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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Absolutely no sound whatsoever after latest emerge update
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:24:31
Message-Id: 20080926142714.GA17561@princeton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Absolutely no sound whatsoever after latest emerge update by Walter Dnes
1 On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:14:48AM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked:
2 > [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
3 > [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Device or resource busy
4 > DVB card number must be between 1 and 4
5 > AO: [null] 22050Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
6
7 This points to an issue with your alsa configuration/installation.
8
9 > mpg123 doesn't work
10 >
11 > [d530][waltdnes][~] mpg123 /home/misc/music/pop_standards/Tennessee_Waltz_-_Patti_Page.mp3
12 > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
13 > [alsa.c:146] error: cannot open device default
14 > [audio.c:517] error: failed to open audio device
15 > [mpg123.c:709] error: Failed to initialize output, goodbye.
16
17 Same error as above, a problem with alsa.
18
19 > neither does mpg321
20 >
21 > [d530][waltdnes][~] mpg321 /home/misc/music/pop_standards/Tennessee_Waltz_-_Patti_Page.mp3
22 > No default libao driver available.
23
24 Not quite sure what the error is, perhaps you need to run mpg321
25 verbosely.
26 > my make.conf contains the following lines of interest
27 >
28 > USE="-* X a52 aac bzip2 dga doc dri exif ffmpeg flac gif jpeg mmx mng mp3 mpeg nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl png posix sse sse2 theora threads tiff truetype vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs wmf xcomposite xpm xv xvid zlib"
29 > ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol"
30
31 So it seems you have all the plugins for ALSA enabled.
32
33 >
34 > and uname says...
35 >
36 > [d530][waltdnes][~] uname -a
37 > Linux d530 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 #1 SMP Wed Aug 13 02:42:40 EDT 2008 i686
38 > Genuine Intel(R) CPU 2140 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
39 >
40
41 Just shooting randomly in the dark here:
42 * Did you update alsa recently? Do you have old alsa pcm
43 configurations files from before? Maybe those files are screwing
44 things up.
45 * Kernel module for your sound card?
46
47 W
48 --
49 (aikamuotojen käyttö aikamatkustuksessa)
50 "You can arrive (mayan arivan on-when) for any sitting you
51 like without prior (late fore-when) reservation because you
52 can book retrospectively, as it were when you return to
53 your own time. (you can have on-book haventa forewhen
54 presooning returningwenta retrohome.) "
55 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 658 days, 12:57

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