I'm a newbie to linux. The rig my friend built for me is a strictly linux system (no windows OS virtual or otherwise) The hardware config is as follows:
cpu: unlocked (black) A8-5600K,
mobo: GA-F2A75M-D3H
ram: 2x2 GB Mushkin Blackline 2-channel DDR3
psu: Enermax 485w.
hdd: 1/2 TB Western Digital
dvd-burner: Lite-On (internal)
monitor: Samsung 2233SW
Currently, I have no video and possibly no audio. Internet surfing produces repeated warnings that I need to install the Adobe Flashplayer plugin. Should I be going that route or does debian siduction have other drivers available to enable video.
any assistance greatly appreciated
cmacrider
Are you using siduction?
If so, pls show$ inxi -G
("$" is the symbol for the user prompt, root would be "#")
Flash is not a video-driver!
And if you want to see flash-videos, you need to install a flash-plugin.
Quote from: "cmacrider"...
Currently, I have no video and possibly no audio. Internet surfing produces repeated warnings that I need to install the Adobe Flashplayer plugin.
Apart from what's been said above, how do you surf the internet without video?
It seems I misunderstood what was meant by "video" and you have a working graphical environment, but can't see flash content. Then as towo said, install flash-plugin
# apt-get update && apt-get install flashplugin-nonfreeOnce installed you should follow the update-warning forum and look for flash-update warnings, because this can't be handled by "apt-get dist-upgrade".
Quote from: "cmacrider"...(no windows OS virtual or otherwise) ...
Congratulations and welcome!
@towo: I apologize to all for having begun by double-posting. I think I've proven how green I am.
@michaa7: yes, I'm running siduction rider, dist-upgraded. All appears to be in order.
cam-sr@sidbox: $ inxi -G
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AND] nee ATI Trinity [Redeon HD 7560D]
X-Org: 1.12.4 driver fglrx Resolution: 1920x1080@60.Ohz
GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Versopm: N/A
And then immediately click the "code" thingie again
Then (new line) proceed, adding:
I have installed the flash plugin non-free. Now video works playing a/v files ... but no sound.
I ought to have begun by asking where to get drivers for audio, LAN, USB and mouse.
The last two are both working, but the mouse is jittery.
Audio chipset: Realtek ALC887.
Again I apologize for asking the wrong question first. Will you kindly tell me where to find at least the audio driver?
Thank you all for replying.
cmacrider :D
1st, your fglrx-driver is not installed propperly. How you have installed the driver?
2nd show us the output of
cat /proc/asound/cards
@towo
Thank you very kindly for your time, expertise, and the assistance that you have given me to date.
On your first point (fglrx-driver) I cannot answer at present. For grady had installed it before I took the computer home. I can only say that graphics appear to be working OK.
On your second point: Cam-sr @ sidbox: ~$cat /prac/asound/cards the results are as follows:
0[HDMI] HDA -Intel - HDA ATI HDMI HDA ATI HDMI AT Oxfef44000 IRQ 54
1[Generic ] HDA -Intel - HD -Audio Generic HD - Audio Generic at Oxfef4000 irq 16
I will endeavour to submit the answer to the first question as soon as possible
Again thank you
cmacrider
I would say, you don't want HDMI as output, so you have to generate a
~/.asoundrc where you must set your analouge output as default.
Point 4 in
http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://wiki.siduction.de/index.php%3Ftitle%3DMehrere_Soundkarten_verwalten%234._Zwei_interne_Chips_verwenden_den_gleichen_Treiber#submit
will help you.
Hi,
as I see that google translate isn't very proper in this case (filenames beginning with uper case letters in the translation insteed of lower case ones for example) you may possibly use the original german article for comparision.
http://wiki.siduction.de/index.php?title=Mehrere_Soundkarten_verwalten
greets
ayla
Quote from: "ayla"Hi,
as I see that google translate isn't very proper in this case (filenames beginning with uper case letters in the translation insteed of lower case ones for example) you may possibly use the original german article for comparision.
http://wiki.siduction.de/index.php?title=Mehrere_Soundkarten_verwalten
greets
ayla
+1 indeed
@ Ayla, Piper: We were barely smart enough to catch that upper-case/lower-case glitsch.
