[Mageia-dev] Obsolete MCC Sound Configuration troubleshooting instructions

[Felix Miata]

VLC:
Audio output failed:
The audio device "default" could not be used:
Connection refused.

Is this typical of Mageia systems with Intel chipset/Realtek audio, or just a 
temporary problem with Cauldron and PLF apps? VLC in Fedora 18 on same system 
works fine. VLC audio troubleshooting is more difficult than otherwise 
because it can't be run as root without recompiling. As root, permissions 
trouble shouldn't occur.

With the troubleshooting instructions from MCC sound troubleshooting 
converted to this script (with instructions from 
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2899#c4 added):
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/sndts.sh

This output results:
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/tsout.txt

Note there is no useful output from chkconfig, and that even though aumix is 
installed, /dev/dsp does not exist.

Motherboard:
http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=413#spec

Highlights:
Chipset: Intel G41 / ICH7
Realtek ALC662 6-Channel HD Audio

Does maybe the Realtek distinguish my problem from 
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2899 ?

/var/log/dmesg tail:
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/dmesg-big41-cauldron3.txt

Highlights from above:
[   11.012008] hda-intel: No response from codec, disabling MSI: last 
cmd=0x100f0000
[   12.014009] hda-intel: Codec #1 probe error; disabling it...

rpm -qa | grep alsa:
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/alsarpms-big41-cauldron3.txt

lspcidrake -vv:
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/lspcidrakevv-big41-cauldron3.txt

Highlight from above:
snd_hda_intel   : Intel Corporation|N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio 
Controller [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO_DEV] (vendor:8086 device:27d8 subv:1565 
subd:8218) (rev: 01)

hwinfo --sound:
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/hwinfosound-big41-cauldron3.txt

lsmod:
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/lsmod-big41-cauldron3.txt
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