29 Nov
2008
29 Nov
'08
10:52 a.m.
On Saturday 29 November 2008, Thomas Kuther wrote:
On Sa, 29.11.08 08:11 Gene Heskett
<gene.heskett(a)verizon.net> wrote:
Ah, that looks as if the default device is set to use the "pulse"
plugin then. If your distribution did that system-whide,
your /etc/asound.conf might contain something like
pcm.!default {
type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
A cat of /etc/asound.conf:
=======
#Generated by system-config-soundcard
#If you edit this file, don't run system-config-soundcard,
#all your changes here could be lost.
#SWCONF
#DEV 2
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 2
defaults.ctl.card 0
=======
To test
audio w/o pulseaudio, you can take some wave file and run
pasuspender aplay foo.wav
This gets me dead silence, both from the speakers plugged into the
Audigy2, and from a phone type headset plugged into the 'lime' jack
called front speakers on the motherboard.
No errors reported:
[root@coyote cards]# pasuspender
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav Playing WAVE
'/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little
Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
or just kill it: pulseaudio -k
Which gets me this error now:
[root@coyote cards]# pulseaudio -k
[root@coyote cards]# aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
aplay: main:564: audio open error: Connection refused
(or maybe they put a .asoundrc in /etc/skel, then you should have it in
~/.asoundrc)
That file does not exist on this system.
So try commenting it out, paulseaudio -k, and aplay
again.
"cat /proc/asound/cards" shows the current order of your devices,
============
0 [Audigy2 ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 Value [SB0400]
Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] (rev.0, serial:0x10011102) at
0xac00, irq 17
1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xfe024000 irq 21
2 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfddfc000 irq 16
=============
so
aplay -Dhw:0 == card 0
aplay -Dhw:1 == card 1
etc..
No such socket on this video card. analog/svga(db15), svhs and digital only.
I just rebooted as something was preventing me from restarting the ktorrent
gui(and still is), and there was a message box on screen after x had started
telling me the default device refused permissions and that the sound server
would continue using /dev/null, so now we know where the audio is going, but
not why. What do I inspect and chmod to get that going, as root?
I restarted PA, it bitched about being run as
root, and re-ran your
sample with and without the pasuspender prefix, no errors reported
and pavumeter watching the simultainious output was as silent as the
rest of the room.
Those HDMI jacks contain both, audio and video signal output.
http://www.cobaltcable.com/images/hdmi_jack.jpg The ATI device in your lspci output could be the
HDMI audio out.
Try to run "update-pciids" as root, maybe lspci shows a correct
description then (instead of unknown device)
Only partially, now it says:
=====
03:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV610 audio device [Radeon
HD 2400 PRO]
Subsystem: Diamond Multimedia Systems Unknown device aa10
[...]
=======
But this card does not, to my knowledge have any audio output
facilities unless it is part of the digital connection to the
monitor, a Samsung BW-205, and there are no audio jacks in evidence
on it either. 
Regards,
Thomas
--
Cheers, Gene
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