choose 'alsa-sound' and 'HDA Intel PCH, ALC671 Analog (default Audio Device)' manually inside the settings menu, VLC ist working correctly. With settings on 'standard' there is no sound.
All other programs like dragonplayer or any browser do not produce any sound. I do not have the option to choose the device manually there.
So I conclude, that programs inside the desktop environment rely on some device called 'default' which should be kind of linked to the respective physical device, which kmix should take care of but does not in my case.
I have not the slightest idea what to look for. Can anyone show me some way out of this?
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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"default" is an ALSA PCM, defined in /usr/share/alsa/pcm/default.conf - it's the most common output, and is stereo.
Try it with:
| Code: | | speaker-test -c 2 -D default |
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AgBr
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| Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| PaulBredbury wrote: | "default" is an ALSA PCM, defined in /usr/share/alsa/pcm/default.conf - it's the most common output, and is stereo.
Try it with:
| Code: | | speaker-test -c 2 -D default |
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The output is in German unfortunately:
| Code: | dg14-01 ~ # speaker-test -c 2 -D default
speaker-test 1.0.27.1
Wiedergabe-Gerät ist default
Stream-Parameter sind 48000 Hz, S16_LE, 2 Kanäle
Verwende 16 Oktaven rosa Rauschen
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Fehler beim Öffnen des Gerätes: -2, Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
dg14-01 ~ #
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It says:
Output device is default
Stream Parameter ...
Use 16 octaves pink noise
ALSA lib pcm ....
error while opening the device: -2, file or directory not found
Can you make anything out of this?
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/default.conf is unmodified by me
Thank you for looking |
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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Weird. What does this show:
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AgBr
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| Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| PaulBredbury wrote: | Weird. What does this show:
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dg14-01 ~ # aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
hdmi:CARD=MID,DEV=0
HDA Intel MID, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=MID,DEV=1
HDA Intel MID, HDMI 1
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=MID,DEV=2
HDA Intel MID, HDMI 2
HDMI Audio Output
default:CARD=PCH
HDA Intel PCH, ALC671 Analog
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
HDA Intel PCH, ALC671 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC671 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC671 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC671 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC671 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC671 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC671 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
dg14-01 ~ #
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| Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Does 'aplay -v /dev/urandom' add anything interesting ? |
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I would try it when xorg is not running, to prevent kmix from interfering. |
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AgBr
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| Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| VoidMage wrote: | | Does 'aplay -v /dev/urandom' add anything interesting ? |
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dg14-01 ~ # ps ax|grep kmix
14689 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto kmix
dg14-01 ~ # aplay -v /dev/urandom
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
aplay: main:722: Fehler beim Öffnen des Gerätes: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
dg14-01 ~ #
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last line says:
error on opening the device: file or directory not found
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't say the process' name was kmix 
Is phonon running, for example?
Check you have this, to be sure that nothing else has the soundcard open:
| Code: | $ cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params
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AgBr
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| Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| PaulBredbury wrote: | I didn't say the process' name was kmix
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sorry | Quote: |
Is phonon running, for example?
Check you have this, to be sure that nothing else has the soundcard open:
| Code: | $ cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params
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dg14-01 ~ # ps ax|grep phonon
27516 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto phonon
dg14-01 ~ # cat /proc/asound/card?/pcm*/sub?/hw_params
closed
closed
closed
closed
closed
closed
dg14-01 ~ #
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AgBr
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd like to bump this up again. My problem is still unsolved. In fact it got worse by now as I get sound, but no video output with dragonplayer if I push up the alsa-device in the list at first place. At the same time don't get sound with vlc anymore. Doesn't really anyone have further ideas on this? |
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krinn
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I would said, try first without kde, lookout if alsa works, then goes with your kde problem next ? |
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AgBr
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| krinn wrote: | | I would said, try first without kde, lookout if alsa works, then goes with your kde problem next ? |
I just did that before I went home. Sound in a browser works if I use xfce. I will test vlc and dragon tomorrow, but I am pretty sure it's a kde problem. |
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GenProm
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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Hello AgBr 
Do you use pluseaudio ? This is a bit tricky to setup and hijacks all/most sound outputs
Are you in the audio group? If so and you use pulseaudio, please remove yourself from it. If you use ONLY alsa then dont remove yourself.
