Sound no longer works
Nigel Henry
cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr
Mon Feb 9 00:22:37 UTC 2009
On Monday 09 February 2009 00:03, kirk abbott wrote:
> 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 ---
The fact that no soundcards are detected is no surprise, as your lsmod output
below shows that the driver/module for the soundcard is not loaded. the lspci
-vn output is all a bit vague, and there is no indication as to which is the
soundcard. Normally you see the soundcard identified, and which driver it
uses. Perhaps you'd post the lspci output again, but this time as.
lspci -vvnn . This should give more output.
what machine is your Ubuntu Hardy 8.0.4 installed on? PC/Laptop, make, and
model.
Nigel.
> 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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