[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#611533: Bug#611533: alsa-base: version issue: kernel provides 1.0.21 drivers, alsa is 1.0.23

[Brice Rebsamen]

Sure I can do that. However I have already fixed the problem by
compiling and installing the new alsa drivers with m-a. How do I
remove those modules before doing the test?
Brice

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de> wrote:
> * Brice Rebsamen [110131 10:02 +0800]:
>> About 5 days ago the sound disappeared on VLC, mozilla flash player
>> (youtube videos and the likes), XINE, MPlayer, Kaffeine, but NOT from
>> Amarok, Skype and Dragon media player... i.e. if I play a video I get
>> the image but not the sound
>>
>> VLC reports an error about a version issue with ALSA lib, but not the
>> other applications.
>>
>> I posted the problem on linuxquestion first:
>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-desktop-74/sound-suddenly-disappeared-from-some-applications-859160/
>> And I was advised to diagnose with alsa-info.sh. The output is here:
>> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=7596318b68885a0702cea56188b874af2191c2a8
>
> It seems to be something with aRts or so. Please do a test:
>
> _Don't_ log on to X.
> Login to console aas user (you can reach it by <ctrl> <alt> <F2>)
>
> try as follows:
> $ mplayer -vo none some-sound-file
> Sound?
>
> $ cvlc some-video-file
> Sound?
>
> $ aplay some-wav-file
> Sound?
>
> You can adjust soundsetings by running
> $ alsamixer
> and tune whatever you want.
>
> Elimar
>
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>