Re: which sound card?

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Author: Craig White
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: which sound card?
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 13:18 -0700, wayne wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 11:20 -0700, wayne wrote:
> >
> > > Craig White wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > > > ----
> > > > > > that should have pulseaudio...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > how to check...from cli (fedora system)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > $ ps aux|grep pulse
> > > > > > craig     3027  7.7  0.5 163604  5136 ?        Ssl  05:20
> > > > > > 26:24 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
> > > > > > craig     3074  0.0  0.2   7912  2076 ?        S    05:21
> > > > > > 0:00 /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper

> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > I GET: wayne 13917 0.0 0.0 4064 780 pts/1 S+ 11:07 0:00 grep pulse
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > ----
> > > > it's not running.
> > > >
> > > > You might try executing (as user not root), 'pulseaudio --start' and see
> > > > what happens. If the connection is refused, that would likely be caused
> > > > by some program already attached to your sound hardware.
> > > >
> > > > This link might be useful...
> > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio
> > > >
> > > >
> > > wayne@Ivan:~$ pulseaudio --start
> > > pulseaudio: unrecognized option `--start'
> > > E: main.c: Failed to parse command line.
> > > wayne@Ivan:~$ pulseaudio
> > > W: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 16000 Hz.
> > > W: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't support 2 channels, changed to 1.
> > >
> > >
> > > No idea what to do
> > >
> > ----
> > I would think that it should attach to hw:0 and not hw:1
> >
> > Try to ensure that nothing has attached to hw:0 by logging out and
> > logging back in and then before you run anything else, open a terminal
> > and start pulseaudio again.
> >
> > then see if it attaches to hw:0
> >
> > If it does, it should be started as a daemon...I think the command
> > 'pulseaudio --start' is from a newer version and perhaps you might need
> > to run 'pulseaudio -D' to get it to run as a daemon.
> >
> > If it won't attach to hw:0 - I would recommend that you go through the
> > steps on the wiki I linked to.


> TRIED THE STEPS:
> root@Ivan:~# lsmod | grep snd
> snd_cmipci             38528  0
> gameport               16008  1 snd_cmipci
> snd_pcm_oss            42144  0
> snd_mixer_oss          17920  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                78596  2 snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_page_alloc         11400  1 snd_pcm
> snd_opl3_lib           12928  1 snd_cmipci
> snd_hwdep              10500  1 snd_opl3_lib
> snd_mpu401_uart         9728  1 snd_cmipci
> snd_seq_dummy           4868  0
> snd_seq_oss            35584  0
> snd_seq_midi            9376  0
> snd_rawmidi            25760  2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq_midi_event      8320  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq                54224  6
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_timer              24836  3 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq
> snd_seq_device          9612  6
> snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
> snd                    56996  13
> snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
> soundcore               8800  1 snd
> root@Ivan:~# lsof | grep dsp
> root@Ivan:~# echo 'ioUrbanTerror.i386 0 0 direct'
> > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
> root@Ivan:~# echo 'ioUrbanTerror.i386 0 0 disable'
> > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss
> root@Ivan:~#

>
> STILL, no sound from game

----
I would gather that sound always worked for one program so an lsmod of
the kernel modules used probably isn't really important but did you
manage to get pulseaudio running? When you run paman and pavumeter does
it connect to pulseaudio server? What does /etc/asound.conf look like?

Craig

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