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No sound with Flash Player in Firefox after adding NVIDIA GT 220 graphics card

Hi folks
Am running Slackware64 current with no problems, except I get no sound with Flash Player in Firefox. I can play CDs and DVDs and also can hear KDE system notifications. Have had this problem since adding my new Nvidia GT220 graphics card. Also if I use the "play" command I get no sound with error message below

Code:

$ play /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav 

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

play FAIL formats: can't open output file `default': snd_pcm_open error: No such file or directory

If I run "alsamixer" I get a screen that says "This sound device does not have any controls". It reports that the card is "HDA NVidia" and the chip "Nvidia ID a". If I select sound card with F6 key, then I can chose between "HDA NVidia" and "HDA VIA VT82xx". If I chose "HDA VIA", then a normal alsamixer screen appears with all the channels except "PCM".
Here are the outputs from various commands:-

Code:

# lspci | grep Audio

02:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) (rev 10)



$ aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 1: VT82xx [HDA VIA VT82xx], device 0: ALC660-VD Analog [ALC660-VD Analog]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: VT82xx [HDA VIA VT82xx], device 1: ALC660-VD Digital [ALC660-VD Digital]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0





$ aplay -L

null

    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

default:CARD=VT82xx

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Analog

    Default Audio Device

front:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Analog

    Front speakers

surround40:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Analog

    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers

surround41:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Analog

    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround50:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Analog

    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers

surround51:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Analog

    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround71:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Analog

    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers

iec958:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Digital

    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

Regards
Phil

Maybe some other program has locked the audio device. Is anything running in background?

Quote:

Originally Posted by ~sHyLoCk~ (Post 3979443)

Maybe some other program has locked the audio device. Is anything running in background?

Not that I know of. This is just a Desktop system and the the problem is always there, even straight after a reboot. I have installed Slackware 13.0 on a spare partition and everything works. Here's the output of ps ax command - I can't see anything strange there

Code:

$ ps ax

  PID TTY      STAT  TIME COMMAND

    1 ?        Ss    0:00 init [4]  

    2 ?        S      0:00 [kthreadd]

    3 ?        S      0:00 [migration/0]

    4 ?        S      0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]

    5 ?        S      0:00 [watchdog/0]

    6 ?        S      0:00 [migration/1]

    7 ?        S      0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]

    8 ?        S      0:00 [watchdog/1]

    9 ?        S      0:00 [events/0]

  10 ?        S      0:00 [events/1]

  11 ?        S      0:00 [khelper]

  31 ?        S      0:00 [netns]

  34 ?        S      0:00 [async/mgr]

  35 ?        S      0:00 [pm]

  243 ?        S      0:00 [sync_supers]

  245 ?        S      0:00 [bdi-default]

  247 ?        S      0:00 [kblockd/0]

  248 ?        S      0:00 [kblockd/1]

  250 ?        S      0:00 [kacpid]

  251 ?        S      0:00 [kacpi_notify]

  252 ?        S      0:00 [kacpi_hotplug]

  384 ?        S      0:00 [ata/0]

  385 ?        S      0:00 [ata/1]

  386 ?        S      0:00 [ata_aux]

  387 ?        S      0:00 [ksuspend_usbd]

  392 ?        S      0:00 [khubd]

  395 ?        S      0:00 [kseriod]

  431 ?        S      0:00 [rpciod/0]

  432 ?        S      0:00 [rpciod/1]

  460 ?        S      0:00 [khungtaskd]

  461 ?        S      0:00 [kswapd0]

  511 ?        S      0:00 [aio/0]

  512 ?        S      0:00 [aio/1]

  535 ?        S      0:00 [nfsiod]

  546 ?        S      0:00 [jfsIO]

  547 ?        S      0:00 [jfsCommit]

  548 ?        S      0:00 [jfsCommit]

  549 ?        S      0:00 [jfsSync]

  557 ?        S      0:00 [xfs_mru_cache]

  558 ?        S      0:00 [xfslogd/0]

  559 ?        S      0:00 [xfslogd/1]

  560 ?        S      0:00 [xfsdatad/0]

  561 ?        S      0:00 [xfsdatad/1]

  562 ?        S      0:00 [xfsconvertd/0]

