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tytower · Posted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 05:04 Post_subject: Sound lost again [Solved]

I had good sound with a level adjuster in the tray but I was playing with the sound and it all disappeared

No tray level . Looking for sound problems I go through the alsa configuration setup but the machine now does not find a sound card

Its got one of these built in sound and graphics motherboards from Dell

Anyone got any clues?

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2218 Location: near here

in what way were you playing with sound?

that output do you get if you tap

tytower · Posted: Tue 13 Mar 2012, 04:37 Post_subject:

I am trying to work out how to copy the output of the urxvt console to post here
Sound does come back when I boot without pupsave file

In the meantime this is from pupscan
DESCRIPTION: Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio
VENDOR: 10de DEVICE: 026c
KERNEL DRIVER (builtin): Intel
KERNEL MODULE: snd-hda-intel

and the attached screenshot is from Hardware info

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2218 Location: near here

okay I've found its hard to get the sound system back on track.

looks like ALSA should use snd_hda_intel

I think the following file is where it gets loaded:

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

could try comparing what's in the pupsave with the pupbase.sfs

-make a copy of the pupbase.sfs
-boot without pupsave
-now both pupsave and pupbase.sfs can be mounted and inspected

btw- to get text from terminal highlight text, go to destination and press middle mouse button-
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HowToCopyFromTerminal

tytower · Posted: Wed 14 Mar 2012, 16:17 Post_subject:

OK Thanks
I'll look into both config files

The output you requested is
# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
ALSA lib conf.c:1016:(parse_value) card is not a string
ALSA lib conf.c:1685:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:2:20:Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:3467:(snd_config_hook_load) /etc/asound.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:3326:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:3713:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration
aplay: device_list:249: control open (0): Invalid argument
#

# alsamixer
alsamixer.bin: option requires an argument -- 'c'
Usage: alsamixer [options]
Useful options:
-h, --help this help
-c, --card=NUMBER sound card number or id
-D, --device=NAME mixer device name
-V, --view=MODE starting view mode: playback/capture/all
Debugging options:
-g, --no-color toggle using of colors
-a, --abstraction=NAME mixer abstraction level: none/basic
#

I am thinking alsamixer needs an argument ,perhaps -c but I dont know where I would get the card number

I also guess that aplay is just revealing that the sound module is not correctly loaded

npierce · Joined: 28 Dec 2009 Posts: 669

Your /etc/asound.conf file is probably corrupt. Please post the results of:

tytower · Posted: Sat 24 Mar 2012, 01:49 Post_subject:

@darkcity
Nope,

both config files are identical -alsa.config and alsa-base.config

Will have a look at npierce's suggestion

,thanks

@npierce The file looked as you suggested. I deleted it

Now
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
#

and now I'll try a reboot.

Brilliant the sound icon is back in the tray and the woof works -Thanks a lot for posting - Porn without sound is just plain boring hey!

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2218 Location: near here

@npierce thanks for help looks like I was looking in the wrong place.

@tytower glad you can now fully enjoy your 'computer'

npierce · Joined: 28 Dec 2009 Posts: 669

You're welcome. 'Tis good to hear that the problem is solved.

darkcity,

You asked the right questions. If you had not I wouldn't have suspected that asound.conf was missing its integers. The "ALSA lib conf.c:1016:(parse_value) card is not a string" from aplay, and the "alsamixer.bin: option requires an argument -- 'c'" from amixer were the tip-offs. So thank you.

By the way, this problem could sometimes arise from running the Multiple Sound Card Wizard (item "THREE" in the Sound Wizard) after ALSA Wizard had unloaded a necessary sound module. Barry recently uploaded an improved Multiple Sound Card Wizard to the repository which should prevent this from happening in future Puppies.

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2218 Location: near here

thanks for the info, good to know Multiple Soundcard Wizard got an update
; -)