So that's not a problem. We've figured out the process (finally, sort of).
We ran the script this morn, and it returned a lot of HDMI mention. It looked unlike the script-run report in the guide towo cited.
So we'll run it again being twice as careful, and hopefully report tomorrow.
Thank you very kindly for the help
cmacrider
@towo:
I'm the one who built cmacrider's computer. You helped me get video working before I handed the machine over to him.
cmacrider is entirely new to *nix.
He has run the script you prescribed (in Point 4).
Rather than "script" we named the script file: "sid.sh"
Output:
root@sidbox:/home/cam-sr# cd /home/cam-sr/Desktop/docs
root@sidbox:/home/cam-sr/Desktop/docs# chmod u+x sid.sh
root@sidbox:/home/cam-sr/Desktop/docs# ./sid.sh
Using sound card: HDMI
pcm.HDMI { type hw; card HDMI; }
ctl.HDMI { type hw; card HDMI; }
pcm.Generic { type hw; card Generic; }
ctl.Generic { type hw; card Generic; }
pcm.!default pcm.HDMI
ctl.!default ctl.HDMI
root@sidbox:/home/cam-sr/Desktop/docs#
He'd be grateful if you'd tell him in simplest terms what he ought to do next.
grady
Hi,
cd into the /home/$USER directory.
touch .asoundrc
kwrite .asoundrc(or use any other editor you prefer).
Insert:
pcm.!default pcm.Generic
ctl.!default ctl.Generic
Save, log out and then log in again or reboot.
This should bring the "normal" (not HDMI) devices to work. Your script now should also show the above output.
edit:
No need to get root for this.
Except: You like to have a system wide configuration. Then you should build (as root) a file /etc/modeprobe.d/sound.conf insteed of this .asoundrc, insert the above, save and reboot.
Greets
ayla
Ayla:
As per you instructions using kwrite I adjusted asoundrc by inserting the following
pcm.!default pcm.Generic
ctl.!default ctl.Generic
Then I subsequently rans ./sid.sh and here is the output.
cam-sr@sidbox:~$ su
Password:
root@sidbox:/home/cam-sr# cd /home/cam-sr/Desktop/docs
root@sidbox:/home/cam-sr/Desktop/docs# chmod u+x sid.sh
root@sidbox:/home/cam-sr/Desktop/docs# ./sid.sh
Using sound card: HDMI
pcm.HDMI { type hw; card HDMI; }
ctl.HDMI { type hw; card HDMI; }
pcm.Generic { type hw; card Generic; }
ctl.Generic { type hw; card Generic; }
pcm.!default pcm.HDMI
ctl.!default ctl.HDMI
root@sidbox:/home/cam-sr/Desktop/docs#
Any further assistance you could give me is greatly appreciated
cmacrider
Hi,
you've logged out and in again or rebootet before running the script?
Give us the output of
cat .asoundrc
please, just to be sure evrything went well.
Sorry, but I have no card with this problem anymore, so I can't test anything. It worked for me a while ago and AFAIK it should still work as described.
Greats
ayla
Edit:
reread your post again. Your filename is asoundrc or .asoundrc?
ayla:
Thank you kindly for your response.
In answer to your first question ... it is .asoundric
The output of cat .asoundrc is as follows:
[code]
cam-sr@sidbox:~$ su
Password:
root@sidbox:/home/cam-sr# cat .asoundrc
pcm.!default pcm.Generic
ctl.!default ctl.Genericroot@sidbox:/home/cam-sr#
[code]
Trusting this is the information you require
Thank you
cmacrider
Code boxes here in the forum (as do quote boxes) should look like this:
whatever content
If you ommit the "/" in the closing tag like the example I copied below from your posting it wont work:
Is this
[code]
cam-sr@sidbox:~$ su
Password:
root@sidbox:/home/cam-sr# cat .asoundrc
pcm.!default pcm.Generic
ctl.!default ctl.Genericroot@sidbox:/home/cam-sr#
[code]
really the content of /home/<user>/.asoundrc ?
