From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QvTC3-0002WJ-M6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:01:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48A7921C1DB; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1986F21C027 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:00:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkd1 with SMTP id 1so5034710bkd.40 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:00:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=V/lDlfpIdDEeXHfOmGkSzGHDdfbWtNL+4c97tHX5Vrs=; b=RdgoJvsmTvjPnO66iq/q4PSNzBkUI1Ej0rOrEH4u0Tt0+oic9aYamKJ2IKlPvTPmHW 1atYdnUmiI50N0PTZmo+iGPi/K9ts0yRN82kuK6k2p9W9XbYMwRepTNVcje0YITrS4Uq gp6Kn0d/uIqOlzghYDyBdsuFqg1n+0LNQHnBE= Received: by 10.204.3.139 with SMTP id 11mr847663bkn.376.1314014426233; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:00:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [141.35.148.51] (ipc057.ipc.chege.uni-jena.de [141.35.148.51]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y8sm1906098bks.54.2011.08.22.05.00.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E5244D9.7090403@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:00:25 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Maximilian_Br=E4utigam?=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ff & chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly References: <4E50BE21.8040508@gmail.com> <4E50D481.1060503@gmail.com> <1417970.uqbLWRoAmB@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1417970.uqbLWRoAmB@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 331a7986732f57dbac7acacbed9d67b5 Am 21.08.2011 12:57, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > Am Sonntag 21 August 2011, 04:48:49 schrieb Dale: >> Maximilian Br=E4utigam wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I recently bought a Zotac Barebone ZBOX HD-AD02 AMD E-350 and install= ed >>> Gentoo on it, what is working more or less very well except the sound= . I >>> did everything according to gentoo and gentoowiki docs, I installed (= due >>> to laziness) a gentoo-sources kernel with genkernel and Sabayon linux >>> standard configuration, and I am using pulseaudio, but when I launch >>> firefox or chromium from console and play some sounds, I get lots of >>> these error messages: >>> >>> "ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave" >>> >>> I already googled for it but didn't find something helpful. The Zbox = has >>> a HDMI and a standard device: >>> >>> # lspci -v | grep -i audio >>> 00:01.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device 1314 >>> 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (= rev >>> 40) >>> >>> # cat /proc/asound/cards >>> >>> 0 [Generic ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic >>> >>> HD-Audio Generic at >>> 0xfeb44000 irq 40 >>> >>> 1 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB >>> >>> HDA ATI SB at 0xfeb40000 >>> irq 16 >>> >>> You can find the complete alsa-info output at >>> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/461744/ >>> >>> For me, the interesting part is this section: >>> >>> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** >>> card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] >>> >>> Subdevices: 1/1 >>> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 >>> >>> card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog] >>> >>> Subdevices: 1/1 >>> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 >>> >>> card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital] >>> >>> Subdevices: 1/1 >>> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 >>> >>> Is is possible that ff and chromium are sending data to HDMI since it= is >>> card 0? If you think, it would be helpful to disable card 0 or change >>> the order, please tell me how to do it? >>> >>> I highly appreciate all kinds of help! >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> der Max >> >> A silly question for a common problem. You did unmute the volume >> right? The default is to have everything muted so it is very common f= or >> folks to forget that little but important detail. >> >> Also, on one of my rigs, I had to unmute with both Kimix and alsamixer= . >> >> Just a thought. I've done this myself. > > and don't forget to mute spdif optical raw > > and try without pulseaudio first. > >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) Hi Dale and Volker, I tried it without pulseaudio first and, Dale, my card is unmuted. ;)=20 Totem and vlc are working without any problems but ff and chromium=20 aren't able to produce sound - and it is somehow related to the error=20 message above. But Volker, I highly appreciate the tip with the spdif and I'll try that. Thank you very much. Kind regards, Max