Alsa Mixer Problem

Hi,

Although I've been using linux several years back. I am not a fast learner so here goes a question I should understand long ago.

I have installed fresh Ubuntu 15.04 netinstall.

After that install xorg and windows manager.
Sound was working.
Then I wanted to check the mixer and I used to alsamixer, and strange the app was not there.
I have tried all alsa* binaries but none of them was installed.

How can I findout what sound system is running?

Thanks

All the install went fine,
able to install adobe and other utilities needed for a pleasure web surfing experience, only problem there is no sound

I tried

#yum --enablerepo=epel install kmod-alsa


nothing

also tried:

yum install kmod-alsa
68 yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install kmod-alsa
69 yum --enablerepo=epel install kmod-alsa
70 yum --enablerepo=Epel install kmod-alsa
71 yum install epel-release
72 yum --enablerepo=epel install kmod-alsa
73 yum install elrepo-release

Hello Everyone,

I installed Linux Mint about four days ago, after a few hitches that I was able to figure out on my own, I got everything up and running and am enjoying my experience. There is one problem however, that I haven't been able to fix myself, so now I'm asking for the communities help. Since day 1 I haven't had any sound from Mint. I've tried videos through Firefox, music on Banshee, and system sounds but nothing is working at all. I have spent the better part of the last three days ripping my hair out and jumping from source to source looking for an answer and so far nothing has worked. I have tried a lot of things including forcing ALSA to reload, and even uninstalling and reinstalling ALSA and Pulse all together. Therein lies my next issue, I followed a guide off of the forums to try uninstalling and reinstalling ALSA and Pulse and it seemed all went according to plan, I reveived no errors during the process, but now my little sound icon in the system tray is missing.

Here is the info on my audio device:

Code: Select all
Audio: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Device 9840 driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:01.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-37-generic


Any help is greatly appreciated as having no sound, while not vital, is a major inconvenience.

Thank you!

I have installed a new Debian OS to try out the xfce desktop.
My radeon hdmi sound card needs non-free drivers and so I have no sound.
On my previous debian install with gnome desktop, I found a number of changes I had to make to get the sound working.

I have done all this with this new install with xfce.
However, one thing I haven't done yet is to change the System settings-Sound settings to use the hdmi sound card.
The problem is the xfce desktop doesn't have an icon for sound settings under System settings.

This is a bit weird. So I'm wondering if xfce has installed correctly or if it's missing a package so the System sound settings will show up.
Does anyone know what's going on?

Hi Friends,

I recently install a Debian 8.0 Jessie on a Laptop Dell latitude E6540 with gnome 3.14+3.
But the problem is that it doesn't recongnize my multimedia buttons, I tried some methods but I didn't get results.

Code:

$showkey --scancodes
volume up   -- 0xe0 0x30 0xe0 0xb0
volume down -- 0xe0 0x2e 0xe0 0xae
volume mute -- 0xe0 0x20 0xe0 0xa0

$showkey --keycodes
volume up   -- 115
volume down -- 114
volume mute -- 113

xev
Code:

Volume up produces:

FocusOut event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyPointer

FocusIn event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyPointer

KeymapNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   8   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0 
Volume down:

FocusOut event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusOut event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyPointer

FocusIn event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

Volume mute:

FocusOut event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusOut event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyPointer

FocusIn event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

On Setting --> Keyboard --> Shortcuts --> Sound and Media :

Volume up Audio mute
Volume down Audio lower volume
Volume mute Audio raise volume

On dconf org.gnome.settings-deamon.plugins.media-keys

Volume up XF86AudioLowerVolume
Volume down XF86AudioRiseVolume
Volume mute XF86AudioMute

When I reassinged the keys on Settings>Keyboard>Shortcuts to F7, F8 and F9 it works, but when use the keys volume up, down and mute It doesn't show anything.

The same happens with Fn + Brightness keys, in this case it worked the first time but then stop to work I don't know why..

Please some help with this..

Hi, I am new in Slackware. I installed it with KDE.
When I am starting the system this appears:
http://oi60.tinypic.com/20f7qkl.jpg

But there is a good new. When I run "aplay -D plughw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" (A command that I found surfing in Internet) The pc give me sound.


In no other way I have sound. What can I do? Thanks a lot

Sorry for my basic english

Hi, I am trying pulseaudio and alsa to work on chroot linux. But there's one problem, whenevr I install PulseAudio, it makes a non working virtual device by default instead of the YMU-823. So how do I get pa to change my default sound card.

