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TinGod 08-01-2009 09:34 PM
Mint is silent (Sound card help)
 
Hi all,

I just installed Mint 7 today and am unable to get it to play any sounds. When running XP (on a separate hard drive), the sound card(s) work fine and I've made sure that none of the channels are muted in ALSAMIXER.

I'v tried "modprobe snd_ca0106" and it returned the dollar sign so I assume that the Sound Blaster driver is present.

Also, I'm not sure if this is related but, just in case, Rhythmbox looks for and is unable to find a plugin every time I try to run it but Alsaplayer and GNOME MPlayer recognize my music and seem to play it but no sound.

I have read numerous similar questions but some don't seem to apply to my situation and in some cases, I'm not sure what I'm looking at since I'm very new to this.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Here are the results of several commands(?) that I've seen requested in others posts.

lspci -v
Quote:
03:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster
Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 1007
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at d8a0 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: CA0106
Kernel modules: snd-ca0106

00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

Subsystem: Dell Device 0181

Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23

I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]

I/O ports at e8c0 [size=64]

Memory at dfebfe00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]

Memory at dfebfd00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]

Capabilities: <access denied>

Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH

Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0
aplay -l
Quote:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH6]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH6 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: CA0106 [CA0106], device 0: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: CA0106 [CA0106], device 1: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: CA0106 [CA0106], device 2: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: CA0106 [CA0106], device 3: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
lsmod | grep snd
Quote:
snd_ca0106 39968 1
snd_intel8x0 37532 3
snd_ac97_codec 112292 2 snd_ca0106,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 46336 0
snd_mixer_oss 22656 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 82948 4 snd_ca0106,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 10756 0
snd_seq_oss 37760 0
snd_seq_midi 14336 0
snd_rawmidi 29696 2 snd_ca0106,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 15104 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 56880 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 29704 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14988 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 62628 19 snd_ca0106,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd _seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
ac97_bus 9856 1 snd_ac97_codec
soundcore 15200 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 16904 3 snd_ca0106,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
lshw
Quote:
*-multimedia

description: Multimedia audio controller

product: CA0106 Soundblaster

vendor: Creative Labs

physical id: 0

bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0

version: 00

width: 32 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: bus_master cap_list

configuration: driver=CA0106 latency=64 maxlatency=20 mingnt=2 module=snd_ca0106

*-multimedia

description: Multimedia audio controller

product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller

vendor: Intel Corporation

physical id: 1e.2

bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.2

version: 03

width: 32 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: bus_master cap_list

configuration: driver=Intel ICH latency=0 module=snd_intel8x0

markush 08-02-2009 02:05 PM
One question: did you run alsaconf (as root)?

Markus

TinGod 08-02-2009 02:10 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by markush (Post 3628673)
One question: did you rund alsaconf (as root)?

Markus
I did not. Is the command just alsaconf?
Thanks.

markush 08-02-2009 04:35 PM
alsaconf is a script, originaly by Suse but also running for example on slackware.
alsaconf sets up your sound-device.
In the earlier days of alsa it was necessary to run this script by hand, but in these days in most distros alsaconf runs while installation and one would not run it by hand.
But since I don't know if mint sets up alsa while installation I would suggest to try it.

Markus

TinGod 08-02-2009 09:07 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by markush (Post 3628782)
alsaconf is a script, originaly by Suse but also running for example on slackware.
alsaconf sets up your sound-device.
In the earlier days of alsa it was necessary to run this script by hand, but in these days in most distros alsaconf runs while installation and one would not run it by hand.
But since I don't know if mint sets up alsa while installation I would suggest to try it.

Markus
When I try to run alsaconf or sudo alsaconf, it returns "alsaconf: command not found" Is there something else I should try?

TinGod 08-02-2009 10:28 PM
Update:

1. I got Rhythmbox to work by deleting incompatible audio files.
2. I disabled the onboard soundchip in BIOS and now
Quote:
cat /proc/asound/cards
only lists Sound Blaster Live 7.1.
3. I added myself to the audio group.

4. Still no sound.


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