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From: Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sound stopped working [media-sound/pulseaudio-7.1]
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:19:32
Message-Id: 20160119201919.GD766@apio.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] sound stopped working [media-sound/pulseaudio-7.1] by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 09:57:18PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@××××××××××××××.com>
3 > wrote:
4 >
5 > > I use pulseaudio without ALSA, for what it's worth. I also don't use VLC
6 > > or mplayer.
7 > >
8 >
9 > That's interesting. I didn't know one could use pulseaudio with ALSA left
10 > out.
11
12 I am not extremely familiar with how sound works, to be honest. I do
13 have the 'alsa' USE flag set on pulseaudio. Here are the modules I have
14 loaded in /etc/pulse/default.pa:
15
16 module-always-sink
17 module-augment-properties
18 module-card-restore
19 module-default-device-restore
20 module-detect
21 module-device-restore
22 module-filter-apply
23 module-filter-heuristics
24 module-intended-roles
25 module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1
26 module-native-protocol-unix
27 module-position-event-sounds
28 module-rescue-streams
29 module-role-cork
30 module-stream-restore
31 module-suspend-on-idle
32 module-switch-on-port-available
33 module-udev-detect
34
35 > I set the global USE flag to '-alsa' in '/etc/portage/make.conf' and ran
36 > 'emerge -aU' to see what would be pulled in/unmerged. Here's a list of
37 > packages emerge wanted to pull in:
38 > Calculating dependencies . ... .... done!
39 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-x-0.10.36-r1
40 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo-0.10.36-r1
41 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.10.36-r1
42 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg-0.10.36-r1
43 > [ebuild N ] media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23-r2 USE="nls orc"
44 > [ebuild N ] media-libs/faad2-2.7-r3 USE="-digitalradio -static-libs"
45 > [ebuild N ] media-sound/cdparanoia-3.10.2-r6 USE="-static-libs"
46 > [ebuild R ] net-misc/rdesktop-1.8.3 USE="-alsa*"
47 > [ebuild N ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-r1 USE="nls orc"
48 > [ebuild N ] media-libs/gst-plugins-good-0.10.31-r1 USE="nls orc"
49 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-resindvd-0.10.23-r1
50 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-dts-0.10.23-r1 USE="orc"
51 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-faad-0.10.23-r2
52 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvid-0.10.23-r1
53 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-cdparanoia-0.10.36-r1
54 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-a52dec-0.10.19-r1 USE="orc"
55 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-x264-0.10.19-r1
56 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.10.19-r1
57 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.10.31-r1
58 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvdread-0.10.19-r1
59 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-pulse-0.10.31-r1
60 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.13_p201211-r5
61 > USE="orc -libav"
62 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mpeg2dec-0.10.19-r1
63 > [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.2_pre20150214-r1 USE="-alsa*"
64 > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r10 USE="X a52 aac
65 > cdda dts dvd ffmpeg flac mp3 mpeg ogg pulseaudio vorbis x264 xv xvid -alsa
66 > -dv -dvb -http -jack -lame -libass -libvisual -mms -modplug -musepack -opus
67 > -oss -taglib -theora -v4l -vcd -vpx -wavpack"
68 > [ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer-4.11.0 USE="-alsa*"
69 > [ebuild R ] media-video/vlc-2.2.1-r1 USE="-alsa*"
70 >
71 > Is this what you use, 'media-pugins/gst-plugins'?
72
73 Sorry, I misled you. I do not have any software configured to use ALSA
74 as far as I know, but pulseaudio is configured with the 'alsa' USE flag
75 as I mentioned above.
76
77 > > >
78 > > > My sound card details are.
79 > > > lspci -k
80 > > > ...
81 > > > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
82 > > > Controller (rev 02)
83 > > > Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
84 > > > Controller
85 > > > Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
86 > > > ...
87 > >
88 > > Have you looked at dmesg and/or any ALSA logs to see why ALSA-related
89 > > stuff can't be initialized? Intel hardware and drivers have always
90 > > treated me well, so this is strange.
91 > >
92 >
93 > '/var/log/dmesg' has this:
94 > [ 1.361704] ALSA device list:
95 > [ 1.361991] No soundcards found.
96 >
97 > While 'aplay -l | grep HDA' says this:
98 > card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
99 > card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1
100 > Digital]
101 >
102
103 Hmmm, strange that the model numbers are different between aplay and
104 lspci. Do any of your other machines have the same hardware, and do
105 lspci and aplay report the same stuff?
106
107 Alec