[Mageia-dev] no sound (was: Proprietary graphic car...)

Sat May 5 12:43:55 CEST 2012

On 2012/05/05 10:15 (GMT+0100) Colin Guthrie composed:
+
+> 'Twas brillig, and Felix Miata did gyre and gimble:
+
+>>  Since middle of yesterday I've done three HTTP minimal installs from
+>>  Cauldron, all configured to 1600x1200x24bpp at 85 when adding X and
+>>  minimalist (not via task-kde4-minimal) KDE using urpmi:
+
+>>  1:
+>>  Early Sempron 2000MHz CPU
+>>  Radeon 7500 AGP Device 0x5157 "RV200 QW" (Dell Optiplex)
+>>  NForce2 chipset
+>>  KDE bling disabled
+>>  x11-driver-video-ati-6.14.4-1.mga2
+>>  No post-install visual fault found running radeon driver
+>>  Sound does not work
+>>  http://www.hbo.com/ requires Flash, but even with Flash installed from
+>>  Tainted, the page displays nothing but black in Firefox.
+
+> Can you clarify "sound does not work"?
+
+Nothing but background hum coming from connected AV amp connected speakers.
+
+>  Are you referring to HDMI sound
+> or regular built in sound?
+
+Surely there exists no motherboard with NForce2 chipset and AGP slot filled 
+with rv200 that also has HDMI?
+
+00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation NForce2 AC97 Audio 
+Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
+
+If so please do attach the output from "pacmd ls"
+
+No package named pacmd.
+# urpmi pulseaudio-utils
+...
+# pacmd ls
+No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
+# startx
+(KDE menu has no selection to configure computer. Without it there's no way I 
+know how to manage systemd like I could with sysvinit.)
+# mcc
+bash: mcc: command not found
+# chkconfig --list
+...
+alsa           	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off	7:off
+...
+numlock        	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off	7:on
+partmon        	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off	7:off
+resolvconf     	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off	7:off
+...
+sound          	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off	7:off
+...
+# systemctl list-unit-files
+alsa-restore.service static
+alsa-store.service static
+alsa.service masked
+...
+sound.service masked
+...
+sound.target static
+...
+
+What to do?
+
+>>  2:
+>>  (Non-PAE, IIRC) P4 2.6GHz CPU
+>>  Intel 865G pci 0x2572 video&  ICH5 chipset
+>>  KDE bling disabled
+>>  x11-driver-video-intel-2.19.0-1.mga2
+>>  No post-install visual fault found running intel driver
+>>  Sound does not work
+
+> AS above
+
+Nothing but background hum coming from connected AV amp connected speakers.
+
+Surely there exists no motherboard with 865/ICH5 chipset and empty AGP slot 
+that also has HDMI?
+
+00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Inter Corporation 82801EB/ER 
+(KCH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Ausio Controller (rev 02)
+
+# pacmd ls
+(17.9k attachment)
+# mcc
+...
+'Your card currently uses the ALSA "snd_intel8x0" droiver (the default driver 
+for your card is "snd_intel8x0)'
+PulseAudio enabled
+Use Glitch-Free mode enabled
+(advanced)
+Troubleshooting
+The classic bug sound tester is to run the following commands:
+
+- "lspcidrake -v | fgrep -i AUDIO" will tell you which driver your card uses 
+by default
+- "grep sound-slot /etc/modprobe.conf" will tell you what driver it currently 
+uses
+- "/sbin/lsmod" will enable you to check if its module (driver) is loaded or not
+- "/sbin/chkconfig --list sound" and "/sbin/chkconfig --list alsa" will tell 
+you if sound and alsa services are configured to be run on initlevel 3
+- "aumix -q" will tell you if the sound volume is muted or not
+- "/sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp" will tell which program uses the sound card.
+
+(There's no way to tell MCC to run those commands. -> 3kb attachment 2)
+
+Logging in from KDM doesn't improve anything. In fact, after the desktop 
+seems fully populated, there's a long pause before the panel populates the 
+tray and it's possible to do anything other than look at the screen.
+
+
+Oh, and on all systems https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283366 makes KDE4 
+virtually useless.
+-- 
+"The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant
+words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
+
+  Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
+
+Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/
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