[linux-audio-user] No sound from streaming audio + ALSA

[Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao]

Hi,

I recently switched from OSS to ALSA and no sound comes from streaming audio.  
CD playing with xmms or cdplay works correctly. Streaming audio with xmms or 
gxine produces no sound. I can see that the server was contacted and the 
player is reproducing the stream, but only a hissing sound comes from the 
loudspeakers. I ruled out mixer problems because CD playing produces sound.

I'm running Debian sid, kernel 2.6.14-2-686, on a Fujitsu E342 laptop, with 
onboard ES1879-chip Soundblaster-compatible soundcard. I've attached the 
output of the http://alsa.opensrc.org//aadebug.txt script.

I'm really puzzled why CD playing produces sound but streaming audio doesn't.  
I googled on 'alsa streaming audio sound linux' and was surprised that nobody 
seemed to have bumped into this.

Could anybody give me any leads on how to pursue this problem further ?

Thanks for your attention,
Paulo
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ALSA Audio Debug v0.1.0 - Mon Dec 12 14:34:38 BRDT 2005
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=aadebug
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

Kernel ----------------------------------------------------
Linux cortazar 2.6.14-2-686 #2 Fri Dec 9 10:11:34 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

Loaded Modules --------------------------------------------
snd_es18xx             31496  1 
snd_pcm                92392  1 snd_es18xx
snd_page_alloc         10952  1 snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib           10848  1 snd_es18xx
snd_timer              24708  2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep               9184  1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart         7328  1 snd_es18xx
snd_rawmidi            24896  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8748  2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd                    55940  10 snd_es18xx,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device

Modprobe Conf ---------------------------------------------
alias char-major-14-* soundcore

Proc Asound -----------------------------------------------
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.10rc1 (Mon Sep 12 08:13:09 2005 UTC).
0 [ES1879         ]: ES1879 - ESS AudioDrive ES1879
                     ESS AudioDrive ES1879 at 0x220, irq 5, dma1 1, dma2 5
  8: [0- 0]: raw midi
  4: [0- 0]: hardware dependent
 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback
 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture
  0: [0- 0]: ctl
 33:       : timer
00-00: OPL3 FM
00-00: ES1879 : ESS AudioDrive ES1879 : playback 2 : capture 1
cat: /proc/asound/seq/clients: No such file or directory

Dev Snd ---------------------------------------------------
controlC0  hwC0D0  midiC0D0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  timer

CPU -------------------------------------------------------
model name	: Celeron (Mendocino)
cpu MHz		: 298.677

RAM -------------------------------------------------------
MemTotal:       159172 kB
SwapTotal:      313256 kB

Hardware --------------------------------------------------
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 03)