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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ff & chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:01:37
Message-Id: 1417970.uqbLWRoAmB@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ff & chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly by Dale
1 Am Sonntag 21 August 2011, 04:48:49 schrieb Dale:
2 > Maximilian Bräutigam wrote:
3 > > Hello all,
4 > >
5 > > I recently bought a Zotac Barebone ZBOX HD-AD02 AMD E-350 and installed
6 > > Gentoo on it, what is working more or less very well except the sound. I
7 > > did everything according to gentoo and gentoowiki docs, I installed (due
8 > > to laziness) a gentoo-sources kernel with genkernel and Sabayon linux
9 > > standard configuration, and I am using pulseaudio, but when I launch
10 > > firefox or chromium from console and play some sounds, I get lots of
11 > > these error messages:
12 > >
13 > > "ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave"
14 > >
15 > > I already googled for it but didn't find something helpful. The Zbox has
16 > > a HDMI and a standard device:
17 > >
18 > > # lspci -v | grep -i audio
19 > > 00:01.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device 1314
20 > > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev
21 > > 40)
22 > >
23 > > # cat /proc/asound/cards
24 > >
25 > > 0 [Generic ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
26 > >
27 > > HD-Audio Generic at
28 > > 0xfeb44000 irq 40
29 > >
30 > > 1 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
31 > >
32 > > HDA ATI SB at 0xfeb40000
33 > > irq 16
34 > >
35 > > You can find the complete alsa-info output at
36 > > http://paste.pocoo.org/show/461744/
37 > >
38 > > For me, the interesting part is this section:
39 > >
40 > > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
41 > > card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
42 > >
43 > > Subdevices: 1/1
44 > > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
45 > >
46 > > card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
47 > >
48 > > Subdevices: 1/1
49 > > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
50 > >
51 > > card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
52 > >
53 > > Subdevices: 1/1
54 > > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
55 > >
56 > > Is is possible that ff and chromium are sending data to HDMI since it is
57 > > card 0? If you think, it would be helpful to disable card 0 or change
58 > > the order, please tell me how to do it?
59 > >
60 > > I highly appreciate all kinds of help!
61 > >
62 > > Kind regards,
63 > > der Max
64 >
65 > A silly question for a common problem. You did unmute the volume
66 > right? The default is to have everything muted so it is very common for
67 > folks to forget that little but important detail.
68 >
69 > Also, on one of my rigs, I had to unmute with both Kimix and alsamixer.
70 >
71 > Just a thought. I've done this myself.
72
73 and don't forget to mute spdif optical raw
74
75 and try without pulseaudio first.
76
77 >
78 > Dale
79 >
80 > :-) :-)
81 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] ff & chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly "Maximilian Bräutigam" <max.braeutigam@××××××××××.com>