Alsa loads fine, but no sound :(

flonejek · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 2:03 pm Post subject: Alsa loads fine, but no sound :(

Well, I have an Audigy, and its been working fine for over a year. I have drivers compiled into my 2.6.5-r1 kernel (gentoo-dev-sources), and only recompiled after it started playing up. What happened was I was in gnome, and started a new gdm session on display 8 (with gnome still running on display 7). I started a kde session, and after it hung on initialising system devices, the music I was playing with rhythmbox just cut out.

Kinda confused, I logged out of kde, and noting I could do in gnome (checked volume applet and all) brought back my sound. I was kinda desperate so I dropped back to virtual console 1 and tried aplay on half the wavs in /usr/share/sounds, nothing worked.

Now I restarted alsa (/etc/init.d/alsasound restart) and hoped sound would come back (checked everything with alsamixer, soundcard shows up fine but still no sound form speakers), but still nothing. After recompiling drivers both as modules and builtin to the kernel, and checking afteer each recompile, I uninstalled alsa-libs and alsa-utils (alsa-driver is compiled into kernel), deleted /etc/asound.state and installed my soundcard again by hand with builtin kernel drivers. Again alsa detected it, and after unmuting Master and PCM (set both to 100), I tried aplay on stuff in my /usr/share/sounds dir. Again no luck, I'm really missing my ogg collection...

I really hope I missed something simple, but I got a feeling that kde borked my soundcard, can somebody help please???

I've asked this question in the linuxquestions.org forums, thought somebody may be able to help me here as well...
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dsd · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 4:25 pm Post subject:

is artsd running? if so, kill it, and disable it in the KDE control center (or configure all other apps to use arts)
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flonejek · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 5:13 pm Post subject:

I already killed artsd, (one of the first things I did), it had no effect

, thanks for your reply.
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Aman9090 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 234

When KDE fux3d up my alsa, all I did was unmerge everything to do with ALSA and ARTSD and KDE and then just followed the gentoo guide to installing ALSA, and it worked perfectly after that.

flonejek · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 11:16 pm Post subject:

cool, thanks, trying that now

edit: Unmerged arts, kde, alsa-utils and did a depclean. After reinstallinling alsa evrything still didn't work. Am going to check soundcard in another computer tommorow...
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Asus P4800S, 512MB PC2700, Leadtek Ti4200, Creative SBAudigy
120GB WD, 40GB ipod
Lite-On 48x24x48 CDR/RW, MSI 16xDVD
Iomega Zip 250, 1.4" floppy drive
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