[Mageia-dev] no sound (was: Proprietary graphic car...)

[Felix Miata]

On 2012/05/05 10:15 (GMT+0100) Colin Guthrie composed:

> 'Twas brillig, and Felix Miata did gyre and gimble:

>>  Since middle of yesterday I've done three HTTP minimal installs from
>>  Cauldron, all configured to 1600x1200x24bpp at 85 when adding X and
>>  minimalist (not via task-kde4-minimal) KDE using urpmi:

>>  1:
>>  Early Sempron 2000MHz CPU
>>  Radeon 7500 AGP Device 0x5157 "RV200 QW" (Dell Optiplex)
>>  NForce2 chipset
>>  KDE bling disabled
>>  x11-driver-video-ati-6.14.4-1.mga2
>>  No post-install visual fault found running radeon driver
>>  Sound does not work
>>  http://www.hbo.com/ requires Flash, but even with Flash installed from
>>  Tainted, the page displays nothing but black in Firefox.

> Can you clarify "sound does not work"?

Nothing but background hum coming from connected AV amp connected speakers.

>  Are you referring to HDMI sound
> or regular built in sound?

Surely there exists no motherboard with NForce2 chipset and AGP slot filled 
with rv200 that also has HDMI?

00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation NForce2 AC97 Audio 
Controler (MCP) (rev a1)

If so please do attach the output from "pacmd ls"

No package named pacmd.
# urpmi pulseaudio-utils
...
# pacmd ls
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
# startx
(KDE menu has no selection to configure computer. Without it there's no way I 
know how to manage systemd like I could with sysvinit.)
# mcc
bash: mcc: command not found
# chkconfig --list
...
alsa           	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off	7:off
...
numlock        	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off	7:on
partmon        	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off	7:off
resolvconf     	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off	7:off
...
sound          	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off	7:off
...
# systemctl list-unit-files
alsa-restore.service static
alsa-store.service static
alsa.service masked
...
sound.service masked
...
sound.target static
...

What to do?

>>  2:
>>  (Non-PAE, IIRC) P4 2.6GHz CPU
>>  Intel 865G pci 0x2572 video&  ICH5 chipset
>>  KDE bling disabled
>>  x11-driver-video-intel-2.19.0-1.mga2
>>  No post-install visual fault found running intel driver
>>  Sound does not work

> AS above

Nothing but background hum coming from connected AV amp connected speakers.

Surely there exists no motherboard with 865/ICH5 chipset and empty AGP slot 
that also has HDMI?

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Inter Corporation 82801EB/ER 
(KCH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Ausio Controller (rev 02)

# pacmd ls
(17.9k attachment)
# mcc
...
'Your card currently uses the ALSA "snd_intel8x0" droiver (the default driver 
for your card is "snd_intel8x0)'
PulseAudio enabled
Use Glitch-Free mode enabled
(advanced)
Troubleshooting
The classic bug sound tester is to run the following commands:

- "lspcidrake -v | fgrep -i AUDIO" will tell you which driver your card uses 
by default
- "grep sound-slot /etc/modprobe.conf" will tell you what driver it currently 
uses
- "/sbin/lsmod" will enable you to check if its module (driver) is loaded or not
- "/sbin/chkconfig --list sound" and "/sbin/chkconfig --list alsa" will tell 
you if sound and alsa services are configured to be run on initlevel 3
- "aumix -q" will tell you if the sound volume is muted or not
- "/sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp" will tell which program uses the sound card.

(There's no way to tell MCC to run those commands. -> 3kb attachment 2)

Logging in from KDM doesn't improve anything. In fact, after the desktop 
seems fully populated, there's a long pause before the panel populates the 
tray and it's possible to do anything other than look at the screen.


Oh, and on all systems https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283366 makes KDE4 
virtually useless.
-- 
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words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)

  Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!

Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/
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