[PlanetCCRMA] no recording sound on fc1
Carl Bolstad
Carl Bolstad <carl.bolstad@gmail.com>
Fri Nov 12 23:16:01 2004
Hello List!
I am a newbie Linux user (since about a year ago), and a few months
ago I downloaded the Planet CCRMA fc1 disks and installed the system
from scratch. I printed out the ccrma install instruction pages and
kept notes on what I did. So far, I have been unable to get any of the
audio applications to work, however. They install OK, and they seem to
run, but I can't get any sound into them. For instance, I was trying
to record from a stereo tape player into Ardour, but I can't get
Ardour to register any sound coming in. I checked the output from the
tape with headphones, and it seems ok.
It took me a while to get jack to start. I had to run the ALSA
soundcard detection script several times; each time it seemed to work,
but there were always modules missing or something, and there was no
sound. Now I've succeeded in getting some sound on my system, and jack
will start, though I'm still not sure it's doing what it should. I
just know that Ardour will start up, now.
Here's the latest output from starting jack:
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[~/Sound Files]$ cat jack.messages
back from read, ret = 1 errno == Success
jackd 0.99.0
Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
loading driver ..
apparent rate = 44099
creating alsa driver ... hw|hw|1024|2|44099|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
configuring for 44099Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods
Couldn't open hw for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open hw for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
Couldn't open hw for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open hw for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
jackd watchdog: timeout - killing jackd
[~/Sound Files]$
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I know 44099 Hz is kind of weird, but it used to give me an error
message about 44100 Hz not matching 44099 Hz, so I thought I would try
requesting 44099 in the first place (since nothing was working
anyway...).
The root of the problem may in fact be with the ALSA drivers, because
whenever I boot up the system, I get error messages like the following
emailed to root:
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--------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------
WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
I/O error: dev 08:00, sect...: 5Time(s)
sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sect...: 5Time(s)
microcode: Error in the microcode...: 1Time(s)
microcode: error! Bad data in mic...: 1Time(s)
---------------------- Kernel End -------------------------
--------------------- ModProbe Begin ------------------------
Can't locate these modules:
sound-service-1-0: 4 Time(s)
snd-seq-client-62: 1 Time(s)
sound-slot-1: 4 Time(s)
char-major-188: 2 Time(s)
---------------------- ModProbe End -------------------------
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Seems like there were a few times when only the 'snd-seq-client-62'
line was not located, but of course, still no sound applications
worked. Usually, the system has sound in general - it does a harp-type
sound when I open an application, and a zip-bang thing when one
closes. Although yesterday it was totally silent, and the soundcard
detection app (under system settings) said that no soundcard was
detected. Today there is sound, but I'm having more and more problems
with the machine completely freezing up. I had to boot three times
today because the first two froze. The second time, it froze up just
as the "startup sound" started when I logged in.
I just recently installed the Audacity sound editor, and I think it's
all I would need, if I could get it to work (I just want to be able to
cut unwanted parts from recordings, really). It starts up just fine,
but it doesn't register any sound input, either.
Here are the latest Audacity messages, last time I tried it, after
failing with jack and Ardour:
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[~/Sound Files]$ audacity
PortAudio: read interrupted!
PortAudio: read interrupted!
[~/Sound Files]$
[~/Sound Files]$ cat ardour.messages
Loading UI configuration file /etc/ardour/ardour_ui.rc
Signal 2 received
[~/Sound Files]$
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So I don't know if it's the kernel modules, or jack, or the sound card
(Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371), or me not really knowing what I'm doing!
;-)
Here's more stuff:
[~/Sound Files]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [AudioPCI ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xdcc0, irq 9
[~/Sound Files]$
[~/Sound Files]$ lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 45160 0 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 16728 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
binfmt_misc 7816 1
snd-seq-midi 5152 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 6272 0 [snd-seq-midi]
snd-seq 49744 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-ens1371 17540 1
snd-pcm 85984 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1371]
snd-timer 20996 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc 9304 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi 19520 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371]
snd-seq-device 6220 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
gameport 3380 0 [snd-ens1371]
snd-ac97-codec 63464 0 [snd-ens1371]
snd 48708 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss
snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore 6660 6 [snd]
parport_pc 19172 1 (autoclean)
lp 9060 0 (autoclean)
parport 37792 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13748 0 (autoclean) (unused)
3c59x 30032 1
ipt_state 1048 2 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2444 1 (autoclean)
iptable_nat 23000 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_conntrack 31560 0 (autoclean) [ipt_state iptable_nat]
ip_tables 15872 5 [ipt_state iptable_filter iptable_nat]
sr_mod 18168 0 (autoclean)
microcode 5956 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 12240 0
ide-cd 36128 0
cdrom 34048 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
nls_iso8859-1 3516 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5148 2 (autoclean)
vfat 13228 2 (autoclean)
fat 40312 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
sg 37772 0 (autoclean)
sd_mod 13420 0 (autoclean)
usb-storage 77024 0
scsi_mod 109944 5 [sr_mod ide-scsi sg sd_mod usb-storage]
keybdev 3136 0 (unused)
mousedev 5620 1
hid 24996 0 (unused)
input 5856 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 27372 0 (unused)
usbcore 81408 1 [usb-storage hid usb-uhci]
ext3 74052 2
jbd 54548 2 [ext3]
[~/Sound Files]$
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I'm sorry if this email has gotten a little long and ramble-y. Anyone
know what I need to do to record sounds?
Thanks!
Carl Bolstad