Sound should be easier than this....

[craigbert]

Hello All,

My system continues to struggle playing sounds/music.

The following command works:

aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

Audacious works
JuK and Amarock do not.

When I execute:

lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio"

I get the following output:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 907a
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 56
    Memory at ea200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
    Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

--
01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 907a
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
    Memory at e3080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
    Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

When I execute this command:

sudo aplay -l

I get the following output:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC275 Analog [ALC275 Analog]
 Subdevices: 0/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC275 Digital [ALC275 Digital]
 Subdevices: 0/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Other than being a total n00b, would anyone have any idea why my sound / playback stuff seems to be unstable?

[The Liquidator]

Re: Sound should be easier than this....

11.10

Don't know if you know this but kmix now sees Amarok as producing a playback stream which has it's own (additional) volume setting. Right click on the speaker icon/restore/select the playback streams tab.

NB you must have Amarok playing something at the time for it to even appear in the tab but don't worry once you set it it sticks.

HTH