no sound anymore

[Carlino]

Hi,
Sound used to perfectly work out of all softwares providing it (amarok, vlc, firefox...), untill...
Symptoms :
when amarok is fired, pop up window saying "XINE was unable to initialize any audio-drivers".
no sound comes out anymore from vlc , Quake3, or firefox, when on youtube for example . Video's fine thought.
when sounds tests are played with (gnome) sound manager: "audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Internal GStreamer error: state change failed. Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi ... =GStreamer" when Alsa is chosen. BUT, when OSS is chosen, I get the "beep".
What I've checked so far:
Alsaconf had no issue dealing with my sound card. Alsamixer works fine. Re-emerged media-libs/xine-lib, sys-apps/xinetd, x11-libs/libXinerama, x11-proto/xineramaproto, gstreamer, with no positive result.

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# cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.16rc2 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux littleindian 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Sat Oct 4 08:55:09 CEST 2008 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers: 
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config: 
Avance Logic ALS4000 at 0xec00, irq 19

Audio devices:
0:  (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices:
0: Avance Logic ALS4000 MIDI

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: ALS4000

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# cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [ALS4000        ]: ALS4000 - Avance Logic ALS4000
                      Avance Logic ALS4000 at 0xec00, irq 19

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# cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16rc2 (Thu Jan 31 16:40:16 2008 UTC).

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lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_seq_midi            9248  0 
snd_opl3_synth         12548  0 
snd_seq_midi_emul       7680  1 snd_opl3_synth
snd_seq_oss            24960  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      7552  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                34672  7 snd_seq_midi,snd_opl3_synth,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            32416  0 
snd_mixer_oss          15488  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_als4000            13152  1 
snd_sb_common          12672  1 snd_als4000
snd_pcm                44164  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_als4000
snd_page_alloc         10376  1 snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib           10880  2 snd_opl3_synth,snd_als4000
snd_timer              18056  3 snd_seq,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep               9860  1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart         8704  1 snd_als4000
snd_rawmidi            17952  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8332  6 snd_seq_midi,snd_opl3_synth,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd                    33316  16 snd_opl3_synth,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_als4000,snd_sb_common,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device

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 # /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
 * WARNING:  you are stopping a boot service.
 * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ...                                                                                                                                                                           [ ok ]
 * Killing processes using ALSA ...                                                                                                                                                                        [ ok ]
 * Unloading ALSA modules ...                                                                                                                                                                              [ ok ]
 * Loading ALSA modules ...
 *   Loading: snd-card-0 ...                                                                                                                                                                               [ ok ]
 *   Loading: snd-pcm-oss ...                                                                                                                                                                              [ ok ]
 *   Loading: snd-seq-oss ...                                                                                                                                                                              [ ok ]
 *   Loading: snd-opl3-synth ...                                                                                                                                                                           [ ok ]
 *   Loading: snd-seq-midi ...                                                                                                                                                                             [ ok ]
 * Restoring Mixer Levels ...                                                                                                                                                                              [ ok ]

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groups
wheel audio cdrom video users games apache ftp carlino plugdev

What I've been doing before I notice this issue:
install nvidia drivers for graphic card 6600 GT
install Quake3
upgrade kernel
--All this went fine, and I'm positive, sound was working, since I played Q3 with it.--
run "emerge -pv --update --newuse --deep world" --> 40 components had to be recompiled.
install PlayOnLinux.
It feels like the main sound channel, or so, (not sure to know how it works), is busy. I've been through something similar : when i would play a youtube video, then I would get the same symptoms as mentioned with amarok. But, restarting alsasound would solve this everytime.
Any idea ? 'cause this really sucks, and I can't think of anything else I could try to solve this issue.

[Carlino]

Some more trails to investigate:
when I play a video file with Totem, I do get sound, not with vlc or mplayer
running mplayer with command line, here's what's in the std output :

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[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: dlmisc.c:118:(snd_dlsym_verify) unable to verify version for symbol _snd_pcm_empty_open
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2108:(snd_pcm_open_conf) symbol _snd_pcm_empty_open is not defined inside [builtin]
[AO_ALSA] Erreur ouverture de lecture : No such device or address
mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding
[AO ARTS] can't connect to aRts soundserver
[AO ESD] Echec de esd_open_sound : No such file or directory
[AO SDL] Échantillonnage : 44100Hz Canaux : Stereo Format s16le
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: dlmisc.c:118:(snd_dlsym_verify) unable to verify version for symbol _snd_pcm_empty_open
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2108:(snd_pcm_open_conf) symbol _snd_pcm_empty_open is not defined inside [builtin]
mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding
[AO SDL] Impossible ouvrir audio : No available audio device
DVB card number must be between 1 and 4
AO: [null] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

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# lsof /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp*
COMMAND     PID    USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
mixer_app 10927 carlino   19u   CHR  116,0      4053 /dev/snd/controlC0

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# fuser -v /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp*
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  carlino   10927 F.... mixer_applet2

I recompiled the kernel, tried to play sounds on the previous kernels, same issue.

