Bug 445579 (Ivan) - Sound card plays audio files but no sound is heard
Summary: Sound card plays audio files but no sound is heard
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: Ivan
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: alsa-utils
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jaroslav Kysela
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-05-07 18:23 UTC by Ivan
Modified: 2009-07-14 15:29 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 15:29:38 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
pulseaudio.log (14.00 KB, text/plain)
2008-05-07 18:27 UTC, Ivan
no flags Details
log from pulseaudio -vvv (6.25 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-05-07 18:27 UTC, Ivan
no flags Details

Description Ivan 2008-05-07 18:23:04 UTC
Description of problem:
My soundcard seams to work but no sound is heard during playback.

I have this soundcard:
$ /sbin/lspci |grep audio
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97
Sound Controller (rev a0)

When I do this:
aplay -D hw:0 /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav

it doesn't show any errors and seams to play but no sound is heard.

I tried also running alsamixer -c 0 and all outputs are around 70-80% of volume.

I also tried playing one video ogg theora from redhatmagazine.com and it plays
but I still don't hear any audio from speakers. 

I also tried playing with:
pasuspender /usr/bin/aplay -- -D hw:0 /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav

also I tried killing pulseaudio and starting it again with:
pulseaudio -vvv

and I'll attach the log.

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Comment 1 Ivan 2008-05-07 18:27:08 UTC
Created attachment 304793 [details]
pulseaudio.log

this log it created by
grep pulseaudio /var/log/messages

Comment 2 Ivan 2008-05-07 18:27:59 UTC
Created attachment 304794 [details]
log from pulseaudio -vvv

log from pulseaudio -vvv

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 10:47:31 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 4 petrosyan 2008-05-18 03:58:32 UTC
start 'gnome-volume-control' go to the 'Switches' tab and enable the 'Speaker'
checkmark. Let me know if it fixes your problem.

Comment 5 Leo Canale 2008-05-19 14:54:20 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> start 'gnome-volume-control' go to the 'Switches' tab and enable the 'Speaker'
> checkmark. Let me know if it fixes your problem.

[root@scooter ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset Host Bridge
(rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset AGP Bridge
(rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go]
(rev a3)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4451 IEEE-1394 Controller
[root@scooter ~]# 

I have the same issue on my inspiron 8200 laptop. After boot into gnome I start
'gnome-volume-control' then I need mute and then un-mute PCM slider then sound
will work. Also shows no errors. Let me know what other info I can provide to
help troubleshoot this.

Comment 6 petrosyan 2008-05-19 15:02:07 UTC
do you have alsa-utils package installed?

Comment 7 Lennart Poettering 2008-05-21 14:21:50 UTC
This looks like yet another of those incomplete default mixer initialization
problems. Reassigning to alsa-utils.

Comment 8 Ivan 2008-05-22 16:06:34 UTC
hey there!

It took me a while to see that there are more than one comment here!

anyway, i opened 'gnome-volume-control', and no matter what device and engine
(pulseaudio, alsa, oss etc.) i select, when look in into switches, i can't find
the 'Speaker', so i can't select/unselect it... it's simply not there!

maybe it would help if i said that before this fedora on my laptop, i tried
ubuntu  7.10 and 8.04, as well as fedora 8, and basically had same problem with
any of them...

Comment 9 Leo Canale 2008-05-25 12:14:37 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> do you have alsa-utils package installed?
Yes!
[root@scooter ~]# rpm -qa alsa-utils
alsa-utils-1.0.16-2.fc9.i386
[root@scooter ~]#
I also noticed that I hear a click sound at the nash kernel boot time. Like it
clicks on and clicks off again a couple of seconds later.

Comment 10 Ivan 2008-05-26 14:01:52 UTC
yeah, the same clicking sound from speakers is happening to me too! any ideas?

Comment 11 Vedran Miletić 2008-12-26 23:28:26 UTC
This is a long time problem, and it is also a duplicate of bug 196597.

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Comment 13 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 15:29:38 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
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