There is a problem with sound...

03-25-2009, 07:55 PM

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1@gmail.com> wrote:

Alexander Dong Back Kim wrote:

Dear members,

It seems there is a problem (at least on my laptop) with a sound card.

Although aplay detects the sound card, even I increase the volume as

maximum, nothing I can here...

There is a warning message in the syslog saying that

*'libcanberra-login-sound.desktop' failed to register before timeout.*

I have no idea what it means.

I feel like I'm a silence now =( please give my world back to me!!!

Regards,

Alex

*

* Alex do you have all the updates to 8.10 installed?

Karl

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Dear Karl,

Yes I do have all the updates of 8.10 I believe.

Alex

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03-25-2009, 07:58 PM

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog@gmail.com> wrote:

2009/3/25 Alexander Dong Back Kim <alexdbkim@gmail.com>:

> Dear members,

>

> It seems there is a problem (at least on my laptop) with a sound card.

> Although aplay detects the sound card, even I increase the volume as

> maximum, nothing I can here...

Assuming you're using Gnome, double-click the volume control applet on

the panel. *Then click "Preferences" and look to see if any of the

Playback channels are invisible. *If so, check/select them and see if

you get playback.

If not - we need to know what soundcard you have - use lspci and lshw...

Chris

Dear Chris,

I have only one playback showing
"ALSA PCM on front:0 (AD198x Analog) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)"

The following is the result from aplay

alexdbkim@alexk:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
* Subdevices: 1/1
* Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]

* Subdevices: 1/1
* Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

thanks for further suggestions =)

Regards,
Alex

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03-25-2009, 09:40 PM

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1@gmail.com> wrote:

Alexander Dong Back Kim wrote:

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1@gmail.com> wrote:

*

Alexander Dong Back Kim wrote:

* *

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1@gmail.com>

wrote:

* * *

Alexander Dong Back Kim wrote:

* * * *

Dear members,

It seems there is a problem (at least on my laptop) with a sound card.

Although aplay detects the sound card, even I increase the volume as

maximum, nothing I can here...

There is a warning message in the syslog saying that

*'libcanberra-login-sound.desktop' failed to register before timeout.*

I have no idea what it means.

I feel like I'm a silence now =( please give my world back to me!!!

Regards,

Alex

* * * * *

*Alex do you have all the updates to 8.10 installed?

Karl

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* * * *

Dear Karl,

Yes I do have all the updates of 8.10 I believe.

Alex

* * *

*OK now try booting on not the latest kernel but the one before that. The

newest kernel has some problems. Now check your sound. If still no sound

click on the two speakers that are on the upper edge of the screen. It is a

sound setting device.

*Now right click the speakers and choose "Open Volume Control" and make

sure all the controls are turned on and are turned up.

Karl

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Dear Karl,

First of all, thanks for your suggestion. However, sound still doesn't work

even I booted with linux kernel 2.6.27-9 instead of 2.6.27-11. =(

But this time I found something else that I didn't reported before. In the

syslog, I could see some more error messages.

I could find the below line by searching "sound".

Mar 26 08:51:25 alexk x-session-manager[6589]: WARNING: Application

'libcanberra-login-sound.desktop' failed to register before timeout

I also coud find the below messages by searching "audio".

Mar 26 08:51:07 alexk pulseaudio[6652]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find

original dlopen loader.

Mar 26 08:51:07 alexk pulseaudio[6654]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31,

31)) failed: Operation not permitted

Mar 26 08:51:07 alexk pulseaudio[6654]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9,

9)) failed: Operation not permitted

Mar 26 08:51:25 alexk pulseaudio[6654]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session

manager not running.

Mar 26 08:51:25 alexk pulseaudio[6654]: module.c: Failed to load *module

"module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.

It seems something is wrong with pulseaudio... any idea or suggestion for

this?

Regards,

Alex

*

* Sorry Alex I have never seen those error messages on the 8 series of Ubuntu. Both of my computers have fine sound using pulse audio.

