Re: Problem with Alsa sound and VIA 82xx
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 15:19:32 -0700, Peter Belew wrote:
> My problem is that sound takes a long time to start up after system
> boot. Sometimes I have to reload or restart the Alsa daemons, which
> sometimes seems to help. Playing music for a long time will eventually
> cause sound output to start.
[...]
> Debian version info:
> Linux cupid 2.6.18-6-486 #1 Sun Feb 10 22:06:33 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
> Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
> etch
>
> The system is up-to-date as of today - 19 March 2008
>
> peter@cupid:~$ lsmod
[...]
> snd_via82xx_modem 13832 0
> snd_seq_dummy 3972 0
> snd_seq_oss 27648 0
> snd_seq_midi 8352 0
> snd_seq_midi_event 6784 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq 42192 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_via82xx 25368 3
> gameport 13832 1 snd_via82xx
> snd_mpu401_uart 7552 1 snd_via82xx
> snd_ac97_codec 82848 2 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx
> snd_ac97_bus 2432 1 snd_ac97_codec
> snd_rawmidi 22048 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device 7820 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
> snd_pcm_oss 38048 1
> snd_mixer_oss 15232 1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm 65928 5 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer 19972 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> snd 45412 15 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_ac97_codec,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> snd_page_alloc 10248 3 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
> soundcore 8928 2 snd
[...]
> peter@cupid:~$ lspci
[...]
> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
> 00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
[...]
> The computer is an Averatec 3280.
Check if some process is blocking the sound devices by running:
lsof -w $(find /dev/ -group audio 2>/dev/null)
Also, post the output of:
cat /proc/asound/cards
cat /dev/sndstat
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