  563 ?        S      0:00 [xfsconvertd/1]

  566 ?        S      0:00 [ocfs2_wq]

  567 ?        S      0:00 [o2quot/0]

  568 ?        S      0:00 [o2quot/1]

  572 ?        S      0:00 [user_dlm]

  577 ?        S      0:00 [glock_workqueue]

  578 ?        S      0:00 [glock_workqueue]

  579 ?        S      0:00 [delete_workqueu]

  580 ?        S      0:00 [delete_workqueu]

  584 ?        S<    0:00 [kslowd000]

  585 ?        S<    0:00 [kslowd001]

  587 ?        S      0:00 [crypto/0]

  588 ?        S      0:00 [crypto/1]

  859 ?        S      0:00 [cciss_scan]

  865 ?        S      0:00 [scsi_tgtd/0]

  866 ?        S      0:00 [scsi_tgtd/1]

  880 ?        S      0:00 [iscsi_eh]

  888 ?        S      0:00 [fc_exch_workque]

  889 ?        S      0:00 [fc_rport_eq]

  890 ?        S<    0:00 [fcoethread/0]

  891 ?        S<    0:00 [fcoethread/1]

  894 ?        S      0:00 [fnic_event_wq]

  912 ?        S      0:00 [hpsa_scan]

  948 ?        S      0:00 [scsi_eh_0]

  951 ?        S      0:00 [scsi_eh_1]

 1001 ?        S      0:00 [scsi_eh_2]

 1004 ?        S      0:00 [scsi_eh_3]

 1017 ?        S      0:00 [exec-osm/0]

 1018 ?        S      0:00 [exec-osm/1]

 1024 ?        S      0:00 [block-osm/0]

 1025 ?        S      0:00 [block-osm/1]

 1094 ?        S      0:00 [kstriped]

 1096 ?        S      0:00 [ksnapd]

 1143 ?        S      0:00 [scsi_eh_4]

 1144 ?        S      0:00 [usb-storage]

 1149 ?        S      0:00 [jbd2/sdb1-8]

 1150 ?        S      0:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit]

 1151 ?        S      0:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit]

 1183 ?        S<s    0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon

 1443 ?        S      0:00 [usbhid_resumer]

 1462 ?        S      0:00 [kpsmoused]

 1483 ?        S      0:00 [hd-audio0]

 1510 ?        S      0:00 [hd-audio1]

 1547 ?        S      0:00 [flush-8:16]

 1610 ?        S      0:00 [jbd2/sdb5-8]

 1611 ?        S      0:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit]

 1612 ?        S      0:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit]

 1613 ?        S      0:00 [kjournald]

 1614 ?        S      0:00 [jbd2/sdb8-8]

 1615 ?        S      0:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit]

 1616 ?        S      0:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit]

 1619 ?        Ss    0:00 /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /win7 -v -o rw,umask=022

 1622 ?        Ss    0:00 /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sdb4 /back-up -v -o rw,umask=022

 1649 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd

 1653 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -c 3 -x

 1781 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd

 1788 ?        S<    0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon

 1789 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd

 1796 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid

 1807 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system

 1812 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes

 1813 ?        S      0:00 hald-runner

 1835 ?        S      0:01 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event1 /dev/inpu

 1849 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdd (every 2 sec)

 1850 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sde (every 2 sec)

 1851 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdf (every 2 sec)

 1853 ?        S      0:01 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec)

 1854 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdc (every 2 sec)

 1856 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket

 1890 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

 1895 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -l10

 1897 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/sbin/atd -b 15 -l 1

 1903 ?        S<    0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon

 1912 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2

 1914 tty6    Ss+    0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

 1915 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon

 1917 tty7    Ss+    2:39 /usr/bin/X -br -novtswitch -quiet -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-zqENnb

 1924 ?        S      0:00 -:0                  

 1930 ?        S      0:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch 559cb438ed6cb9b42253f9550000000d --binary-syntax --close-stderr

 1931 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session

 1939 ?        Sl    0:00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon

 2009 ?        Ss    0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkde

 2065 ?        S      0:00 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session

 2066 ?        Ss    0:18 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session

 2073 ?        S      0:00 /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/start_kdeinit +kcminit_startup

 2074 ?        Ss    0:00 kdeinit4: kdeinit4 Running...                  

