[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#599656: Bug#599656: alsa-base: no sound / few devices in mixer with ATI RS780 sound

[Gary Dale]

On 12/10/10 05:55 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Gary Dale [101012 17:37 -0400]:
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>> On 12/10/10 03:18 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
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>>> * Gary Dale [101012 12:02 -0400]:
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>>>> On 10/10/10 02:01 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
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> [...]
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>>>>      Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
>>>> default:CARD=SB
>>>>      HDA ATI SB, ALC889A Analog
>>>>      Default Audio Device
>>>>          
> [...]
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>> The KDE system monitor shows only pulsaudio running. However:
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> The best is: 'ps aux | grep puls'
>
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>> root at transponder:/home/garydale# /etc/init.d/pulseaudio stop
>> Stopping PulseAudio DaemonNo process in pidfile '/var/run/pulse/pid'
>> found running; none killed.
>> ... pulseaudio is not running.
>>
>> Similarly, killing the process using either killall pulseaudio, kill
>> <process #>  or killing it using the system monitor fails to prevent
>> it from restarting with a new PID.
>>
>> See attached screen shot of the mixer.
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> Your default device is SB analog but "S/PDIF Default" is enabled. Try
> to mute that control and test sound again.
>
> Elimar
>
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Actually, S/PDIF is off. The S/PDIF Default is set to PCM but that 
shouldn't matter so long as S/PDIF is off. I'm not sure how to change it 
since it doesn't seem to respond to the various keys that I've tried 
that work on the other controls.