[Mageia-dev] No sound after reboot.

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Charles A Edwards at 14/12/11 04:45 did gyre and gimble:
> After rebooting tonight for the first time in approx a week I find that
> sound no longer works.
> 
> Sound card is c-media and is properly detected in both harddrake and
> alsaconf and uses the snd_cmipci driver and is set to use pulseaudio.
> 
> Driver and modules are loaded
> 
> [root at SuperSize ~]# lspcidrake -v |grep AUDIO
> snd_cmipci      : C-Media Electronics Inc|CM8738 [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO]
> (vendor:13f6 device:0111 subv:584d subd:3731) (rev: 10) [root at SuperSize
> ~]# lsmod |grep snd 
> snd_cmipci             40460  0 
> gameport               14963  1 snd_cmipci
> snd_pcm                84041  1 snd_cmipci
> snd_page_alloc         18101  1 snd_pcm
> snd_opl3_lib           18620  1 snd_cmipci
> snd_timer              28855  2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
> snd_hwdep              13515  1 snd_opl3_lib
> snd_mpu401_uart        13992  1 snd_cmipci
> snd_rawmidi            29657  1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device         14136  2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
> snd                    70007  8
> snd_cmipci,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> soundcore              14491  1 snd
> 
> But the card is not detected by pulseaudio
> Running PulseAudio Volumne Control:
> Shows only for Dummy Output
> Configuration:
> Shows: No cards available for configuration

Generally this relates to a permissions issue (although it can also
indicate a problem with dbus)

1. cat /proc/asound/cards
2. getfacl /dev/snd/pcm*
3. sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/pcm*

Col


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