 2075 ?        S      0:00 kdeinit4: klauncher [kdeinit] --fd=9          

 2077 ?        S      0:00 kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]                      

 2079 ?        S      0:00 /usr/libexec/gam_server

 2103 ?        S      0:00 kwrapper4 ksmserver

 2104 ?        Sl    0:00 kdeinit4: ksmserver [kdeinit]                  

 2106 ?        S      2:59 kwin -session 10dd616666000127257223900000025530000_1274626328_136128

 2108 ?        S      0:00 kdeinit4: kglobalaccel [kdeinit]              

 2111 ?        Sl    0:00 /usr/bin/knotify4

 2112 ?        S      1:26 kdeinit4: plasma-desktop [kdeinit]            

 2121 ?        S      0:00 kdeinit4: kaccess [kdeinit]                    

 2128 ?        Sl    0:00 kdeinit4: kxkb [kdeinit]                      

 2131 ?        Sl    0:00 kdeinit4: nepomukserver [kdeinit]              

 2134 ?        Sl    1:04 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukstorage

 2135 ?        Sl    0:03 kdeinit4: krunner [kdeinit]                    

 2143 ?        Sl    1:19 /usr/bin/virtuoso-t +foreground +configfile /tmp/virtuoso_hX2134.ini +wait

 2150 ?        S      0:00 kdeinit4: kmix [kdeinit] -session 10dd616666000127257224400000025530010_1274626328_112623

 2154 ?        S      0:00 /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 -session 10dd61666600012725722440000

 2157 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukontologyloader

 2158 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukqueryservice

 2159 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukremovablestorageservice

 2160 ?        SNl    1:42 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukstrigiservice

 2161 ?        Sl    0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukfilewatch

 2170 ?        S      0:00 /usr/libexec/polkitd

 2174 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/blueman-applet

 2187 ?        S      0:00 kdeinit4: klipper [kdeinit]                    

 2195 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/korgac -icon korgac

 2202 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/obex-data-server --no-daemon 

 2276 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/firefox

 2289 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6.3/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6.3/firefox-bin

 2293 ?        Sl    10:13 /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6.3/firefox-bin

 2468 ?        S      0:00 kdeinit4: kio_file [kdeinit] file local:/tmp/ksocket-philbev/klauncherMT2075.slave-socket loca

 2580 ?        Sl    0:08 konsole -e /bin/bash -l

 2620 pts/2    Ss    0:00 /bin/bash -l

 3223 pts/2    R+    0:00 ps ax

Regards
Phil

I'm guessing that your new nVidia card has support for HDMI or some other standard and thus contains an internal sound card as well, and this is getting priority. Are you planning on using the nVidia sound or do you want to stick with the old card (which I would guess is integrated on your motherboard, but that doesn't matter)? I could also be misreading this...it would also be possible for an nVidia HDA intel card to be integrated on your motherboard with an additional VIA sound card...but since this problem started when adding the graphics card I would guess not.

The easy way is to try to run alsaconf as root followed by alsamixer as your regular user (and then `alsactl store` as root if you wish). This may setup the cards properly, and I believe you can select the card to setup in alsaconf (assuming you will only be using one...if not then you may have to play around with /etc/modprobe.d/sound[.conf] manually). You can try to see if something else is using the audio device as ~sHyLoCk~ suggested but based on your error I don't think that would be it. However the following commands would tell you and certainly couldn't hurt:

Code:

$ fuser /dev/snd/

$ fuser /dev/dsp

I can't offer much help other than the fact that I've got a P55-based motherboard with a GT220. The sound capabilities of the video card are detected, but the on-board Intel audio works fine. It works fine with the stock Slackware64 kernel and 2.6.32.7 which I compiled using the .config that was a part of -current at the time.

As far as I know Flash only outputs sound to the default ALSA device, which is usually the first detected by ALSA. One way (and the only that worked reliably for me when i used 2 sound cards) of setting another device as default is in a ~/.asoundrc file. You will probably have to create the file as it is not normally used.

