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Hello esteemed readers |
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After four years in the making, I finally built a new machine. \o/ It's an |
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H97-based board with an ALC892 audio chip. The necessities work, but I'm |
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having problems with the out-of-the-box audio setup. After fixing the card |
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order (analog->HDMI, instead of HDMI->analog) I found another problem: |
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except for KDE, which has its own sound system, all other audio-related |
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programs do not work kcmus, aplay, mplayer, etc). For example: |
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$ play some_file |
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ALSA lib /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2/work/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2/src/pcm/pcm.c:2109:(snd_pcm_open_conf) type is not defined |
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play FAIL formats: can't open output file `default': snd_pcm_open error: No such file or directory |
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So I'm missing the "default" device. Sure enough: |
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$ aplay -L |
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null |
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Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) |
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sysdefault:CARD=PCH |
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HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog |
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Default Audio Device |
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front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 |
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HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog |
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Front speakers |
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[... and some more surround channels plus HDMI] |
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It only lists "sysdefault", but not "default". If I do |
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$ speaker-test -Dsysdefault -c2 |
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I get the test noise on both speakers. /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf defines both: |
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--------->%--------------- |
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# redirect to load-on-demand extended pcm definitions |
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pcm.cards cards.pcm |
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pcm.default cards.pcm.default |
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pcm.sysdefault cards.pcm.default |
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---------%<--------------- |
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But why only one shows up, I am at a loss. |
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Could you help me out here please? What is wrong? How can I better debug it? |
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Thanks. |
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