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 Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:31 pm Post subject: alsa-firmware is blocking linux-firmware |
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Hello All,
I come from arch Linux, and I'm thinking moving to Gentoo on my main computer any time soon, because I wanna learn more stuff about Linux and because I've been reading lots of things on this forums and the community is realy great.
For the moment I'm trying to install Gentoo on an old PC that i have (not to fuck up my *real* install on my everyday computer)
I installed MATE desktop ; but having no sound i figured I would need to install somme Alsa stuff ; and one of theme is causing me problems in Portage.
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sudo emerge alsa-firmware
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] sys-firmware/alsa-firmware-1.0.29::gentoo ALSA_CARDS="maestro3 ymfpci -aica -asihpi -ca0132 -cs46xx -darla20 -darla24 -echo3g -emu10k1 -emu1212 -emu1616 -emu1820 -gina20 -gina24 -hdsp -hdspm -indigo -indigoio -korg1212 -layla20 -layla24 -mia -mixart -mona -msnd-pinnacle -pcxhr -sb16 -usb-usx2y -vx222 -wavefront" 4880 KiB
[blocks B ] sys-firmware/alsa-firmware[alsa_cards_ymfpci] ("sys-firmware/alsa-firmware[alsa_cards_ymfpci]" is blocking sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20180103-r1)
[blocks B ] sys-firmware/alsa-firmware[alsa_cards_maestro3] ("sys-firmware/alsa-firmware[alsa_cards_maestro3]" is blocking sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20180103-r1)
Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 4880 KiB
Conflict: 2 blocks (2 unsatisfied)
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
(sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20180103-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
sys-kernel/linux-firmware required by @selected
(sys-firmware/alsa-firmware-1.0.29:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
alsa-firmware
For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage#Blocked_packages
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I kind of understand that this is what we call "hard blockers" ; but i don't know how to fix this.
Any help would be appriciated !
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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rm alsa-firmware. it should all be contained within the linux-firmware ebuild
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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Naib,
Thanks ; so I dont'ont need alsa-firmware.
But then do you have an idea of the reason I have no sound ?
I have installed linux-firmware and complied my kernel with "genkernel all".
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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Naib,
You mean with the emerge command, not with rm.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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gentoo-n00b,
Firmware is fairly rare on sound cards.
Post your lspci output, the output of ls -l /dev/snd and the output of groups, run as your normal user.
That will get us started.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | Naib,
You mean with the emerge command, not with rm. |
yup  . emerge -C alsa-firmware
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 6:33 am Post subject: |
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Hi !
Here's my lspci (which BTW I can only run as root ; same for reboot poweroff etc.... Have any idea why ?)
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localhost /home/ordi # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216M [GeForce GT 230M] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100
04:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller
04:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5U2xx (R5U230 / R5U231 / R5U241) [Memory Stick Host Controller]
04:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 PCIe IEEE 1
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Here's my ls -l /dev/sdn
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ordi@localhost ~ $ ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Feb 20 07:28 by-path
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 6 Feb 20 07:28 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 2 Feb 20 07:28 controlC1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 11 Feb 20 07:28 hwC0D0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 12 Feb 20 07:28 hwC0D1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 13 Feb 20 07:28 hwC0D2
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 14 Feb 20 07:28 hwC0D3
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 5 Feb 20 07:28 hwC1D0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 7 Feb 20 07:28 pcmC0D3p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 8 Feb 20 07:28 pcmC0D7p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 9 Feb 20 07:28 pcmC0D8p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 10 Feb 20 07:28 pcmC0D9p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 4 Feb 20 07:28 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 3 Feb 20 07:28 pcmC1D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Feb 20 07:28 timer
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groups
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ordi@localhost ~ $ groups
wheel users ordi
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Iguess I should be adding myself to the sound group right ? But I don't have sound either when I log into MATE as root.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 8:24 am Post subject: |
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the reason lspci "can only be run as root" will more than likely be due to /sbin & /usr/sbin not being in a normal users path by default. you could add these or just pretend the path.
You will need to add your normal user to the audio group THEN you need to ensure the correct sound card is selected (sometimes the hdmi device is selected as "default) and unmute it.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 9:54 am Post subject: |
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gentoo-n00b,
| Code: | 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1) |
Your analogue sound card is listed first in lspci, so should be the default card.
From /dev/snd, your kernel looks good. All the right bits are there.
You need to be in the audio group to use the sound devices. Root owns them so that's OK for root.
Looks in alsamixer | Code: | ┌────────────────────────────── AlsaMixer v1.1.5 ──────────────────────────────┐
│ Card: HDA ATI SB F1: Help │
│ Chip: VIA VT1708S F2: System information │
│ View: F3:[Playback] F4: Capture F5: All F6: Select sound card │
│ Item: Master [dB gain: 0.00] Esc: Exit │
│ │
│ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ │
│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │
│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ →
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ →
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ →
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ →
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ →
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ →
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ →
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ ├──┤ ┌──┐ └──┘ ├──┤ ├──┤ └──┘ ├──┤ ├──┤ │
│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │MM│ │OO│ │OO│ │
│ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ │
│ 100 75<>75 94<>94 0<>0 0<>0 88<>88 73 │
│ < Master >Headphon PCM Front Front Mi Front Mi Surround Center |
Unmute Master, PCM and Front and set the sliders to about 75%.
Be sure that anything with IEC or SPDI/F in its name is muted.
OO menas open
MM means muted.
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For completeness, neither of your sound cards has firmware.
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gentoo-n00b
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you guys for your advices.
Unfortunately, I didn't manage to work things out as desribed in your posts ; I could see my sound card in the "sound" setup of MATE, and I unuted it in alsamixer but still got no sound.
I remembered that in one of my previous install, i had sound workin using pulseaudio. So in emerge pulseaudio, and sound worked.
So then assumed thant since I had pulseaudio working I didn't need alsa ; and I did
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sudo emerge -Ca media-sound/alsa-utils media-sound/alsa-tools media-plugins/alsa-plugins media-libs/alsa-lib dev-python/pyalsa
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But then sound stoped working... So I re-emerged all these alsa packages and now sound is fine.
I though that alsa and pulseaudio were alternative to one another, and it seems to me that I need both ; have I been mistaken ?
Thanks again a lot for your input guys ! |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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gentoo-n00b,
pulse audio is a sound server that depends on a working alsa.
You must have alsa.
Pulse audio is not required.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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My problem is "solved" sine I have sound working with alsa + pulseaudio.
The reason why I didn't want pulseaudio in the first place is that I understood it was somehow dependent on systemd (it was created by the same guy Poettering or something, right ?). How true is that ? I mean, il have PA without systemd right now (and I have a -systemd use flag). |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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gentoo-n00b,
Yes, PA was created by the systemd guy. So was HAL.
PA does not depend on systemd. Well, not yet anyway.
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