Karl

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Dear Karl,

Thanks for your help! At least, I could find it's because of pulseaudio =) You are right that it seems pulseaudio used to have this issue but not anymore because I can't find any similar cases on google after 2007. =(

hum....

Regards,
Alex

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03-25-2009, 09:40 PM

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1@gmail.com> wrote:

Alexander Dong Back Kim wrote:

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1@gmail.com> wrote:

*

Alexander Dong Back Kim wrote:

* *

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1@gmail.com>

wrote:

* * *

Alexander Dong Back Kim wrote:

* * * *

Dear members,

It seems there is a problem (at least on my laptop) with a sound card.

Although aplay detects the sound card, even I increase the volume as

maximum, nothing I can here...

There is a warning message in the syslog saying that

*'libcanberra-login-sound.desktop' failed to register before timeout.*

I have no idea what it means.

I feel like I'm a silence now =( please give my world back to me!!!

Regards,

Alex

* * * * *

*Alex do you have all the updates to 8.10 installed?

Karl

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* * * *

Dear Karl,

Yes I do have all the updates of 8.10 I believe.

Alex

* * *

*OK now try booting on not the latest kernel but the one before that. The

newest kernel has some problems. Now check your sound. If still no sound

click on the two speakers that are on the upper edge of the screen. It is a

sound setting device.

*Now right click the speakers and choose "Open Volume Control" and make

sure all the controls are turned on and are turned up.

Karl

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* *

Dear Karl,

First of all, thanks for your suggestion. However, sound still doesn't work

even I booted with linux kernel 2.6.27-9 instead of 2.6.27-11. =(

But this time I found something else that I didn't reported before. In the

syslog, I could see some more error messages.

I could find the below line by searching "sound".

Mar 26 08:51:25 alexk x-session-manager[6589]: WARNING: Application

'libcanberra-login-sound.desktop' failed to register before timeout

I also coud find the below messages by searching "audio".

Mar 26 08:51:07 alexk pulseaudio[6652]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find

original dlopen loader.

Mar 26 08:51:07 alexk pulseaudio[6654]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31,

31)) failed: Operation not permitted

Mar 26 08:51:07 alexk pulseaudio[6654]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9,

9)) failed: Operation not permitted

Mar 26 08:51:25 alexk pulseaudio[6654]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session

manager not running.

Mar 26 08:51:25 alexk pulseaudio[6654]: module.c: Failed to load *module

"module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.

It seems something is wrong with pulseaudio... any idea or suggestion for

this?

Regards,

Alex

*

* Sorry Alex I have never seen those error messages on the 8 series of Ubuntu. Both of my computers have fine sound using pulse audio.

Karl

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Dear Karl,

Thanks for your help! At least, I could find it's because of pulseaudio =) You are right that it seems pulseaudio used to have this issue but not anymore because I can't find any similar cases on google after 2007. =(

hum....

Regards,
Alex

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03-25-2009, 10:00 PM

2009/3/26 Alexander Dong Back Kim <alexdbkim@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> But this time I found something else that I didn't reported before. In
>>> the
>>> syslog, I could see some more error messages.
>>>
>>> I could find the below line by searching "sound".
>>>
>>> It seems something is wrong with pulseaudio... any idea or suggestion for
>>> this?
>>>

I had the same trouble as you and it is because the good folks at
Ubuntu fubarred pulse audio in both 8.10 and 8.04.

Update pulseaudio as per this link;
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578

HTH
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03-25-2009, 10:00 PM

2009/3/26 Alexander Dong Back Kim <alexdbkim@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> But this time I found something else that I didn't reported before. In
>>> the
>>> syslog, I could see some more error messages.
>>>
>>> I could find the below line by searching "sound".
>>>
>>> It seems something is wrong with pulseaudio... any idea or suggestion for
>>> this?
>>>

I had the same trouble as you and it is because the good folks at
Ubuntu fubarred pulse audio in both 8.10 and 8.04.

Update pulseaudio as per this link;
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578

HTH
Bob Parker
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