Or did you mess up here with the code boxes and c&p?
As to your sound problem, how does /home/<user>/.asoundrc *really* looks like? (Where <user> is your user) And as this is a user file, there is no need to involve root, not for c&p, not for looking, not for editing ;-)
@ cmarider
hmm, because I don't have this chip I can't test it here, but as I was searching the web a while... let's try another way:
rename your .asoundrc to "whatever" so that it gets ignored for now.
Get root.
Open your /etc/modeprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
Insert at the end of the file:
options snd-hda-intel model=generic
Save/exit and reboot.
Run alsamixer and take care nothing relevant for sound output is muted (e.g. pcm s/pdif...)
Muted shows up "MM". Go to the corresponding field by using the cursor keys (also for setting volumelevel) and use "m" to toggle.
Test sound.
hth
ayla
From grady, using cmacrider password.
@ayla:
cmacrider felt that his greenness was causing unnecessary confusion. And he brought his rig back to me. Some comments.
Back a bit, you said you found something not right about fglrx. There is considerable "noise" in the display. But it's usable I hope we can return to this after fixing the no-sound problem.
If I should, I find no .asoundrc folder on the system.
cam-sr@sidbox:~$ cat .asoundrc
pcm.!default pcm.Generic
ctl.!default ctl.Genericcam-sr@sidbox:~$
A popup is asking: do you want KDE to permanently forget about these devices?
QuoteOutput: HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0 (HDMI Audio Output)
Choices are: Y, N, or Manage Devices.
Choosing Manage Devices brings up another window in which are listed some seven audio device choices, of which one is "default" which doesn't work.
Should we perhaps try another of those?
OR:
Shall we proceed with my doing as you wrote on 29/04 ?
grady-for-cmacrider
Hi grady,
as this is the second time the postet .asoundrc looks like this:
Quotepcm.!default pcm.Generic
ctl.!default ctl.Genericcam-sr@sidbox:~$
I like to ask michaa7's question again:
Is this really the output of "cat .asoundrc" (which I couldnt imagine at the first time)? means: Is the red marked end of the line accidently copied to .asoundrc or is it just accidently wrong copied (forgotten CR/LF after "ctl.Generic") in the "code" field?
We may try to proceed in both ways in the first case, but then I would prefer to test one way out before trying another.
Means: remove the red marked end of the line, save/exit and log out/in or reboot. Run your script to see what alsa is using after.
When KDE's question pops up answer "yes", as we try to switch from HDMI to jacks. Then you may try the Test-Button on KDE-Systemsettings/Multimedia/Phonon on the listed devices. If one is working, move it up to the top of the list and check sound.
In the second case, means: output of "cat .asoundrc" looks as it should do, alsamixer isn't muted, but still your script shows "pcm.HDMI" and "ctl.HDMI" as default device and no sound, we may proceed with my above post.
In each case: Check alsamixer and unmute if neccesary.Greets
ayla
(grady here)
@ayla (& michaa7)
Every beginner is a challenge. This is my first experience at trying to be a helper. My friend is a very bright fellow. But he's one of those who can't resist touching every button wondering what it does.
He's monkeyed with the desktop tray; result: minimised pages disappear somewhere I haven't found yet. But I'll ask my local linuxusers' group for help with that.
So the bash console I report from next is bash#3. The first two are "disappeared" :shock:
This is the cat report that appears:
cam-sr@sidbox:~$ cat .asoundrc
pcm.!default pcm.Generic
ctl.!default ctl.Genericcam-sr@sidbox:~$
cam-sr@sidbox:~$
Quoteremove the red marked end of the line, save/exit and log out/in or reboot.