Not sure if I should be posting this here or the arch board (I dont think there is a manjaro board but arch is close enough) but I'm still learning the in and outs of all this and this board has been really helpful with ambiguous problems.

The Laptop:
Hardwa Lenovo Thinkpad W530
OS: Manjaro 0.8.12 Ascella
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 3.19.3-1-MANJARO
Shell: bash 4.3.33
Resolution: 1600x900
DE: XFCE4
WM: Xfwm4
WM Theme: Menda
GTK Theme: Xfce-dusk [GTK2], Not Found [GTK3]
Icon Theme: Menda-Square
Font: Cantarell 11
CPU: Intel Core i7-3630QM CPU @ 3.4GHz
GPU: Quadro K1000M
RAM: 1112MB / 15871MB

Problem: Audio will randomly stop, only after waking up or logging in. It never happens during playback. It seems once I get it working again it doesn't happen.

Oddly enough, I cannot recreate the problem it's pretty inconsistent but its happening fairly regularly

What happened when it started: I was trying to connect headphones by bluetooth. Beats headphones (if this is relevent). It connected right up, but it took a little bit of troubleshooting before I realized I had to manually switch the output source to be the headphones. The problem started shortly after this so I am guessing this is what started it.

Troubleshooting: Here is what I am noticing, simply plugging an audio cable in and then out resets playback to the speakers. I took at look at the 'audio mixer' and saw this, whe nthe headphones are plugged in, speakers switch to "muted", masters level drops slightly, and 'mic boost' turns up a bit. Unplugging them unmutes the speakers, puts master back to maximum, and turns mic boost down.


I haven't seen the audio mixer while the problem is still happening because It's become a kneejerk reaction to just quickly stick the headphones jack in to fix it.

I've seen this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...put%27-798325/
and this following article:
http://ubuntugeek.com/forum/index.php?topic=21.0

These seem more applicable to ubuntu and the problem itself seems different.



Any thoughts?

I tried setting my FiiO-Dac as default alsa sound device using changes in my alsa.conf, but after a reboot, alsa always went back to my broken onboard sound. Help would be appreciated.

cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_hda_intel
1 snd_hda_intel
2 snd_usb_audio
3 snd_usb_audio

cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
HDA ATI SB at 0xfe600000 irq 16
1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xfe080000 irq 59
2 [Device ]: USB-Audio - USB PnP Sound Device
C-Media Electronics Inc. USB PnP Sound Device at usb-0000:00:12.2-2.3, full spe
3 [Audio ]: USB-Audio - DigiHug USB Audio
FiiO DigiHug USB Audio at usb-0000:00:12.2-2.4, full speed

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Device [USB PnP Sound Device], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: Audio [DigiHug USB Audio], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: Audio [DigiHug USB Audio], device 1: USB Audio [USB Audio #1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 53248 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 65536 1
snd_hda_codec_generic 65536 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_usb_audio 151552 0
snd_hda_intel 28672 0
snd_usbmidi_lib 28672 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 28672 1 snd_usbmidi_lib
snd_seq_device 16384 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_hda_controller 28672 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec 114688 5 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_hwdep 16384 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 90112 5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller snd_timer 28672 1 snd_pcm
snd 69632 12 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_usb_audio,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_h da_codec_generic,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device
soundcore 16384 2 snd,snd_hda_codec
usbcore 200704 11 uas,snd_usb_audio,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,ohci_pci,snd_usbmidi_lib,ehci_hcd,ehci_pci,usbhid,xhci_hcd,xh ci_pci

this is what I get after running "inxi -r"
Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/clipgrab-team-ppa-trusty.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/clipgrab-team/ppa/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/clipgrab-team/ppa/ubuntu trusty main
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ferramroberto-lffl-trusty.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ferramroberto/lffl/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ferramroberto/lffl/ubuntu trusty main
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list
deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu trusty-getdeb apps
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gnome3-team-gnome3-trusty.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu trusty main
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kalakris-okular-trusty.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kalakris/okular/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kalakris/okular/ubuntu trusty main
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kilian-f_lux-trusty.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kilian/f.lux/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kilian/f.lux/ubuntu trusty main
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/libreoffice-ppa-trusty.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu trusty main
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com rebecca main upstream import
deb http://extra.linuxmint.com rebecca main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ trusty partner
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ricotz-testing-trusty.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu trusty main

Thanks in advance, ScottG