Sound server stolen

MarchHare22 · 08-13-2009, 10:11 AM

Applications have become thiefs! When I start an application it takes over the sound and nothing else can play sounds! This is KDE 3.5 and I'm using OSS (The only option that plays sounds) ALSA does not work. I performed alsaconf as root and stored it. But to no avail.

It would be good to note my sound was not always like this, it used to work. I then did a slackpkg update-all and im wondering if this was what broke it. Can someone tell me how I can fix this? Free my applications of the sound monarchy!

dive · 08-13-2009, 11:52 AM

Maybe you need modprobe the correct sound module.

Doing a 'lsmod | grep snd' will show some useful info. Also 'lspci'. It would help us to help you to include a bit more info.

MarchHare22 · 08-13-2009, 01:32 PM

Code:

snd_seq_dummy           6788  0 
snd_seq_oss            33536  0 
snd_seq_midi_event     10240  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                51184  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            40480  0 
snd_mixer_oss          18048  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_usb_audio          82144  1 
snd_usb_lib            18816  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            22944  1 snd_usb_lib
snd_hda_intel         368268  8 
snd_pcm                71172  5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_device         10380  4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer              23304  4 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11528  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep              10884  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel
snd                    52132  25 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore              10208  1 snd

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller

alsaconf gives me the option to install either of those drivers listed above (from lspci). I chose the first and it used to work. Something changed it.

dive · 08-13-2009, 02:47 PM

Sounds like you need to set up aliases for both cards in /etc/modprobe.d/sound

Then you can access either with alsamixer -c <cardnumber>

Examples from mine:

Code:

alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
alias sound-slot-1 snd-ens1371

Of course one problem is that you have two cards which would use the same driver? Not sure how to get around that.

MarchHare22 · 08-13-2009, 05:25 PM

dive ty for pointing that out. That was my problem two different modules were being loaded. One was for a CARD and the other was for a DEVICE. In my /etc/modprobe.d/sound as I said it was loading two modules, the first being the one I did not want. The second was correct. I commented out the first line and sound is back and working. I must have ran alsaconf and chose the second one which was told to load as well, It did not erase a old module entry.

Anyways thanks for the idea.