[gentoo-user] THE SCREAM.

[gentoo-user] THE SCREAM.

[Alan Grimes]

You know that famous Van Gough painting? That kinda haunts you because
it's absolutely silent...

Well, that's what my computer is like since sound stopped working a few
days ago. =|


I have these speakers that basically haven't been turned off in 9 years,
but I can still play my PS3's sound through them through the aux input,
so I'm pretty sure they're still good.

I thought it was just a pulseaudio configuration, so I managed to get
that bastard restarted, no luck, then it was complaining that the audio
device was stuck or something, I warm booted then cold booted... Still
no sound. =(

Nothing has changed on the machine except I made the horrible,
unforgivable mistake of trying to update the software on my machine. =\

It has been so long since I have had a problem with my audio config, I
don't know where to begin solving this. Right now there are no error
messages, it just pretends to play sound normally but doesn't. =(

lspci output:
#####################
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00
Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
        Memory at fe500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
#####################


My pulseaudio setup is nothing but defaults:

tortoise pulse # pulseaudio --dump-conf
### Read from configuration file: /etc/pulse/daemon.conf ###
daemonize = no
fail = yes
high-priority = yes
nice-level = -11
realtime-scheduling = yes
realtime-priority = 5
allow-module-loading = yes
allow-exit = yes
use-pid-file = yes
system-instance = no
local-server-type = user
cpu-limit = no
enable-shm = yes
flat-volumes = yes
lock-memory = no
exit-idle-time = 20
scache-idle-time = 20
dl-search-path = /usr/lib64/pulse-7.0/modules
default-script-file = /etc/pulse/default.pa
load-default-script-file = yes
log-target =
log-level = notice
resample-method = auto
enable-remixing = yes
enable-lfe-remixing = yes
lfe-crossover-freq = 120
default-sample-format = s16le
default-sample-rate = 44100
alternate-sample-rate = 48000
default-sample-channels = 2
default-channel-map = front-left,front-right
default-fragments = 4
default-fragment-size-msec = 25
enable-deferred-volume = yes
deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 8000
deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0
shm-size-bytes = 0
log-meta = no
log-time = no
log-backtrace = 0
rlimit-fsize = -1
rlimit-data = -1
rlimit-stack = -1
rlimit-core = -1
rlimit-rss = -1
rlimit-as = -1
rlimit-nproc = -1
rlimit-nofile = 256
rlimit-memlock = -1
rlimit-locks = -1
rlimit-sigpending = -1
rlimit-msgqueue = -1
rlimit-nice = 31
rlimit-rtprio = 9
rlimit-rttime = 200000
tortoise pulse #

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Re: [gentoo-user] THE SCREAM.

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 29 September 2015 13:57:39 Alan Grimes wrote:
> You know that famous Van [Gogh] painting? That kinda haunts you because
> it's absolutely silent...

Do you mean the one by Edvard Munch?

:p

-- 
Rgds
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] THE SCREAM.

[wabenbau]

Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> You know that famous Van Gough painting? That kinda haunts you because
> it's absolutely silent...

"The Scream" is painted by Edvard Munch. Van Gogh (not Gough!) is well 
known for his paintings of sunflowers and cypresses. 

Yes I know, I'm a smart ass sometimes. :-)

--
Regards
wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] THE SCREAM.

[Lee]

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On Sep 29, 2015 11:17 AM, <wabenbau@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > You know that famous Van Gough painting? That kinda haunts you because
> > it's absolutely silent...
>
> "The Scream" is painted by Edvard Munch. Van Gogh (not Gough!) is well
> known for his paintings of sunflowers and cypresses.
>
> Yes I know, I'm a smart ass sometimes. :-)
>
> --
> Regards
> wabe
>

A common error. Both artists painted in impressionist style as well, and
both had struggles with mental illness....

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Re: [gentoo-user] THE SCREAM.