Code:

pcm.!default {

type hw

card 1

}



ctl.!default {

type hw

card 1

}

These might need changing depending on your cards.

aplay -l will list all configured ALSA sound devices on your machine, which I see you have done.

you are a member of the audio group? type groups as a normal user to see if you are or not.

if not, gpasswd -a $USER audio and reboot your machine. :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by phi11ip (Post 3979361)

Code:

$ play /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav 

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

play FAIL formats: can't open output file `default': snd_pcm_open error: No such file or directory

Code:

# lspci | grep Audio

02:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) (rev 10)



$ aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 1: VT82xx [HDA VIA VT82xx], device 0: ALC660-VD Analog [ALC660-VD Analog]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: VT82xx [HDA VIA VT82xx], device 1: ALC660-VD Digital [ALC660-VD Digital]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0





$ aplay -L

null

    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

default:CARD=VT82xx

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Analog

    Default Audio Device

front:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Analog

    Front speakers

surround40:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Analog

    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers

surround41:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Analog

    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround50:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Analog

    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers

surround51:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Analog

    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround71:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Analog

    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers

iec958:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0

    HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC660-VD Digital

    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

Regards
Phil

Well, Linux see the HDMI audio support from modern video-cards as an audio card. I think that your Linux, now make mistakes about WHERE is the real audio card.

If you don't use HDMI audio (i.e. you don't connect an HDTV TV set to PC), I think that you should disable the audio support on your video driver (kernel module) and everything will be fine.

Quote:

Originally Posted by phi11ip (Post 3979361)

<snip>

Code:

<snip>

$ aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 1: VT82xx [HDA VIA VT82xx], device 0: ALC660-VD Analog [ALC660-VD Analog]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: VT82xx [HDA VIA VT82xx], device 1: ALC660-VD Digital [ALC660-VD Digital]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

<snip>

Regards
Phil

I see your sound card appears as card 1 . I have a nasty feeling Flash is trying to send it's sound to card 0 (the null alsa device perhaps?) even though the VT82xx is the default according to aplay -L. You may have to specifically set it as the default, either in ~/.asoundrc as I mentioned above, or some other way

PS more about setting default alsa device here: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/FAQ026

Quote:

Originally Posted by JokerBoy (Post 3979753)

if not, gpasswd -a $USER audio and reboot your machine. :)

He wouldn't need to reboot. Logging out and logging back in would do.

Thanks everybody for the replies, but my eternal thanks goes to Eternal_Newbie for the correct solution. Creating a ~/.asoundrc file without any modifications did the trick. Yup T3slider you guessed correctly that my graphics card has HDMI capabilities which currently I don't wish to use. Once again THANKS to all.

Regards
Phil

Quote:

Originally Posted by phi11ip (Post 3980470)

i had the same problem!! same solution too!!! thanks Eternal_Newbie

Hi!
I'm in the exact same situation! Except the solution don't work...=(
I do have sound from one application at the time(except Flash, I don't get anything, anytime).
Before I added the GT 220 card, I had sound from different application, no problem. Now, I one get sound from one at the time.

This aplay -l

Code:

 aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 0: Intel ICH [NVidia CK804]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 2: Intel ICH - IEC958 [NVidia CK804 - IEC958]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

This is cat /proc/asound/cards

Code:

 cat /proc/asound/cards 

 0 [NVidia        ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

                      HDA NVidia at 0xe4000000 irq 18

 1 [CK804          ]: NFORCE - NVidia CK804

                      NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at irq 22

An this is my .asoundrc

Code:

cat .asoundrc

pcm.!default {

type hw

card CK804

}



ctl.!default {

type hw

card CK804

}

Hmm... Does this make any sense to anyone?

Well, the modern video-cards have an little audio support built-in, for HDMI. In some cases, ALSA misunderstand where is the 'main' sound hardware. Try to disable the audio support of your video-card if you do not use HDMI or try to properly configure ALSA for these two 'sound-cards'...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jorek (Post 4098728)

Hi!

An this is my .asoundrc

Code:

cat .asoundrc

pcm.!default {

type hw

card CK804

}



ctl.!default {

type hw

card CK804

}

Hmm... Does this make any sense to anyone?

My .asoundrc looks like:

Code:

pcm.!default {

type hw

card 1

}



ctl.!default {

type hw

card 1

}

Maybe changing card CK804 to card 1 will help. Not sure if CK804 is a valid entry

Regards
Phil