One may also be surprised at the additional places ALSA or pulseaudio might be "bound" by Gnome.Consider running<div> 'gconf-editor /system/gstreamer/0.10/default'</div><div>to see what settings you've got. The intermittencies you've noted could be because other parts of the system (web, chat, music players, desktop noises) might be silently binding your audio ports.</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>For example I set /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/musicaudiosink to 'alsasink device="hw:SB,1"'</div><div>which lets music players like rhythmbox directly produce digital audio out on the TOSlink fiber port on my ASUS motherboard...</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><div>Niels<br><a href="http://nielsmayer.com">http://nielsmayer.com</a><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Niels Mayer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nielsmayer@gmail.com">nielsmayer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Peter Kirn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@createdigitalmedia.net" target="_blank">peter@createdigitalmedia.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Looking at AlsaMixer as you suggest, I definitely see the HDA Intel<br>
card. Master and PCM have volume levels; Headphone and Speaker show up<br>
but do not have mixer values.<br></blockquote></div><div>...</div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
"control open "hw:intel" (No such device)</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Cannot initialize driver"</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Hunches: </div><div><br></div><div>Something is unexpectedly grabbing your hw:intel controls.</div><div><br></div><div>Consider that X/Gdm launch pulseaudio, so you can have those cute noises when you mistype your password; it will therefore grab the hw:intel controls. By totally removing pulseaudio, this can't happen, ever.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Consider also that these intel cards often include a semi-shared HDMI audio portion e.g.</div><div><br></div><div><div>## 1 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB</div><div>## HDA ATI SB at 0xfb7f4000 irq 16</div>
<div>## 2 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI</div><div>## HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfb9fc000 irq 19</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps also consider disabling the HDMI portion to prevent interference from that (as well as not loading extra drivers that you're not using).</div>
<div><br></div><div>(from /etc/modprobe/*.conf: )</div><div><div>alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel</div><div><div>options snd-hda-intel index=1,2 enable=1,0</div><div><br></div><div>As a half-step towards preventing problems, you can also even w/ pulse running, disable all system sounds and all error warning sounds. That causes a whole class of sound system lockups in and of itself. However, once you've gone that far, you might as well go all the way and follow my original suggestion: <a href="http://old.nabble.com/uninstall-pulseaudio-to-increase-audio-app-stability-across-updates-%28was-Re%3A-yum-update%29-tp27759501p27759501.html" target="_blank">http://old.nabble.com/uninstall-pulseaudio-to-increase-audio-app-stability-across-updates-%28was-Re%3A-yum-update%29-tp27759501p27759501.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>-- Niels</div><div><a href="http://nielsmayer.com" target="_blank">http://nielsmayer.com</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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