From: Joel Ross on
Dan C wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:34:08 +1100, Joel Ross wrote:
>
>> J.O. Aho wrote:
>>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, jross wrote:
>>>
>>>> Basically I have no sound on my fedora 11 box. So I'm hoping someone
>>>> can help me with this. I have attached some files that may be helpful
>>>> in locating the problem. Any help appreciated.
>>> Did you unmount with alsactl?
>>>
>>>
>> don't know what you mean unmount what?
>
> What he should have said was "un-mute". However, you use 'alsamixer' to
> do that. If you see an 'MM' on a volume slider, it's muted, and press
> the 'M' key to unmute it. Press ESC to exit alsamixer. Then run
> "alsactl store" to save the settings. Do all this as root.
>
>

It was in the state MM, but still having trouble as shown below.
From: Joel Ross on
Joel Ross wrote:
> despen(a)verizon.net wrote:
>> Allen Kistler <ackistler(a)oohay.moc> writes:
>>
>>> despen(a)verizon.net wrote:
>>>> Dan C <youmustbejoking(a)lan.invalid> writes:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, jross wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Basically I have no sound on my fedora 11 box. So I'm hoping
>>>>>>>> someone
>>>>>>>> can help me with this. I have attached some files that may be
>>>>>>>> helpful
>>>>>>>> in locating the problem. Any help appreciated.
>>>>> What he should have said was "un-mute". However, you use
>>>>> 'alsamixer' to do that. If you see an 'MM' on a volume slider,
>>>>> it's muted, and press the 'M' key to unmute it. Press ESC to exit
>>>>> alsamixer. Then run "alsactl store" to save the settings. Do all
>>>>> this as root.
>>>> I think with F11, he should be using pavucontrol.
>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>> pavucontrol is not included with F11 by default. During testing,
>>> pavucontrol was discovered to be seriously lacking in its ability to
>>> control what needed to be controlled. It's still available in the
>>> "Everything" (aka fedora) repository online, if you really want it.
>>>
>>> alsamixer is the standard fix in F11. gst-mixer is the GUI mixer.
>>
>> I'll take your word for it, but it's pretty non-intuitive
>> to control pulse with something written for alsa.
>>
>> Looks like pulse still isn't quite done yet.
>
> well I have this in my logs
>
> Oct 20 19:07:44 zenith pulseaudio[3161]: reserve-wrap.c: Failed to
> acquire reservation lock on device 'Audio0': Input/output error
> Oct 20 19:07:44 zenith pulseaudio[3161]: reserve-wrap.c: Failed to
> acquire reservation lock on device 'Audio1': Input/output error
> Oct 20 19:07:44 zenith pulseaudio[3161]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to
> find a working profile.
> Oct 20 19:07:44 zenith pulseaudio[3161]: module.c: Failed to load module
> "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id=1
> name=usb_device_d8c_201_noserial_if0_sound_card_0
> card_name=alsa_card.usb_device_d8c_201_noserial_if0_sound_card_0
> tsched=1"): initialization failed.
> Oct 20 19:07:44 zenith pulseaudio[3161]: ratelimit.c: 31339 events
> suppressed
>
> I might try removing pulse all together..

running command:
aplay -c 2 /home/jrcumbo/Music/-triplej-/TripleJ-FridayMix-26-09-2009.mp3

I get the error msg:
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1010:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
aplay: main:608: audio open error: No such file or directory