[PlanetCCRMA] Installed planetccrma: now no sound (ens1370)

[Peter Baker (CMIS, St Lucia)]

Hi Marcelo

I did check that first as it happened to me a long long time ago -
pity it doesn't seem that simple this time

Thanks

Cheers
Peter

Dr Peter Baker, Statistician (Bioinformatics/Genetics),
CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences, Queensland Bioscience Precinct
306 Carmody Road, St Lucia Qld 4067.   Australia.
Email: <Peter.Baker at csiro.au>  WWW: http://www.cmis.csiro.au/Peter.Baker/
Phone: +61 7 3214 2210         Fax: +61 7 3214 2900


On Wed, 25 May 2005, M. Perticone wrote:

> well, this may sound a bit dumb, but did you check the mixer's levels? it
> happened to me, as i didn't know that alsa resets everything to zero by
> default.
> hope it helps,
> marcelo
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Baker (CMIS, St Lucia)" <Peter.Baker at csiro.au>
> To: "PlanetCCRMA email list" <PlanetCCRMA at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> Cc: "Peter Baker" <keys_sax at tpg.com.au>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:13 AM
> Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] Installed planetccrma: now no sound (ens1370)
>
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I've bitten the bullet and finally installed latest planetccrma for FC3
>>
>> I did the same for FC1 a year ago and that seemed to work but I didn't
>> test it much
>>
>> Now the sound has disappeared altogether after working just fine for
>> CD/MP3 on latest FC3 kernel.  It looks like everything is fine, there
>> is no sound
>>
>> Suggestions welcome
>>
>> Cheers
>> Peter
>>
>> --
>> Dr Peter Baker, Statistician (Bioinformatics/Genetics),
>> CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences, Queensland Bioscience Precinct
>> 306 Carmody Road, St Lucia Qld 4067.   Australia.
>> Email: <Peter.Baker at csiro.au>  WWW: http://www.cmis.csiro.au/Peter.Baker/
>> Phone: +61 7 3214 2210         Fax: +61 7 3214 2900
>>
>>
>> Details:
>>
>>
>> [peteb at pianoman ~]$ uname -a
>> Linux pianoman 2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc3.ccrmasmp #1 SMP Thu Dec 30 03:42:15 EST
> 2004
>> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> or the same if I use the non smp kernel
>>
>> TRIED PLAYING AROUND WITH alsamixer as root and user but no change
>>
>> [root at pianoman drivers]# service alsasound restart
>> Shutting down sound driver                                 [  OK  ]
>> Starting sound driver snd-ens1370                          [  OK  ]
>> Starting sound driver snd-ens1370                          [  OK  ]
>> Starting sequencer                                         [  OK  ]
>> Starting sequencer driver snd-seq-midi                     [  OK  ]
>> Restoring sound driver settings /usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1272: No
>> soundcards found...
>>                                                            [FAILED]
>> BUT IF I REPEAT THIS A FEW TIMES it doesn't complain
>>
>> [root at pianoman drivers]# lspci
>> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge
> (rev
>> 03)
>> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge
> (rev 03)
>> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
>> 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
>> 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
>> 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
>> 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] (rev 01)
>> 00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c810 (rev 23)
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200 AGP (rev
> 01)
>>
>> [root at pianoman drivers]#  rpm -qa | sort | grep alsa
>> alsa-driver-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
>> alsa-firmware-1.0.8-1.rhfc3.ccrma
>> alsa-lib-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
>> alsa-lib-devel-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
>> alsa-oss-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
>> alsa-patch-bay-1.0.0-1.rhfc1.ccrma
>> alsaplayer-0.99.76-3.rhfc3.ccrma
>> alsaplayer-devel-0.99.76-3.rhfc3.ccrma
>> alsa-tools-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
>> alsa-utils-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
>> balsa-2.2.4-1.FC3.1
>> clalsadrv-1.0.1-1.rhfc3.ccrma
>> kernel-module-alsa-2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc3.ccrma-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
>> kernel-module-alsa-2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc3.ccrmasmp-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
>>
>> [root at pianoman drivers]# cat /proc/asound/cards
>> 0 [AudioPCI       ]: ENS1370 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
>>                      Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1370 at 0xe400, irq 169
>>
>> [root at pianoman drivers]# cat /proc/asound/devices
>>   8: [0- 0]: raw midi
>> 17: [0- 1]: digital audio playback
>> 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback
>> 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture
>>   0: [0- 0]: ctl
>>   1:       : sequencer
>> 33:       : timer
>> [root at pianoman drivers]#
>>
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