Do you have a .asoundrc ? If so please post the contents.
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AgBr
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| GenProm wrote: | Hello AgBr
Do you use pluseaudio ? This is a bit tricky to setup and hijacks all/most sound outputs
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Franky, I don't have any clue really how it works but media-sound/pulseaudio is not installed. As far as I can tell I use alsa and something called gstreamer. I have rebuilt kmix with USE=-pulseaudio as I think kmix may expect something which isn't there. I can not try it out before tomorrow. | Quote: |
Are you in the audio group? If so and you use pulseaudio, please remove yourself from it. If you use ONLY alsa then dont remove yourself.
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There isn't anyone in the group audio and never has been. I am not the only one using the system by the way. All boxes can be potentially used by about 800 users. So it would not be feasible to add them all. I think, that's the reason for setting the devices rw for all users:
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box ~ # ls -l /dev/snd
insgesamt 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 10. Jan 09:31 by-path
crw-rw-rw-+ 1 root audio 116, 5 10. Jan 09:31 controlC0
crw-rw-rw-+ 1 root audio 116, 4 11. Feb 09:52 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw-rw-+ 1 root audio 116, 3 4. Mär 11:05 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw-rw-+ 1 root audio 116, 2 10. Jan 09:31 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw-rw-+ 1 root audio 116, 1 10. Jan 09:31 seq
crw-rw-rw-+ 1 root audio 116, 33 10. Jan 09:31 timer
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Do you have a .asoundrc ? If so please post the contents. |
No, there isn't any. Audio is working in priciple. In kmix I can test the device and it plays sound. But the connection between the mixer and all sound generating applications like browsers is not working. |
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GenProm
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | But the connection between the mixer and all sound generating applications like browsers is not working. |
This sounds like there is a problem with phonon and or gstreamer. As far as I know phonon/gstreamer does the connection between those. But other than that I'm out of ideas...
Do you got the gstreamer-alsa backend installed ?
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AgBr
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| GenProm wrote: | | Quote: | | But the connection between the mixer and all sound generating applications like browsers is not working. |
This sounds like there is a problem with phonon and or gstreamer. As far as I know phonon/gstreamer does the connection between those. But other than that I'm out of ideas...
Do you got the gstreamer-alsa backend installed ? |
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[I] kde-base/phonon-kde
Available versions: (4) 4.11.2(4/4.11) 4.11.5(4/4.11){tbz2} ~4.12.2(4/4.12)
{alsa aqua debug pulseaudio}
Installed versions: 4.11.5(4){tbz2}(23:31:43 21.02.2014)(alsa -aqua -debug -pulseaudio)
Homepage: http://phonon.kde.org
Description: Phonon KDE Integration
[I] media-libs/phonon
Available versions: 4.6.0-r1{tbz2} ~4.7.1 **9999 {aqua debug +gstreamer pulseaudio +qt4 qt5 vlc zeitgeist}
Installed versions: 4.6.0-r1{tbz2}(20:54:40 15.09.2012)(gstreamer -aqua -debug -pulseaudio -vlc -zeitgeist)
Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/phonon
Description: KDE multimedia API
[I] media-libs/phonon-gstreamer
Available versions: 4.6.3{tbz2} ~4.7.1 **9999 {alsa debug +network +qt4 qt5}
Installed versions: 4.6.3{tbz2}(13:52:37 09.04.2013)(alsa network -debug)
Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/phonon/phonon-gstreamer
Description: Phonon GStreamer backend
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The only thing to consider I can see is that the use-flag for vlc is not set with phonon. I will fix that tomorrow just in case. At least it may have influence on vlc. |
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AgBr
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 11:12 am Post subject: |
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| I can't tell whether recompiling kmix alone did the trick or setting -pulseaudio has been really needed, but it works again. Thank you all for loooking into this. |
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