Bug 499707

Summary: sound card driver loaded but sound card not recognized?
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: James Ralston <ralston>
Component: alsa-libAssignee: Jaroslav Kysela <jkysela>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description James Ralston 2009-05-07 18:15:50 UTC
Created attachment 342905 [details]
output from "alsa-info.sh"

I loaded Fedora 11 Preview on my laptop. Although the sound card appears to be recognized (e.g., it's listed in /proc/asound), all utilities behave as if there is no sound card present in the system.

E.g.:

$ alsactl init
alsactl: init:1708: No soundcards found...

$ alsamixer -c0
wrong -c argument '0'

Note that the "alsa-info.sh" output claims that pulseaudio isn't running, but that is most decided false:

$ pulseaudio 
E: pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

$ ps fax | grep pulse
 3967 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
 3968 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2009-05-07 21:18:42 UTC
> Note that the "alsa-info.sh" output claims that pulseaudio isn't running, but
> that is most decided false:

That seems to be a bug in the alsa-info.sh script. I see the same. It is doing
pgrep /usr/bin/pulseaudio, which yields nothing.

Either 'pgrep pulseaudio' or 'pgrep -f /usr/bin/pulseaudio' would work.

Might be good to file a bug against alsa-utils about that.

Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2009-05-07 21:48:51 UTC
Seems to be an ALSA problem. 

Could you please attach the strace output of 'amixer -c0' here?

Comment 3 James Ralston 2009-05-14 02:45:42 UTC
The last batch of updated alsa packages in Rawhide (1.0.18-3.fc11) seems to have fixed this. For now, I'm going to close with RAWHIDE; if I see problems again, I'll reopen and provide "amixer -c0" output.

(The bad use of pgrep was also fixed in the latest alsa-utils.)