[PlanetCCRMA] Saffire LE silence: a few, probably dumb, questions
sevol
sevols.ear at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 18:42:30 PDT 2009
On 4/11/09, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> When pulseaudio is installed, and enabled, you only see one control when
> opening alsamixer on the CLI. To see all controls for your soundcard, open
> alsamixer as below. This assumes you only have one soundcard on the machine.
>
> alsamixer -D hw:0
>
> I've just seen you also have a firewire card. I've no experience with
> firewire, but you could try alsamixer as below, if it's correctly detected
> as
> a second soundcard.
>
> alsamixer -D hw:1
>
> Post back the output of: cat /proc/asound/cards
>
> Pulseaudio, itself, can be a pain in the backside, and can create more
> problems than it's supposed to be able to resolve. To disable it do the
> following. You can always re-enable it later, if you want it.
>
> Using Yum:
> yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
>
> If you also have KDE, this will also remove, kde-settings-pulseaudio.
>
> Using Apt:
> apt-get remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
>
> Same as above if you also have KDE installed.
>
> Nigel.
>
> btw: sound does work on linux, but sometimes it just takes a bit of time to
> get it sorted out.
>
Hi Nigel,
First, the short version: Nothing has helped so far to get audio.
Now, the long story :)
With the onboard audio card enabled & running
alsamixer -D hw:0
in the shell, the HDA Intel onboard card shows up.
In fact, there's 2 onboard audio chips on this moterboard. (I think.
If you look at my earlier post, 2
cards show up in the interrupt messages. The 2nd is the HDMI one.)
When I enter:
alsamixer -D hw:1
the HDMI HDA Intel chip shows up. NExt, hoping to find the Saffire LE,
I entered:
alsamixer -D hw:2
but nothing's found; even thought my Saffire LE is plugged in & it's
LEDs have gone from red to green,
indicating that it's functioning with the ffado driver & syncing (I'm
guessing a bit.) & only the
Intel chips show up in the output from 'cat /proc/asound/cards'
I'd disabled pluseaudio earlier. Now I can't remeber the routine I
used to to that, but do remember
checking & pluseaudio wasn't showing up. At some point I did a warm
reboot, & pluseaudo seems to have
resarrected itself. So, following your help, along with some of the
other suggestions, I removed
pluseaudio & disabled onboard sound in the bios, then again entered:
alsamixer -D hw:0
& to my discust, the HDMI HDA Intel chip still shows up.
Again hoping to find the Saffire LE, I then ran:
alsamixer -D hw:1
But nothing's found. (The Saffire LE is still plugged in & seems to be
recognized by ffado.)
& the main thing remains, sadly, no audio.
Thanks for the encouragement,
sevol
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