[Carlino]

Still stucked... been crawling through forums and googleing around, no way... Just in case :

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aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ALS4000 [Avance Logic ALS4000], device 0: ALS4000 DSP []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

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# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:46:03 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portages/packages"
FEATURES="distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ http://213.186.33.37/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://213.186.33.38/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://213.186.33.37/gentoo-distfiles/ http://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/"
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="fr fr_FR"
MAKEOPTS="-j 2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa amazon antlr apache2 arts bcel berkdb bitmap-fonts bsf cairo cdr cli commonslogging commonsnet cracklib crypt ctype cups cxx dbus dlloader dri dso dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd fam fbcondecor firefox fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jdepend jpeg jsch kde kerberos ldap libclamav libg++ lirc log4j mad midi mikmod mmx modplug mp3 mpeg mudflap musepack mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia oav ogg opengl openmp oro pam pcre perl pg-intdatetime png postgres ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection regexp resolver sdl session spell spl ssl swat tcpd threads truetype truetype-fonts udev unicode v4l vorbis webdav-neon webmin-minimal win32codecs x86 xcb xml xorg xscreensaver xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1 emu10k1x" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw copy dshare dsnoop extplug file hooks ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi rate route share shm null" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr fr_FR" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

And finally, the list of packages that had to be recompiled ( emerge --newuse --deep...)after I install a nvidia 6600GT and add nvidia flag to Use:
sys-libs/zlib sys-devel/patch sys-libs/ncurses sys-libs/ncurses dev-libs/crypto++ media-libs/mesa media-gfx/nvidia-cg-toolkit media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera dev-perl/HTML-Parser media-libs/alsa-lib media-libs/a52dec media-libs/libdca sys-apps/groff media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia media-fonts/font-adobe media-fonts/font-misc-misc media-fonts/font-cursor-misc media-fonts/font-bh-type1 media-gfx/openexr_viewers media-libs/libmpeg3 dev-perl/module-build dev-util/boost-build dev-java/javatoolkit dev-java/bsh-2.0_beta4 media-plugins/gst-plugins-gconf x11-apps/xinit net-ftp/proftpd dev-libs/pwlib media-video/mjpegtools games-emulation/advancemame media-libs/smpeg media-video/mpeg4ip media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta x11-base/xorg-server games-emulation/xmame media-video/mplayer media-gfx/gimp gnome-base/gnome-applets sys-devel/gcc sys-libs/glibc media-video/transcode net-im/skype.
Would any of these packages, recompiled with what's in my make.conf, be responsible for the sound no being available on my box !!?? .
If anybody has even the begining of an idea, go ahead, shoot it

[Carlino]

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# gst-launch-0.10 -v filesrc location="01-aborted-the_chondrin_enigma.mp3" ! mad ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! alsasink
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
ERROR: from element /pipeline0/alsasink0: Could not open audio device for playback.
Additional debug info:
gstalsasink.c(697): gst_alsasink_open (): /pipeline0/alsasink0:
Playback open error on device 'default': No such device or address
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...

Come on... anybody ?

[Snake]

Did you figure where is the problem? I've got similar a one.
A few days ago I deleted alsa-drivers because they are deprecated, but since the I have problems with sound. If am watching something on youtube and then run Amarok I also get pop up window saying "XINE was unable to initialize any audio-drivers". But if I close firefox and rerun Amarok sound works but it doesn't work anymore in firefox.

[Carlino]

absolutely no solution came out from my crawling through linux fora, bug repports and stuff... If you manage to have some sound in some cases only, it might just be an issue related to sound output being used by another application hanging. When the issue occurs, have you tried to run as root /etc/init.d/alsasound restart and see what happens ?

[pascuol]

same problem with HDA-Intel

no sound with amarok, vlc, xine, etc...

sound with mp3blaster



i'm investigating ...

[Carlino]

Good to know we're getting numerous on this issue. By the way, I filled a bug report in http://bugzilla.gnome.org (bug n°555902), that has been answered, but still.... also in here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... re-675662/

[FastXSLT]

I had the same issue. Just followed advice from

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml

Didn't even have to recompile the kernel, just checked in menuconfig if things were configured ok.

emerge alsa-utils
etc-update
alsaconf

was all that I had to do. Good luck![/code]

[Carlino]

Eh FastXSLT ! The issue probably had the same symptoms, but the origin is different, 'cause I've been following http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml, and by the way, alsaconf did configure the sound card fine, no error so far around here:

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 Now ALSA is ready to use.
 For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

 Have a lot of fun!

and then alsamixer... no problem... any other idea ?

[kikibobo]

I'm having a similar problem, just with mplayer, since a recent emerge -uDN world. I did an emerge -e world hoping it would fix things, but no luck.

