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

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* 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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  not the fountainheads ;-)
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