Debian Alsa configuration snd_emu10k1

cybermatthieu · 11-14-2007, 02:05 AM

Hi,
I'm having some troubles with alsa. To start off my card is an Creative Labs SB Audigy. I got sound with totem and pidgin, but xmms gives me this error :

Code:

Please check that:
Your soundcard is configured properly
You have the correct output plugin selected
No other program is blocking the soundcard

And in the console I get :

Code:

ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.pcm.dmix.device'
ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default

** WARNING **: alsa_setup(): Failed to open pcm device (default): No such file or directory

I can get sound out of xmms only if I select the oss plugin, I was using alsa in xmms before...

An other problem that I have, is that tremulous has no sound.. Sad When I run tremulous from a console I get this message:

Code:

------ Initializing Sound ------
Initializing SDL audio driver...
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.pcm.dmix.device'
ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
SDL audio driver is "(UNKNOWN)".
SDL_OpenAudio() failed: No available audio device
Sound intialization failed.
--------------------------------

So I google a bit to find info about asound for SDL config... When I try asoundconf list I get no card.

Also in gnome sound preferences, I get an error if I try to test the sound playback for the sound event, music and movies, audio conferencing with alsa but oss is ok... Here's the error I get :

Code:

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?product=GStreamer.

Here's what I've done so far:
put "snd_emu10k1" in /etc/modules

added these two lines in

Code:

options snd_hda_intel index=-2
options snd_emu10k1 index=0

So that my creative card is loaded and not the onboard card.

I've used alsaconf with no success...

Wish config file am I missing??

Thanks,

Matt

hansalfredche · 11-14-2007, 09:06 AM

I think this is more a xmms problem than an ALSA one. So maybe you should play around in xmms. It is not maintained since some years now, btw.

HappyTux · 11-14-2007, 12:51 PM

I had the same problem having two sound cards use to work perfectly but now it does not what I did to solve it was go into my BIOS and disable the onboard sound, now my Audigy works fine and make sure you the alsa-oss package installed for emulation of the OSS for those programs that still need it.

cybermatthieu · 11-14-2007, 07:52 PM

Thanks for the replies!

That's true, xmms is not maintained anymore but I really like it. It's not only an xmms problem... (sadly) If in gnome I set the configuration to alsa I don't have any sound... But if I set it to oss I get sound but I really want alsa.

For the bios, I thought of that, the onboard card is disabled, but it was disabled after the inicial Debian installation.

Thanks again for the replies, I'll keep googling...

Matt

cybermatthieu · 11-19-2007, 12:34 AM

Today I tried to install the libsdl1.2debian-oss. After that I fired up tremulous, got sound!

but oss

..

I tried to reinstall libsdl1.2debian-alsa thinking that maybe the mystery configuration whould be solve... but no... Still googling

I find it odd that asoundconf list has no results.

I saw that I'm not the only one :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=362231

Seems like unbuntu 7.10 was also affected.

cybermatthieu · 11-19-2007, 12:50 AM

Problem solved!

I deleted these two files in my home directory:
.asoundrc
.asoundrc.asoundconf

Rebooted and I had alsa workin!

I tried this after resding this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ils/+bug/67998

Hope this can help someone else!

Thanks for all your support,

Matt