[PlanetCCRMA] No sound whatsoever...

[christopher melen]

Hi Fernando,

'cat /proc/asound/cards' gives  -

0 [AudioPCI ]:ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
              Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at Oxecc0, irq
9

'cat /proc/asound/devices' gives -

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


'ps axuw|grep arts' yields nothing, but 'ps axuw|grep
esd' gives -

root      3986   0.0   0.2   3720  640    pts/1    s+ 
  21:46      0:00 grep esd

esd doesn't seem to actually be running, so nothing to
disable there. Still no sound even after trying gamix
(don't seem to have alsamixer, and couldn't open
qamix).

I have been testing the soundcard from the system
menu.

Chris



--- Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 20:32 +0100, christopher melen
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm running planetccrma on a Dell Optiplex GX100.
> I
> > have no internet connection on this machine, so
> > installed using the pre-prepared disks located at
> -
> > 
> > ftp://ccrma.stanford.edu/pub/planetccrma/3/
> > 
> > Although my soundcard worked perfectly during the
> > initial installation test, I now have no sound
> > whatsoever. My soundcard spec -
> > 
> > VENDOR: Ensoniq
> > MODEL: ES1371 [AudioPC1-97]
> > MODULE = snd-ens 137
> > 
> > Although I am a relative newbie, both to Linux and
> > such things as alsa and jack, I'm pretty sure it's
> not
> > a trivial configuration issue; possibly a kernel
> > module problem?
> 
> What do you see when you do:
>   cat /proc/asound/cards
>   cat /proc/asound/devices
> (from a terminal)
> 
> You should see your soundcard and its audio and midi
> devices. If you
> don't then ALSA is not running. 
> 
> You should also start a mixer app and make sure the
> channels are not
> muted and the levels are raised. I usually use
> either Gamix or alsamixer
> from a terminal. 
> 
> > Perhaps a clue lies in the fact that when I test
> the
> > soundcard now the test freezes (with no sound,
> > obviously), and I have to force quit.
> 
> How are you testing and what do you force quit?
> 
> It could be that an application is already using the
> audio device and
> the app you are using to test blocks (waiting for
> the device to be
> freed). Check to see if something like "arts" or
> "esd" is running, you
> can search for this by doing:
>   ps axuw|grep arts
>   ps axuw|grep esd
> 
> Those are the "sound daemons" for the desktop which
> you should perhaps
> disable (if that's the problem). 
> 
> > Hope someone can shed some light on this!
> 
> -- Fernando
> 
> 
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