[olug] sound?

Noel Leistad noel at metc.net
Fri Jun 28 01:12:41 UTC 2013


No HDMI on the myth unit, it's a backend that only records.... Speakers 
connected via 3.5mm

Hadn't thought of the -v on aplay, I'll dump the scsconfig ? log 
tomorrow when back to work and see how these compare.

Thanks.


output:
  aplay -v /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little 
Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Mono
Plug PCM: Rate conversion PCM (48000, sformat=S16_LE)
Its setup is:
   stream       : PLAYBACK
   access       : RW_INTERLEAVED
   format       : S16_LE
   subformat    : STD
   channels     : 1
   rate         : 22050
   exact rate   : 22050 (22050/1)
   msbits       : 16
   buffer_size  : 7526
   period_size  : 470
   period_time  : 21333
   tstamp_mode  : NONE
   period_step  : 1
   avail_min    : 470
   period_event : 0
   start_threshold  : 7526
   stop_threshold   : 7526
   silence_threshold: 0
   silence_size : 0
   boundary     : 493223936
Slave: Route conversion PCM (sformat=S16_LE)
   Transformation table:
     0 <- 0
     1 <- 0
Its setup is:
   stream       : PLAYBACK
   access       : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
   format       : S16_LE
   subformat    : STD
   channels     : 1
   rate         : 48000
   exact rate   : 48000 (48000/1)
   msbits       : 16
   buffer_size  : 16384
   period_size  : 1024
   period_time  : 21333
   tstamp_mode  : NONE
   period_step  : 1
   avail_min    : 1024
   period_event : 0
   start_threshold  : 16384
   stop_threshold   : 16384
   silence_threshold: 0
   silence_size : 0
   boundary     : 1073741824
Slave: Direct Stream Mixing PCM
Its setup is:
   stream       : PLAYBACK
   access       : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
   format       : S16_LE
   subformat    : STD
   channels     : 2
   rate         : 48000
   exact rate   : 48000 (48000/1)
   msbits       : 16
   buffer_size  : 16384
   period_size  : 1024
   period_time  : 21333
   tstamp_mode  : NONE
   period_step  : 1
   avail_min    : 1024
   period_event : 0
   start_threshold  : 16384
   stop_threshold   : 16384
   silence_threshold: 0
   silence_size : 0
   boundary     : 1073741824
Hardware PCM card 0 'Intel ICH5' device 4 subdevice 0
Its setup is:
   stream       : PLAYBACK
   access       : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
   format       : S16_LE
   subformat    : STD
   channels     : 2
   rate         : 48000
   exact rate   : 48000 (48000/1)
   msbits       : 16
   buffer_size  : 16384
   period_size  : 1024
   period_time  : 21333
   tstamp_mode  : ENABLE
   period_step  : 1
   avail_min    : 1024
   period_event : 0
   start_threshold  : 1
   stop_threshold   : 1073741824
   silence_threshold: 0
   silence_size : 1073741824
   boundary     : 1073741824


On 6/27/2013 4:47 PM, unfy wrote:
> I'll echo request for no errors from aplay etc ?
>
> Are you attempting to pump audio out HDMI or the 3.5mm jacks ?
>
> -Will
>
>
> On 6/27/2013 3:29 PM, Noel Leistad wrote:
>> Mixer levels all sources at 100%. Works FINE in MythTV, the
>> system-config-soundcard works as well. I don't have pulse installed, but
>> could try. Suppose it'll get no worse...the alternative has been KVM
>> switch to a Windows box for audio. How degrading; and how lazy.
>>
>> Noel
>>
>> On 06/27/2013 03:02 PM, Justin Reiners wrote:
>>> porn is absolutely no fun without sound... I feel your pain :)
>>>
>>> That is strange that it works everywhere else, do you get any errors 
>>> when
>>> attempting to play sounds?
>>>
>>> like others have said, I would check mixer levels.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Kelly Williams
>>> <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had the same problem last night when I mint 13 on my Dell D610. It
>>>> worked fine until I added mate desktop to it. Pulse was saying 
>>>> there was
>>>> the card and it was getting sound, I could see the meter flashing but
>>>> nothing was coming out of the speakers and I tried using the head 
>>>> phones
>>>> and that didn't work either. This is what worked for me try it
>>>> http://unix.stackexchange.com/**questions/44423/getting-sound-**
>>>> working-on-linux-mint-13-mate<http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44423/getting-sound-working-on-linux-mint-13-mate> 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 6/27/2013 12:59 PM, Rob Townley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> egrep -i 'pulse|audio|sound|rtkit' /etc/group
>>>>>
>>>>> rtkit is the realtime part of pulse, but that group is not needed.  i
>>>>> would
>>>>> like to see documentation on what groups to append to default 
>>>>> groups for
>>>>> sound and cd burning.  But more importantly, for all the groups in
>>>>> /etc/group, what each particular group enables and the security
>>>>> ramifications of each.
>>>>>
>>>>> Permission changes require at least logout/login to become 
>>>>> effective ....
>>>>> maybe even a reboot since pulse sets cookies for X.  `id username` 
>>>>> would
>>>>> show i am a member of a particular group, but forget that it had not
>>>>> really
>>>>> become effective yet.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   Try Pulse Audio Player
>>>>>> paplay /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could it be a permissions problem?  System-config* stuff is often 
>>>>>> run as
>>>>>> root, is the user a member of the audio group?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Any chance it is a speaker or hardware problem?
>>>>>>> Dan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Jun 27, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Noel Leistad <noel at metc.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   It's been so long since I've had to fix a sound issue that I've
>>>>>>>> forgotten how. Could anyone offer suggestions or tell me what I 
>>>>>>>> forgot
>>>>>>>> to provide? I'm stumped; the fact that system-config-soundcard is
>>>>>>>> working along w/ MythTV complicates it to the point that Google 
>>>>>>>> hasn't
>>>>>>>> been helpful in the first 15 minutes of searching....
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> noel
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> running CentOS 5.9 32-bit
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> no sound from aplay /usr/share/sounds/* attempts
>>>>>>>> no sound from vlc *.mp3 attempts
>>>>>>>> no sound or sound device from any flash videos (ahhh!! the real
>>>>>>>> problem...., or at least the reason for attempting to fix)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> system-config-soundcard detects, plays test sound.
>>>>>>>> mythfrontend plays sound from recordings, liveTV
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> aplay -l gives:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
>>>>>>>> card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
>>>>>>>>    Subdevices: 1/1
>>>>>>>>    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>>>>>>>> card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel 
>>>>>>>> ICH5 -
>>>>>>>> IEC958]
>>>>>>>>    Subdevices: 0/1
>>>>>>>>    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -- 
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>>>>>>>> #  Noel Leistad, #
>>>>>>>> # noel at metc.net                                      #
>>>>>>>> ##############################**#########################
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>> eleven-year-olds
>>>>>>>> is of course a shameful canard.  The key age has traditionally 
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