Sound problem, yet again.

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PeterKraus · Post by **PeterKraus** » Wed May 14, 2008 10:29 pm

Hello,
so, I have searched trough all of these forums for help, but nothing helped...

What's my issue? Well, sound in certain apps stopped working, after latest upgrade of alsa (i think it was from .14 to .16). Quodlibet, smplayer, mplayer, all works fine at the same time. The only apps I have that don't work are FFx's flash plugin and wine output.

Using up-to-date Gentoo. Problem occured after upgrading alsa libraries to newer version. I have ran alsaconf, I have reemerged firefox and wine, no help.

Sound card is Intel HDA:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

Loaded modules are:
snd_pcm_oss; snd_mixer_oss; snd_seq_dummy; snd_seq_midi_event; snd_seq; snd_seq_device; snd_hda_intel; snd_pcm; snd_timer; snd; snd_page_alloc; soundcore

Kernel is:
Linux gentoo 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 #10 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 10 00:39:41 BST 2008 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
(not .25 due to fglrx [ati-drivers] conflict)

Dmesg output seems to show something after restarting alsa:
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1b.0 disabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:576: hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x008f000c

I'll try recompiling the kernel - IIRC it was compiled with different GCC than rest of system (emerge -e world after new gcc came out).

Cheers.
Peter.

0000000000000 · Post by **0000000000000** » Thu May 15, 2008 10:28 pm

I have this same problem on the same audio card and kernel.

I don't know if wine won't play sound, but everything but Firefox and flash seems to work fine.

I haven't found anything on the internet so far to fix this for me, so please if you do get it working, post what you did in here. thanks.

SeaTiger · Post by **SeaTiger** » Fri May 16, 2008 5:41 am

Try revdep-rebuild yet?

Scumpeter · Post by **Scumpeter** » Fri May 16, 2008 10:32 am

I've got a similar problem here. I have sound in flash - but not through alsa. (Sound blocks the device and it's not adjustable with alsamixer)

I have the same Kernel and Soundcard and x86_64. revdep-rebuild does nothing.
I also manually reemerged emul-linux-x86-soundlibs with no succes.

aidy · Post by **aidy** » Sun May 18, 2008 3:31 pm

same problem

i don't have the same soundcard but this isn't a hardware prob I'd say...

edit: i'm using epiphany though, gnome 2.22

G313373 · Post by **G313373** » Sun May 18, 2008 7:39 pm

Do you have alsa-driver installed? If yes I highly suggest to unmerge it. I also had a couple of problems with the same audio card, installing 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 solved it for me (for some reason it didn't work with 2.6.23-gentoo-XY). I dunno if it helps to delete all the old config files and run alsaconf again. Oh and I kicked esound out of my system and removed esd from my make.conf - now it works without any problems.

Regards

aidy · Post by **aidy** » Sun May 18, 2008 8:13 pm

seems to be an alsa prob or something, flash blocks the sound device... i don't have the esd use flag set

0000000000000 · Post by **0000000000000** » Sun May 18, 2008 9:37 pm

G313373 wrote:Do you have alsa-driver installed? If yes I highly suggest to unmerge it. I also had a couple of problems with the same audio card, installing 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 solved it for me (for some reason it didn't work with 2.6.23-gentoo-XY). I dunno if it helps to delete all the old config files and run alsaconf again. Oh and I kicked esound out of my system and removed esd from my make.conf - now it works without any problems.

Regards

I'd rather not remove alsa-driver as I didn't seem to have sound at all before I emerged that.

Surely there has to be another way. I've never had problems with any other Linux distribution.

G313373 · Post by **G313373** » Sun May 18, 2008 10:09 pm

I'm not sure if that will help since I not suffering from that problem:

http://victortrac.com/flash9_sound_on_6 ... ntoo_linux

regards

lizardbrain · Post by **lizardbrain** » Mon May 19, 2008 1:29 am

G313373:

Thanx. I re-emerged emul-linux-x86-soundlibs and nothing happened; then I remembered to logout and log back in. I now have sound in the flash player again. The problem has been fixed, for me, anyway.

0000000000000 · Post by **0000000000000** » Mon May 19, 2008 5:37 am

lizardbrain wrote:G313373:

Thanx. I re-emerged emul-linux-x86-soundlibs and nothing happened; then I remembered to logout and log back in. I now have sound in the flash player again. The problem has been fixed, for me, anyway.

That did not help for me. Did you do anything else?

Also, I don't have 64 bit, so I wasn't expecting that to work, but hell I will try anything at this point.

Aside from an 'rm -rf /*' command ;p

lizardbrain · Post by **lizardbrain** » Mon May 19, 2008 11:38 am

0000000000000 wrote:
lizardbrain wrote:G313373:

Thanx. I re-emerged emul-linux-x86-soundlibs and nothing happened; then I remembered to logout and log back in. I now have sound in the flash player again. The problem has been fixed, for me, anyway.
That did not help for me. Did you do anything else?

Also, I don't have 64 bit, so I wasn't expecting that to work, but hell I will try anything at this point.

Aside from an 'rm -rf /*' command ;p

Sorry, no. That's all I did. My system is 64-bit. I think that's what the emul-linux-x86-soundlibs package is for; it emulates an x86 box on a 64-bit box. Your system may be adversely affected by the package. But you may want the opinion of someone who actually knows what he's talking about.

aidy · Post by **aidy** » Mon May 19, 2008 3:22 pm

can you still have sound output from other programs while playing flash?

aidy · Post by **aidy** » Mon May 19, 2008 4:34 pm

I did a re-emerge of the emul libs and still no sound...

Scumpeter · Post by **Scumpeter** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:22 pm

Solved it that way: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-693050.html

Just upgraded app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs to 20080418.

0000000000000 · Post by **0000000000000** » Sun May 25, 2008 10:54 pm

if its of any help to anyone else, i got flash sound working finally after upgrading my kernel to 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 and compiling OSS support as a module (Open Sound System (DEPRECATED) and OSS sound modules in menuconfig), putting snd_pcm_oss into modules.autoload, and setting alsamixer levels all the way up on everything.

not sure which step fixed it, but at least it works now

vtrac · Post by **vtrac** » Tue May 27, 2008 5:14 pm

G313373 wrote:I'm not sure if that will help since I not suffering from that problem:

http://victortrac.com/flash9_sound_on_6 ... ntoo_linux

regards

Woah, that's me.

rix.rix · Post by **rix.rix** » Tue May 27, 2008 5:29 pm

(To the original poster)

Do you have media-libs/libmad merged?

wfahren · Post by **wfahren** » Wed May 28, 2008 7:34 pm

Try down grading alsa-lib to version 1.0.14_rc3. Fixed my no sound with firefox flash 9 videos

see this post

86me · Post by **86me** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 11:34 pm

SeaTiger wrote:Try revdep-rebuild yet?

This fixed my sound issue with quodlibet. Turns out xine-lib needed rebuilding (among others). Quod Libet uses xinebe for its audo backend.

PaulBredbury · Post by **PaulBredbury** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 4:21 am

Try my ALSA config. It works for some people.