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wrexx

Newbie

From: México

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 5

(solved) Some problems with my audio device using some software

Hi everyone, I've been using Chakra Archimides for 5 days now, everything is going perfect, just some sounds problems I got using some software. For example, when I'm using Umplayer or
KDEnlive I can't hear anything, but opera browser, minitube, Dragonplayer, and also the same system when I turn on the computer can produce sounds.
Using KDENLive this is what I got::

SDL failed to open audio: No available audio device

What could be the problem?

This is my system:

uname --all
Linux chakra-pc 3.2-CHAKRA #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 29 14:47:11 UTC 2012 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-42 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

This is information about my audio device:

hwinfo --sound
17: PCI 14.2: 0403 Audio device                                 
  [Created at pci.319]
  Unique ID: 5Dex.FpyRil_5h_0
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:14.2
  Hardware Class: sound
  Model: "ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)"
  Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc"
  Device: pci 0x4383 "SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1025 "Acer Incorporated [ALI]"
  SubDevice: pci 0x028d 
  Driver: "snd_hda_intel"
  Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel"
  Memory Range: 0xd2300000-0xd2303fff (rw,non-prefetchable)                       
  IRQ: 16 (43389 events)                                                          
  Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d00004383sv00001025sd0000028Dbc04sc03i00"           
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

Other information:

aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=SB
    HDA ATI SB, ALC272X Analog
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=SB
    HDA ATI SB, ALC272X Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC272X Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC272X Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC272X Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC272X Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC272X Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC272X Analog                                                                                                                                          
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers

Thanks for your help.

Last edited by wrexx (2012-02-25 22:10:06)

agapito

Addict

From: Spain

Registered: 2008-12-20

Posts: 446

Re: (solved) Some problems with my audio device using some software

For your sound problems uninstall kmix

sudo pacman -R kdemultimedia-kmix

and then install pulseaudio and related packages

sudo pacman -S pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa kdeplasma-addons-applets-veromix

Close your session and relog. Go to systray preferencies and enable veromix plasmoid. Go to the veromix options and configure your sound devices.

wrexx

Newbie

From: México

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 5

Re: (solved) Some problems with my audio device using some software

Now It seems that my audio device is not recognize, so I can't hear anything at all.

When I put on Konsole "speaker-test -c 2" this is what I get:

speaker-test 1.0.25

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Conexión negada

Playback open error: -111,Conexión rehusada 

chalk14

Member

From: England

Registered: 2012-02-23

Posts: 34

Re: (solved) Some problems with my audio device using some software

Watching this thread with interest as I am new to Chakra and struggling to get audio to work across the board...

agapito

Addict

From: Spain

Registered: 2008-12-20

Posts: 446

Re: (solved) Some problems with my audio device using some software

Pulseaudio is not started. Reboot your systen and try again.

Veromix mixer can see your devices?

tetris4

[Packager-Admin]

From: Thessaloniki, Greece

Registered: 2009-12-11

Posts: 3,152

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Re: (solved) Some problems with my audio device using some software

I don't know if it's our hardware detection or upstream KDE/phonon issues but we seem to be gettin a lot of these sound issues lately.

According to my experience with Chakra users and personal, the best solution is to play around with various phonon backends (I usually recommend vlc, but whatever works for you) and the device order in phonon settings.

If you have the patience and get the appropriate setting right, then you should be ok.

Of course you can try pulseaudio as agapito mentioned above, see if that helps.

wrexx

Newbie

From: México

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 5

Re: (solved) Some problems with my audio device using some software

Puff dumb me, my problem was that some programs (kdenlive and umplayer) were bad configure since a beginning in the audio driver output.... So now everything works just fine. Just to specify, I couldn't do my audio works very well using pulseaudio, so I uninstalled it and installed kmix again, but now I don't have any problem.

Thank you for your help and time.