I know how to do that using kwrite. HOWEVER: using "find" in console, I don't find .asoundrc in the system. Am I misunderstanding?
grady
You may use:
find -name .asoundrc
But obviously it's in the directory you were in when you have given the "cat" command, it is -and has to be- the home directory of your user.
".whatever" files are hidden files, you can't see them in dolphin, except you use the option "show hidden files" in there.
Just use kwrite .asoundrc as you have used "cat" and proceed as described.
It must not necessarily be the case that there is the text "ctl.!default ctl.Genericcam-sr@sidbox:~$" written as one line in .asoundrc
I have seen that before especially with kwrite when I saved a file directly after writing the last word, then "cat" showed the file content and directly after the last word the bash prompt without linebreak.
So if the .asoundrc ends with the word "Generic", just add a linefeed pressing enter and save it again.
@ayla:
I was wrong; I beg your pardon.
cam-sr@sidbox:~$ find -name .asoundrc
./.asoundrc
cam-sr@sidbox:~$
cam-sr@sidbox:~$ kwrite .asoundrc
Yields:
pcm.!default pcm.Generic
ctl.!default ctl.Generic
Looking back at the "find -name" reply (./.asoundrc): does that not show that .asoundrc has been put in the root directory (and not in the user directory as it should have been) ?
grady
.asoundrc should be in user home directory (that's why I wrote
"/home/<user>/.asoundrc" which is equivalent to "~/.asoundrc" .
Edit://
(deleted a wrong assumption)
Hi
cal@nescaya:~cal: find -name .asoundrc
./.asoundrc
I'm in my users home and the output above shows up like cmariders.
But:
cal@nescaya:~cal: find .asoundrc
.asoundrc
and thats curious, because if cmariders file would be in the users home it should have shown up too when he used find without the name option.
cal@nescaya:~cal: su
Passwort:
root@nescaya:/home/cal #root: touch /root/.asoundrc
root@nescaya:/home/cal #root: find -name .asoundrc
./.asoundrc #thats the file in users home!
root@nescaya:/home/cal #root: cd /
root@nescaya:/ #root: find -name .asoundrc
./home/cal/.asoundrc
./root/.asoundrc
root@nescaya:/home/cal #root: touch /.asoundrc
root@nescaya:/home/cal #root: cd /
root@nescaya:/ #root: find .asoundrc
.asoundrc
root@nescaya:/ #root: find -name .asoundrc
./home/cal/.asoundrc
./.asoundrc
./root/.asoundrc
Even with su command you stay in the users home and as shown above "find" without other options just looks into the directory it's in but not deeper and not up. With the name option it looks into the directories below, too. And thats more curious, because the file has shown up with the name option but not without it...
So I would suggest to get root, and run again to get clear:
su
Passwort:
cd /
find -name .asoundrc
ok, sorry for the confusion, I was wrong:
Quote~$ ls .asoundrc
.asoundrc
~$ find -name .asoundrc
./.asoundrc
"find" puts a "here in this directory" in front of the file.
To:
devil,
ayla,
der-bud,
michaa7,
mylo,
piper,
towo:
I'd like to apologize for and explain, my, and cmarider's sudden disappearance from this thread.
Only a couple of days after the last post, I got the news that I had a life-threatening health condition that demanded immediate operation. I spent the next six days putting my affairs in order. I had the operation on the seventh. The operation, together with two courses of radiation, took me into a low state for the rest of 2013.
cmarider didn't feel he could carry on the conversation without me. I DID manage to get a friend to set up his video with a vga card.
Now I'm beginning to feel like a new man ! I have crippled computers here, there, everywhere. And lots of siduction questions. I'll hope that you'll consider answering some of them.
You have been very generous with your advice. And I thank you.
grady
There is no problem at all. Glad to hear you recovered after your OP. Feel free to ask whatever you need to know.
@michaa7:
Thank you for your kind reply.
mit freundlichen Grüßen,
grady