<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Mary Strimel <<a href="mailto:mary.strimel@gmail.com">mary.strimel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
> My myth box has been running happily for 70+ days, but now after rebooting<br>
> there is no sound. I don't think it's a myth-specific problem but since my<br>
> hardware is similar to other myth users I hope someone here can help me -<br>
> other routes have failed.<br>
><br>
> I have onboard Via sound using Alsa's snd_via82xx driver. I also have a<br>
> PC-HDTV 5500 and a WinTV PVR 250 installed.<br>
><br>
> There are two weird things I noticed after the reboot (besides the eerie<br>
> quiet):<br>
><br>
> 1) there no /dev/dsp device anymore. I think myth was using /dev/dsp for<br>
> sound; the myth setting is now defaulted to "adsp" but I have no idea what<br>
> that is.<br>
><br>
> 2) under xmms, sound *does* work if I select, under the ALSA output, "hw<br>
> 1,0" but there is no sound in any other program. Alsamixer shows the Via<br>
> sound controller as device 1, and all channels are unmuted / top volume.<br>
><br>
> I am aware that people on this mailing list have solved issues with PCI<br>
> cards being recognized in a different order at boot time, but I how do I<br>
> tell if this is actually the problem? I don't want to be messing around<br>
> with settings in "blind" fashion and break something else.<br>
><br>
> Also, if I determine that it's an issue with the card order, how would I<br>
> know which card "should" be detected first? And why aren't any /dev/dsp<br>
> devices being created at all?<br>
><br>
> Any help with the ANY of the above would be much appreciated! If it<br>
> matters, I have Ubuntu Gutsy 64.<br>
> thanks,<br>
> Mary<br>
<br>
</div></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">A few preliminary tests would be to run<br></blockquote>
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aplay -l<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
aplay -L<br></blockquote>
ls /proc/asound (I think thats the path)<br><br>
to see what is recognised.<br></blockquote>
</blockquote><div><br>The output is below. It seems to be treating the HD5500 as the "default" card. Is that the problem? If so, what do I do about it?<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
mary@mythbox:~$ aplay -l<br>**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****<br>card 1: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]<br> Subdevices: 3/4<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br> Subdevice #1: subdevice #1<br> Subdevice #2: subdevice #2<br>
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3<br>card 1: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]<br> Subdevices: 1/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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mary@mythbox:~$ aplay -L<br>default:CARD=CX8801<br> Conexant CX8801, CX88 Digital<br> Default Audio Device<br>null<br> Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)<br>default:CARD=V8237<br> VIA 8237, VIA 8237<br>
Default Audio Device<br>front:CARD=V8237,DEV=0<br> VIA 8237, VIA 8237<br> Front speakers<br>surround40:CARD=V8237,DEV=0<br> VIA 8237, VIA 8237<br> 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers<br>surround41:CARD=V8237,DEV=0<br>
VIA 8237, VIA 8237<br> 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers<br>surround50:CARD=V8237,DEV=0<br> VIA 8237, VIA 8237<br> 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers<br>surround51:CARD=V8237,DEV=0<br>
VIA 8237, VIA 8237<br> 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers<br>iec958:CARD=V8237,DEV=0<br> VIA 8237, VIA 8237<br> IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output<br></blockquote><div><br> mary@mythbox:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards<br>
0 [CX8801 ]: CX88x - Conexant CX8801<br> Conexant CX8801 at 0xe3000000<br> 1 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237<br> VIA 8237 with ALC655 at 0xc800, irq 22<br><br></div>
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