Too much aRts, Polonius.
James Henry Maiewski
jhm at mtdata.com
Tue Jun 24 03:50:38 BST 2003
Hello,
I have a SBLive! MP3+ 5.1 soundcard, and am running Mandrake Linux 9.1, using
ALSA version 0.9.0rc8: emu10k1 (installed with the distro), and KDE 3.1.0. By
all accounts, this combination should work without much of a problem. but
I've not been able to play anything but audio CDs (which tells me that the
speakers, and their connections to the sound card are working, I hope).
Whenever I un-mute the PCM channel I get random spurts of static, and an
electronic 'vroom-vroom' sound when I even move the PCM slider. When I
attempt to play a sound file, I get an increased amount of static, until the
playing stops (which seems to suggest that something is going right). In
fact, if I try to change the sound device to /dev/dsp in KDE control center,
it can't, then switches to the NULL device, which promply silences my
speakers. When using audio method ALSA, "artsshell status" returns "device:
default"
Attached are the results of what I'm told are fairly universal
troubleshooting diagnostics. I'm posting this to this particular list
because I read that one and only one incarnation of artsd should be running
at any given time. I get at least three and sometimes more. These all
appear on the process table as zombies (if that's what the little ghost is
meant to signify. Also, when no files are being played (not to glorify the
static that I hear), the command "/sbin/fuser-v dev/dsp" has nothing whatever
to say. Should this be the case?
Just because I'm on this topic, I read somewhere that APIC (whatever that is)
can interfere with sound. "dmesg" returns the phrase:
"local APIC disabled by BIOS --reenabling
found and enabled APIC"
comments?
Any kick in the right direction would be appreciated.
In particular, any surefire way to eliminate the possibility that my card is
kaput.
Less urgent, and possible more germane to this list, is the curious habit of
Kmix to reset my master volume to its highest level. Even curiouser is that
its highest level (with the slider all the way up) is 31% (lowest is still
0%). aumix says 100, and alsamixergui is also full throttle (so to speak).
With an advance of thanks,
Jim
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lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO
snd-emu10k1 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1102 device:0002 subv:1102 subd:8061)
grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
/sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
ppp_deflate 4408 0 (autoclean)
zlib_inflate 21156 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
zlib_deflate 21144 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
bsd_comp 5336 0 (autoclean)
sg 34636 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 16920 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ide-cd 33856 1 (autoclean)
cdrom 31648 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd]
parport_pc 25096 0 (autoclean) (unused)
lp 8096 0 (autoclean) (unused)
parport 34176 0 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
snd-seq-midi 5024 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-emu10k1-synth 5276 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-emux-synth 31644 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1-synth]
snd-seq-midi-emul 6780 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth]
snd-seq-virmidi 4572 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth]
snd-seq-oss 31104 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 5640 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 42608 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss 43556 0
snd-mixer-oss 14488 1 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-emu10k1 69268 5 [snd-emu10k1-synth]
snd-rawmidi 17600 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-emu10k1]
snd-pcm 77536 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer 18376 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc 7732 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm]
snd-util-mem 3008 0 [snd-emux-synth snd-emu10k1]
snd-ac97-codec 40160 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1-synth snd-emux-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd-hwdep 6368 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd 40868 4 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi snd-pcm snd-timer snd-util-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-seq-device snd-hwdep]
soundcore 6276 0 [snd]
nfsd 74256 0 (autoclean)
ppp_async 9216 0
ppp_generic 24060 0 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]
slhc 6564 0 [ppp_generic]
af_packet 14952 0 (autoclean)
floppy 55132 0
supermount 15296 2 (autoclean)
sd_mod 13100 0
scsimon 9280 0 (unused)
usb-storage 72952 0
scsi_mod 103284 5 [sg sr_mod sd_mod scsimon usb-storage]
usb-uhci 24652 0 (unused)
usbcore 72992 1 [usb-storage usb-uhci]
rtc 8060 0 (autoclean)
ext3 59916 2
jbd 38972 2 [ext3]
/sbin/chkconfig --list sound
sound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
/sbin/chkconfig --list alsa
alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
aumix -q
vol 74, 74, P
bass 50, 50
treble 50, 50
pcm 0, 0
speaker 0, 0
line 0, 0, P
mic 0, 0, R
cd 100, 100, P
igain 0, 0
line1 0, 0, P
phin 0, 0, P
video 0, 0, P
/* With a sound file playing, the following produces nothing elsewise. */
/sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/dsp chief 2001 f.... artsd
chief 2211 f.... artsd
chief 2529 f.... artsd
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