Kmix won't open.

[gamer64]

Hey, i don't know whats happened, but for some reason, Kmix won't open from the kmenu. there is no icon in the toolbar, nothing. I tried to see if there was an error with my soundcard (Which doesn't work under kubuntu for some reason) using

sudo lshw|less

, and all i get is this:

*-multimedia UNCLAIMED
       description: Multimedia audio controller
       product: IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller
       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
       physical id: 14.5
       bus info: pci@0000:00:14.5
       version: 80
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: msi cap_list
       configuration: latency=64 mingnt=2

What can i do to open Kmix again?

[jankushka]

Re: Kmix won't open.

does kmix start from command line?
try open a konsole and enter:

kmix

see what happens.
post any error messages...

[jankushka]

Re: Kmix won't open.

judging from your post, your sound card doesn't work
'cause there's no driver associated with it.

ttbomk, the driver and the kernel module names in use
should be mentioned in the "configuration" line.

[gamer64]

Re: Kmix won't open.

yeah, i got this:

kmix: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[jankushka]

Re: Kmix won't open.

assuming you're on a 32bit platform, try:

sudo apt-get install libasound2

to install that library (which is the ALSA library)

if you're on a 64bit platform:

sudo apt-get install lib64asound2

and check if the alsa stuff is installed:

dpkg-query -l alsa-base alsa-oss alsa-utils

use adept (or synaptic) if you're not comfortable with command line.

hth

[gamer64]

Re: Kmix won't open.

Yep, did that, here's what i got:

||/ Name      Version    Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii alsa-base   1.0.14-1ubuntu ALSA driver configuration files
ii alsa-oss    1.0.14-1ubuntu ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
ii alsa-utils   1.0.14-1ubuntu ALSA utilities

[jankushka]

Re: Kmix won't open.

and?

if libasound is installed and kmix still complains it doesn't find it,
then something very funny is going on...

please confirm libasound is installed by:

dpkg-query -l '*asound2'

let's check what hw you have:

lspci

and let's check what's in your kernel about sound:

lsmod | grep -i snd

[gamer64]

Re: Kmix won't open.

For libasound, i got this:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name      Version    Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii libasound2   1.0.14-1ubuntu ALSA library

For HW, i got this:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:11.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc 437A Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc 4379 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 82)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 80)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200]
02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

And for the kernel, i got:

snd_atiixp       21132 0
snd_ac97_codec    100644 1 snd_atiixp
ac97_bus        3200 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss      44672 0
snd_mixer_oss     17664 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm        80388 3 snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy      4740 0
snd_seq_oss      33152 0
snd_seq_midi      9600 0
snd_rawmidi      25728 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event   8448 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq        53232 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer       24324 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device     9228 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd          54660 10 snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore        8800 1 snd
snd_page_alloc     11400 2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm

So whats up?

[jankushka]

Re: Kmix won't open.

well, i actually don't know.
everything seems to be installed alright.

does kmix still complain about not finding libasound?
could you please try and start it from command line again and see?

otherwise let's try this:

sudo apt-get autoremove libasound2 kmix --purge

to remove kmix, libasound2 and what goes with them.
and

sudo apt-get install kmix

to re-install kmix with its dependencies (which should include libasound).

let's see if anything changes...