No sound with KDE
Hi,
I've recently upgraded from Sarge to Etch. Most things went smoothly... But, I just realized I have no sound anymore.
I noticed that alsa was not installed anymore (I'm pretty sure it was installed with Sarge), so I installed alsa, alsa-utils, alsa-tools, alsa-oss. Ran alsaconf, alsamixer, alsactl strore. But I get no sound, when running KDE.
* I get no error message and all seems like is playing, except there is no sound. (It's like the volume is down. But kmixer and alsamixer show that it is not.)
* I can play sounds *before* I start KDE.
* If I kill KDE, I still get no sound (not even from a terminal), unless I do "/etc/init.d/alsa unload && alsaconf".
* If I start fluxbox instead of KDE, or play sound from a terminal, sound works (if I haven't started KDE yet). If I start KDE, it stops.
* I checked the mixer, and volumes are still up (before and after KDE starts).
* /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop/start does not bring the sound back... But rebooting does (before KDE is started.)
* Within KDE (or while running it, or after running it), no user gets any sound (not even root).
* I've tried ogg123, aplay, xmms...
* Killing artsd has no effect (so I assume it is not its fault).
* The suggestion from
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/01/msg03099.html
does not work.
* In kcontrol -> Sound & Multimedia -> Sound System, I have "Enable the sound system checked." (Clicking on "Test sound" produces no output.) In "Hardware" I tried the default "Auto Detect" in "select the audio device", but have also tried ALSA and OSS, with no success. Nothing else is checked. (I tried "Full duplex", but doesn't help either.)
If this helps, here is more info about the system:
debian[~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [CS46xx ]: CS46xx - Sound Fusion CS46xx
Sound Fusion CS46xx at 0xe2105000/0xe2000000, irq 201
debian[~]$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_cs46xx 76680 2
snd_ac97_codec 82976 1 snd_cs46xx
snd_ac97_bus 2624 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 36768 0
snd_mixer_oss 16192 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 74948 3 snd_cs46xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4100 0
snd_seq_oss 28928 0
snd_seq_midi 8416 0
snd_rawmidi 23200 2 snd_cs46xx,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 7424 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 46736 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 21124 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 8012 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 48548 12 snd_cs46xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 9440 2 snd
snd_page_alloc 9800 2 snd_cs46xx,snd_pcm
gameport 14600 5 snd_cs46xx,analog,ns558
debian[~]$ lspci | grep audio
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
debian[~]$ uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.17-2-k7 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 17:18:46 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
debian[~]$ wajig list-installed alsa
alsa-base
alsa-oss
alsaplayer
alsaplayer-common
alsaplayer-gtk
alsaplayer-oss
alsa-tools
alsa-utils
gstreamer0.10-alsa
xmms2-plugin-alsa
Any suggestions... I ran out of ideas and I couldn't find anything (else) with google...
Best to all,
Luis
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