Slackware 14.2 -current Wifi adapter and sound bug.

drigohighlander · 06-08-2016, 08:46 AM

Hi everyone, I don't know where to report what I think its a bug, so, I think its ok to post here.

After I installed the Slackware 14.2 -current some months ago, I guess I installed it five months ago (new installation, and upgraded everytime since then), I noticied some weird things. Everything was working in Slackware 14.1. I'm telling it now because I don't know where to tell it, and as Slackware 14.2 seems to be release at any momment, I need to tell it.

To listen some audio, I use a sterio fone, and the cable is kind short, everytime I make some movement with my head the cable reach its maximum, its connection is lost (I think), I have visible sound in my Xfce, but I can't hear anything, so I have to reset pulseaudio to get audio back (without touch the plug). I know its not a problem with my fone, because I tested it with another one, and get the same thing(error). I use the fone in the front panel audio output of my CPU. If I'm watching some video in youtube, or listening anything in Mplayer, and I unplug the fone, and plug it again, I got no sound, I have to restart pulseaudio too. So I think its a problem with pulseaudio...I don't know..

The another problem is with my wifi adapters, I have three wifi adapters of different brands. Now that I'm using slackware 14.2 current, after a kernel upgrade (I don't remember which, because its was a long time ago), two of three adapters doenst work anymore. After the one before the last one kernel upgrade, I think the kernel 4.4.11, they start to work again, but now, after the last update kernel 4.4.12 they doens't work anymore.

Sorry my bad english

Richard Cranium · 06-09-2016, 08:32 PM

OK, I just tested this on my -current machine (current as of today's stuff).

I'll admit that pulseaudio didn't work as I would have expected.

I started listening to something on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xjir3YSUA8) using my Logitech H600 headset that uses a USB dongle to connect. I unplugged the dongle and sound went to my speakers. OK, that makes sense.

I plugged the dongle back in. Sound did not come from my speakers. OK. Sound did *not* come out of my headset. Hmm.

I had the pulseaudio mixer plugin up already. I watched my H600 disappear when I unplugged the USB dongle and reappear when I plugged it back in. I had to select the "set as fallback" button, unplug the dongle and plug it back in a second time to have sound come back via the headset.

Since I had "set as fallback" from the beginning, I would have thought that sound would have re-connected automatically.

montagdude · 06-09-2016, 09:23 PM

I've had some issues too with sound outputs not being automatically detected with pulseaudio, but not just on Slackware. This is mainly just with HDMI for me (my only real use case for this kind of thing). But, since HDMI video output autodetection also can be flaky, I just made a script that I always run before connecting or disconnecting the HDMI cable. It just runs some xrandr and pacmd commands to set the outputs correctly. Works well enough for me.

drigohighlander · 06-10-2016, 09:20 AM

The Slackware Current defaults installation, doenst have a pulseaudio mixer plugin, and if it doenst work as it shold be with the very old p2 plugin of every fone, it will not work with anything else.
That needed to work by default, without any effort.
The Slackware 14.1 worked well, the wifi adaptors worked well too, I really think it needs to be scaleted to the dev team.

Ilgar · 06-12-2016, 01:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drigohighlander

the wifi adaptors worked well too, I really think it needs to be scaleted to the dev team.

You didn't tell which cards/chipsets stopped working. The developers can't do much without that knowledge

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Richard Cranium · 06-12-2016, 06:42 AM

Code:

doenst have a pulseaudio mixer plugin

It most certainly does have one.

pavucontrol-3.0-x86_64-1.txz

drigohighlander · 06-12-2016, 09:39 AM

Hi, I installed pavucontrol, but the problem still appear, when I unplug and plug again my p2 plug of my fone, in the front panel, I got no sound from my fone, even seeing it in pavucontrol, I got no sound, no matter what I do, pavucontrol show me that there is sound in my fone, but I got nothing, The only solution is to kill pulseaudio, and set it on again.

About the wifi adapters, with this last kernel upgrade 4.4.13, all of them start to work again.

Sorry my bad english.

Richard Cranium · 06-12-2016, 01:25 PM

What is a "p2 plug of my fone"?

drigohighlander · 06-12-2016, 01:33 PM

Sorry, its the stereo phone plug.
See the picture:
http://mlb-s2-p.mlstatic.com/cod0302...4_112015-O.jpg

I thought was the same name in your country.

Richard Cranium · 06-13-2016, 10:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drigohighlander

Sorry, its the stereo phone plug.
See the picture:
http://mlb-s2-p.mlstatic.com/cod0302...4_112015-O.jpg

I thought was the same name in your country.

It probably is, but I've been using bluetooth for a while.

I can try plugging and unplugging one of those in my test laptop later today to see what happens. (I think I've got one of those around here...)

drigohighlander · 06-14-2016, 11:11 AM

So, will Slackware 14.2 released with this pulseaudio bug out of the box?

Richard Cranium · 06-14-2016, 11:55 AM

I forgot to try the test last night. I'll do it tonight when I get back from work.

Richard Cranium · 06-14-2016, 07:40 PM

OK, I did the same test as I did earlier only with a pair of sony earbuds plugged into my laptop's speaker plug.

Note that these are headphone only earbuds; no microphone.

Once I unmuted the headphones, I was able to plug, unplug, plug, unplug, etc. The earbuds played sound as soon as I plugged them back in every time. It worked better than the logitech wireless headset in that regard.

Code:

cranium@hp635:~$ /sbin/lspci 
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 14h Processor Root Complex
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler [Radeon HD 6310]
00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler HDMI Audio
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 42)
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:15.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB700/SB800/SB900 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:15.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB700/SB800/SB900 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:15.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB900 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3)
00:16.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:16.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 0 (rev 43)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 6
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 5
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 7
02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5209 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 05)
07:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)

It Works For Me

drigohighlander · 06-14-2016, 08:05 PM

OK, I will reinstall the Slackware current 14.2 and test it, My headphones have only earbuds too, no microfone.

drigohighlander · 06-23-2016, 12:11 AM

http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386

Seems the bug is fixed now, I'm kind happy to read the changelog and see I was not the only one who had this awkward behavior with pulseaudio.

I'm glad to see its fixed now, Slackware rocks.

Thank you everybody.