Sound works ok in the brower (e.g. youtube) but not through mplayer. When I try to play an mp3, I see this:

Audio file file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1411.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 176400->176400)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: dlmisc.c:118:(snd_dlsym_verify) unable to verify version for symbol _snd_pcm_empty_open
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c(snd_pcm_open_conf) symbol _snd_pcm_empty_open is not defined inside [builtin]
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such device or address
[AO ESD] esd_open_sound failed: No such file or directory
[AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: dlmisc.c:118:(snd_dlsym_verify) unable to verify version for symbol _snd_pcm_empty_open
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c(snd_pcm_open_conf) symbol _snd_pcm_empty_open is not defined inside [builtin]
[AO SDL] Unable to open audio: No available audio device
DVB card number must be between 1 and 4
AO: [null] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 1.9 (01.9) of 169.0 (02:49.0) 0.1%

Not really sure how problematic that is.

alsaconf seems happy enough. dmesg doesn't report anything suspicious:
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54684 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 46872

This is an amd64 box for what it's worth.

Thanks for any help...

[Snake]

My problem with sound (couldn't listen to music in amarok & firefox at the same time) is solved. I had some problems with flash and I couldn't watch flash stuff. Some videos on youtube didn't work and some did. Now that I have solved problem with flash also sound works ok.

[kikibobo]

What was the fix?

[Snake]

This is the topic about my flash problem. Since flash is working also sound is ok.

[kikibobo]

Right.

So, what was the fix?

[Raptor85]

Have you tried manually setting your audio device in programs that use it? I know with my audigy 4 it won't work on default, i have to manually set programs to use the proper device.

[zzz025]

I set up my .asoundrc long time ago. And my alsa stopped to make sound recently.
The sound applications failed to open default alsa device at that time. At the last, I
removed my .asoundrc and alsa works again.

[Logan11]

Same c@@p over here.
I have an SND-HDA-Realtek onboard audio. (My motherboard:GA-M750SLI-DS4)

Amarok was playing fine yesterday, though no video player could play sound nor the Flash Sites (yuoutube, etc....)

Today, the DragonPlayer plays fine but Amarok is knocked out once again.

Isn't there any open Bug report for this problem ?

EDIT

I just found out that if I close the program that uses the Audio Card and open another (say Diablo2 on Wine or Amarok) it plays sound fine.
If I open a second program that wants to use the Audio Card at the same time, IT DOESN'T PLAY.
Only one program at a time can use the audio.


Which program and/or driver is to blame for this ? It MUST be fixed ASAP.

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mplayer '/media/mamoth/Music/Ocean_s Twelve - The A La Menthe Nikkfurie _extended_.mp3'
MPlayer dev-SVN-r28288-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team                                                 
CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor (Family: 16, Model: 2, Stepping: 3)                        
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1                                             
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2                                   
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory                                    
Can't init input joystick                                                                               
mplayer: could not connect to socket                                                                    
mplayer: No such file or directory                                                                      
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.                           

Playing /media/mamoth/Music/Ocean_s Twelve - The A La Menthe Nikkfurie _extended_.mp3.
Audio only file format detected.                                                      
Clip info:                                                                            
 Title:                                                                               
 Artist:                                                                              
 Album:                                                                               
 Year:                                                                                
 Comment:                                                                             
 Genre: Other                                                                         
==========================================================================            
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3                                 
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/18.14% (ratio: 32000->176400)                
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)                
==========================================================================            
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory                              
[AO ESD] esd_open_sound failed: No such file or directory                             
[JACK] cannot open server
ao_nas: init(): Can't open nas audio server -> nosound
[AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le
[AO SDL] Unable to open audio: No available audio device
DVB card number must be between 1 and 4
AO: [null] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:   3.6 (03.6) of 220.0 (03:40.0)  0.8%

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emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.28-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================                                            
System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_9550_Quad-Core_Processor-with-glibc2.2.5             
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:35:01 +0000                                                           
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39                                                                                 
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1                                                                     
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7                                                                                                                     
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6                                                                                                                                
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2-r1                                                                                                                                
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0                                                                                                                                   
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.1-r1                                                                                                                                
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2                                                                                                                             
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63                                                                                                                              
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.28-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="buildpkg candy distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en el"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/phenom"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage-local"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
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Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Logan11]

I found what the problem was in my situation.

I also have a TV-Card in me system: Leadtek WinFast TV2000XP Global

As soon as I Unpluged the TV Card from the PC, my sound problems were gone.

I pluged the card again and recompiled my Kernel with no:
CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88_ALSA option this time.
The TV card doen't work in Linux anyway (no comment on that ).

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cat /boot/neo-config | grep CX
# CONFIG_EEPROM_93CX6 is not set
CONFIG_VIDEO_BTCX=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_CX25840=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_CX2341X=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88=m
# CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88_ALSA is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88_BLACKBIRD is not set
# CONFIG_SND_PCXHR is not set

I guess there was a conflict between the 2 audio devices,
the motherboard's own Realtek audio chip and the TV card's Audio Chip.