[wabenbau]

Lee <ny6p01@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sep 29, 2015 11:17 AM, <wabenbau@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > You know that famous Van Gough painting? That kinda haunts you
> > > because it's absolutely silent...
> >
> > "The Scream" is painted by Edvard Munch. Van Gogh (not Gough!) is
> > well known for his paintings of sunflowers and cypresses.
> >
> > Yes I know, I'm a smart ass sometimes. :-)
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > wabe
> >
> 
> A common error. Both artists painted in impressionist style as well,
> and both had struggles with mental illness....

I'm not an expert on paintings but AFAIK Van Gogh was rather an 
expressionist than an impressionist.

Can't say anything about Munch. All I know is that he painted
The Scream.

--
Regards
wabe

[gentoo-user] Re: THE SCREAM.

[Martin Vaeth]

<wabenbau@gmail.com> <wabenbau@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> You know that famous Van Gough painting? That kinda haunts you because
>> it's absolutely silent...
>
> "The Scream" is painted by Edvard Munch. Van Gogh (not Gough!) is well
> known for his paintings of sunflowers and cypresses

Doesn't matter in this context:
Both have a special relation to ears ;)

[gentoo-user] Re: THE SCREAM.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-09-29, Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net> wrote:

> You know that famous Van Gough painting? That kinda haunts you
> because it's absolutely silent...

Which one?  All the van Gogh paintings I've ever seen were absolutely
silent.  The ones I find haunting are The Potato Eaters and most of
his self-portraits.

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! Yes, but will I
                                  at               see the EASTER BUNNY in
                              gmail.com            skintight leather at an
                                                   IRON MAIDEN concert?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: THE SCREAM.

[Lee]

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I saw 'Irises' in person at the Getty, and it took 5 min before I could
lift my jaw off the ground...
On Sep 29, 2015 11:26 AM, "Grant Edwards" <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2015-09-29, Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > You know that famous Van Gough painting? That kinda haunts you
> > because it's absolutely silent...
>
> Which one?  All the van Gogh paintings I've ever seen were absolutely
> silent.  The ones I find haunting are The Potato Eaters and most of
> his self-portraits.
>
> --
> Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! Yes, but will I
>                                   at               see the EASTER BUNNY in
>                               gmail.com            skintight leather at an
>                                                    IRON MAIDEN concert?
>
>
>

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[gentoo-user] Re: THE SCREAM.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-09-29, Lee <ny6p01@gmail.com> wrote:

> I saw 'Irises' in person at the Getty, and it took 5 min before I could
> lift my jaw off the ground...

Haven't seen that one in person yet, it's on loan to the MIA here in
Minneaplis until this Saturday, so I'd better get it in gear...

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! Give them RADAR-GUIDED
                                  at               SKEE-BALL LANES and
                              gmail.com            VELVEETA BURRITOS!!

Re: [gentoo-user] THE SCREAM. (Pulseaudio)

[Carlos Hendson]

On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 13:57 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:
> I thought it was just a pulseaudio configuration, so I managed to get
> that bastard restarted, no luck, then it was complaining that the
> audio
> device was stuck or something, I warm booted then cold booted...
> Still
> no sound. =(
> 
> Nothing has changed on the machine except I made the horrible,
> unforgivable mistake of trying to update the software on my machine.
> =\
> 
> It has been so long since I have had a problem with my audio config,
> I
> don't know where to begin solving this. Right now there are no error
> messages, it just pretends to play sound normally but doesn't. =(

Hi Alan,

I have the same hardware and pulseaudio configuration as you. (I guess
it's quite stock standard).

I've had the odd occasion where I "loose" sound after using the
keyboard's shortcut key for mute.  A little one liner got it back:

amixer -D pulse set Master 1+ unmute

This assumes you're using alsa as the backend for pulseaudio.

Other possibilities are missing modules, kernel compiled with missing
options, missing packages for audio subsystem pulseaudio communicates
with.  It's hard to be specific without exact errors.

Hope that helps.
Carlos