[PlanetCCRMA] ALSA/Soundcard problems

[Tim Boulette]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 22:48 -0500, Tim Boulette wrote:
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>>Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 20:42 -0500, Tim Boulette wrote:
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>>>>Mark Knecht wrote:
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>>>>>On 11/6/05, Tim Boulette <tboulet1@maine.rr.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>I'm a complete newbie to Linux and PlanetCCRMA, so I'm hoping you all can
>>>>>>bear with me if this is a simple question and I'm just missing it.  I'll
>>>>>>gladly accept all the help I can get.
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>>>>>>I've installed Fedora Core 3 (in fact, I've pretty much followed the
>>>>>>installation instructions from the Planet CCRMA website (http://ccrma
>>>>>>stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/installtwosix.html) verbatim.
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>>>>>>My soundcard is a M-Audio Delta 66.  (Also have a VIA AC'97 on the mainboard
>>>>>>which I don't really use.)  The Delta 66 is working fine in WinXP.  During
>>>>>>FC3 installation, setup seems to identify the card, but when I test it I get
>>>>>>no sound.
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>>>>>>I've proceeded with installation anyway, hoping to fix the problem later,
>>>>>>but have been unsuccessful so far.  I've tried updating all FC3 components;
>>>>>>manually installing ALSA; and I've even tried alsaconf to manually set the
>>>>>>Delta 66 as my card -- all to no avail.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Can anybody give me some ideas about how to solve this problem?
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>>>>>Folks would like to see your /etc/modprobe.conf file I'm sure. Also
>>>>>the output of lsmod, and possibly the output of
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>>>>>cat /proc/asound/cards
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>>>>>One thing some new folks miss is unmuting the card. Have you ran
>>>>>alsamixer and made sure that the card has volume up on the master and
>>>>>PCM cannels? (I'm assuming alsamixer works on that card...)
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>>>>Here's the output of cat /proc/asound/cards:
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>>>>0 [M66            ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Delta 66
>>>>                    M Audio Delta 66 at 0xb000, irq 12
>>>>1 [rev50          ]: VIA686A - VIA 82C686A/B rev50
>>>>                    VIA 82C686A/B rev50 at 0xa000, irq 12
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>>>>Hmm.  Interesting that the IRQ's are the same--again, they work in 
>>>>Windows XP.  I've made sure the card isn't muted (in fact, in 
>>>>frustration I'd turned every slider up full).  Peter, I'm NOT (yet) 
>>>>using envy24control.  That may be the answer, but (I'm embarassed to 
>>>>say) I can't figure out how to install it. 
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>>>It is part of the alsa-tools package, most probably you already have it
>>>installed ("rpm -q alsa-tools" to find out - "apt-get install
>>>alsa-tools" to install it). 
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>>>If you have it "envy24control" will start it from a terminal. 
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>>I'm sorry -- I just realized I hadn't reinstalled the planetccrma 
>>package in my latest go-round.  Having done that, I now have the 
>>envy24control mixer running.  Still no sound, though.
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>There is a tab with sliders for the analog outputs, are those up?
>What is it your are using to test sound output?
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>-- Fernando
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Under the "analog volume" tab, I've moved all sliders to max.  I'm using 
audio player, playing a .wav file.  When I push the play button, I get 
the following popup error message:

"Please check that:

Your soundcard is configured properly
You have the correct output plugin selected
No other program is blocking the soundcard"

Tim