[EN] [Solved] No sound

[effo]

Hi,
I'm setting up siduction on a new box. Most things work well but I can't get sound working.

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effo@siductionbox:~$ lspci -nn | grep -i audio
00:01.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity HDMI Audio Controller [1002:9902]
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller [1022:780d] (rev 01)


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effo@siductionbox:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [HDMI           ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
                      HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfeb44000 irq 58
 1 [Generic        ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
                      HD-Audio Generic at 0xfeb40000 irq 16


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effo@siductionbox:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

In KDE Multimedia settings I have tested all devices but no luck. Backend VLC. GStreamer is installed too but I never tried that.

Any ideas on how to solve this...?

[devil]

did you look at a mixer, like pavucontrol? your system uses pulseaudio, so pavucontrol or veromix are better suited than kmix. Make sure nothing is muted.


greetz
devil

[effo]

I installed pavucontrol but when I run it I get


"Connection to PulseAudio failed. Automatic retry in 5s


In this case this is likely because PULSE_SERVER in the Environment/X11 Root Window Properties
or default-server in client.conf is misconfigured".


Reboot, but still the same.


BTW, I doesn't seem to have pulseaudio installed...

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root@siductionbox:/home/effo# dpkg -l | grep puls
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64                               5.0-6                               amd64        PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii  libpulse0:amd64                                             5.0-6                               amd64        PulseAudio client libraries
ii  vlc-plugin-pulse                                            2.2.0~pre2-4                        all          transitional dummy package for vlc


[michaa7]

...
BTW, I doesn't seem to have pulseaudio installed...

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root@siductionbox:/home/effo# dpkg -l | grep puls
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64                               5.0-6                               amd64        PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii  libpulse0:amd64                                             5.0-6                               amd64        PulseAudio client libraries
ii  vlc-plugin-pulse                                            2.2.0~pre2-4                        all          transitional dummy package for vlc


It seems like you failed to install it completely.

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# apt-cache show libpulse0


[effo]

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effo@siductionbox:~$ apt-cache show libpulse0
Package: libpulse0
Source: pulseaudio
Version: 5.0-6
Installed-Size: 871
Maintainer: Pulseaudio maintenance team <pkg-pulseaudio-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libasyncns0 (>= 0.3), libc6 (>= 2.15), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.1.1), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libjson-c2 (>= 0.10), libsm6, libsndfile1 (>= 1.0.20), libsystemd-id128-0 (>= 38), libsystemd-journal0 (>= 183), libwrap0 (>= 7.6-4~), libx11-6, libx11-xcb1, libxcb1, libxtst6
Pre-Depends: multiarch-support                                                                                                                                                                                         
Suggests: pulseaudio                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Breaks: pavucontrol (<< 0.9.8)                                                                                                                                                                                         
Description-en: PulseAudio client libraries                                                                                                                                                                           
 PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and
 WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with
 much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.
 .
 Client libraries used by applications that access a PulseAudio sound server
 via PulseAudio's native interface.
Description-md5: 35e72b270b48ab0d62d3de88ca26f71b
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://www.pulseaudio.org
Tag: implemented-in::c, role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pulseaudio/libpulse0_5.0-6_amd64.deb
Size: 251800
MD5sum: 70f606bbd8d1c36a55830f400e092975
SHA1: 54cc2d63baa2a00495ab87a116da1638d97068fb
SHA256: 8b0749d4af98ff1b512679c824835a10a2ce153321186dc9b758866a43ba324f

So it doesn't require pulseaudio.. Shall I apt-get it?

[michaa7]

I don't use it, so dunno. But as you like to use it (and may people account it for a good piece of SW) why don't you give it a try.

On the other hand, still we don't know whether or not the output is muted. So open a VT (virtual terminal) and open "alsamixer". It works without pulseaudio. Look for muted devices, especially master and pcm. And if not, give gstreamer a try.

[effo]

I installed Pulseaudio and now sound seem to work. Thanks for helping me