Sound no longer works

kirk abbott kirkabbott at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 8 23:03:31 UTC 2009 

I believe I'm using the most recent kernel, as I don't know enough to handroll my own. And there are no new devices involved. I did try and subsequently remove some movie related applications. Below are the requested outputs:


kirk at me:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---
kirk at me:~$ lsmod| grep snd
snd_pcm_oss            42144  0 
snd_mixer_oss          17920  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                78596  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy           4868  0 
snd_seq_oss            35584  0 
snd_seq_midi            9376  0 
snd_rawmidi            25760  1 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  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          9612  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    56996  9 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               8800  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         11400  1 snd_pcm
kirk at me:~$ lspci -vn
00:00.0 0600: 8086:2a00 (rev 0c)
	Subsystem: 17aa:20b3
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:02.0 0300: 8086:2a02 (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: 17aa:20b5
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
	Memory at f8100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:02.1 0380: 8086:2a03 (rev 0c)
	Subsystem: 17aa:20b5
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Memory at f8200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1a.0 0c03: 8086:2834 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: 17aa:20aa
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
	I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]

00:1a.1 0c03: 8086:2835 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: 17aa:20aa
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
	I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]

00:1a.7 0c03: 8086:283a (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: 17aa:20ab
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
	Memory at fe304800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1b.0 0403: 8086:284b (rev 03)
	Subsystem: 17aa:20ac
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
	Memory at fe100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1c.0 0604: 8086:283f (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
	Memory behind bridge: fc000000-fdffffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f8000000-00000000f80fffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1c.1 0604: 8086:2841 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
	Memory behind bridge: dc100000-df6fffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000dfe00000-00000000dfefffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1c.2 0604: 8086:2843 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
	Memory behind bridge: fe000000-fe0fffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1c.3 0604: 8086:2845 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=0c, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
	Memory behind bridge: d8000000-d9ffffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000dfb00000-00000000dfbfffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1c.4 0604: 8086:2847 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=0d, subordinate=14, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff
	Memory behind bridge: d4000000-d5ffffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000df800000-00000000df8fffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2830 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: 17aa:20aa
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
	I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]

00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2831 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: 17aa:20aa
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
	I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]

00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:2832 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: 17aa:20aa
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
	I/O ports at 18a0 [size=32]

00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:2836 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: 17aa:20ab
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
	Memory at fe304c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev f3) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=15, subordinate=18, sec-latency=32
	I/O behind bridge: 00006000-00009fff
	Memory behind bridge: f8300000-fbffffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f4000000-00000000f7ffffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2815 (rev 03)
	Subsystem: 17aa:20a5
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.1 0101: 8086:2850 (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
	Subsystem: 17aa:20a6
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
	I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
	I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
	I/O ports at 1810 [size=16]

00:1f.2 0106: 8086:2829 (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
	Subsystem: 17aa:20a7
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 218
	I/O ports at 1c00 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 18d4 [size=4]
	I/O ports at 18d8 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 18d0 [size=4]
	I/O ports at 18e0 [size=32]
	Memory at fe304000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:283e (rev 03)
	Subsystem: 17aa:20a9
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
	Memory at fe305000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	I/O ports at 1c20 [size=32]

03:00.0 0280: 8086:4227 (rev 02)
	Subsystem: 8086:1010
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 216
	Memory at df6ff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

04:00.0 0200: 14e4:1693 (rev 02)
	Subsystem: 17aa:20d5
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 217
	Memory at fe000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

15:00.0 0607: 1180:0476 (rev ba)
	Subsystem: 17aa:20c6
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 20
	Memory at f8300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Bus: primary=15, secondary=16, subordinate=17, sec-latency=176
	Memory window 0: f4000000-f7fff000 (prefetchable)
	Memory window 1: 88000000-8bfff000
	I/O window 0: 00006000-000060ff
	I/O window 1: 00006400-000064ff
	16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

15:00.1 0c00: 1180:0832 (rev 04) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: 17aa:20c7
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
	Memory at f8301000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

15:00.2 0805: 1180:0822 (rev 21)
	Subsystem: 17aa:20c8
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
	Memory at f8301800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

15:00.3 0880: 1180:0843 (rev 11)
	Subsystem: 17aa:20c9
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
	Memory at f8301c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

15:00.4 0880: 1180:0592 (rev 11)
	Subsystem: 17aa:20ca
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
	Memory at f8302000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

15:00.5 0880: 1180:0852 (rev 11)
	Subsystem: 17aa:20cb
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
	Memory at f8302400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>



--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:

> From: Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr>
> Subject: Re: Sound no longer works
> To: kirkabbott at yahoo.com, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 8:42 AM
> On Sunday 08 February 2009 00:13, kirk abbott wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > For reasons not yet known, sound is no longer
> functioning. I am currently
> > working with 8.04 and clicking on the sound icon gets
> the following
> > message:
> >
> > "The volume control did not find any elements
> and/or devices to control.
> > This means either that you don't have the right
> GStreamer plugins
> > installed, or that you don't have a sound card
> configured."
> >
> > Anybody have any ideas on what I should be looking at
> or for?
> >
> > Kirk
> 
> Hi Kirk.
> 
> Have you just upgraded to Hardy 8.0.4, or was the sound
> working, but has just 
> stopped?
> 
> My Hardy install is Kubuntu, and sounds are ok, and
> pulseaudio doesn't enter 
> the equation on Kubuntu, but did you have a whole bunch of
> updates installed 
> just before the sound stopped working?
> 
> Have you started using a usb device, which is sound related
> (webcam, usb midi 
> keyboard, etc). I know on my Debian installs I had problems
> with my usb midi 
> keyboard. The usb starts early in the boot sequence, and
> alsa would detect my 
> usb midi keyboard as a soundcard, and set it as card0.
> consequently the 
> actual soundcard which needed card0, could no longer use
> it, as the midi 
> keyboard was using it, which resulted in no soundcard being
> detected, and no 
> sounds. If so remove the usb device, and reboot. the fix is
> easy for this 
> problem, but later.
> 
> Would you post the following output please.
> 
> cat /proc/asound/cards
> lsmod | grep snd
> lspci -vn    (just the bit for the soundcard)
> 
> If the soundcard is an hda intel one, the following output.
> grep ^Codec /proc/asound/card?/codec*
> 
> To check alsamixer settings, if the Gnome volume control is
> lying, open 
> alsamixer as below for card0, card1, etc, which will bypass
> the default 
> opening of alsamixer, where you only get the one pulseaudio
> control.
> 
> alsamixer -D hw:0            (this is for card0)
> alsamixer -D hw:1            (for card1)
> 
> Are you using the latest Hardy 2.6.24 kernel, or a hand
> rolled one?
> uname -r
> 
> Over to you.
> 
> Nigel.
> 
> 
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