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Title: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: ordep on February 22, 2016, 07:21:20 PM: Unable yet to play an audio CD.

In alsamixer all needed controls are up.

aplay -l
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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
aplay track01.cdda.wav (extracted from CD)
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ALSA lib conf.c:3512:(snd_config_hook_load) cannot stat file/directory /usr/local/share/alsa/cards/aliases.conf ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.default aplay: main:722: audio open error: No such file or directory
xmms tells me
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Please check that you soundcard is configured properly
You have the correct output plugin selected

So what am I missing?
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: Juanito on February 22, 2016, 08:49:45 PM: There was an example of a similar problem in a recent thread:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,19621.msg121576.html#msg121576
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: ordep on February 23, 2016, 07:39:33 PM: Thanks!
Just now listening to an audio CD on xmms.

And after 3rd track xmms crashed and does not come-up anymore.
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: Juanito on February 23, 2016, 09:52:43 PM: do you get an error message when you try to run xmms from a terminal window?
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: ordep on February 23, 2016, 11:54:46 PM: Quote from: Juanito on February 23, 2016, 09:52:43 PM
do you get an error message when you try to run xmms from a terminal window?

No messages whatsoever.

On reboot xmms started again then hang configuring drive on "check drive". Had to use xkill.

I have it installed as OnDemand.
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: Juanito on February 24, 2016, 12:09:43 AM: xmms needs to be configured for alsa, so it's possible that loading it ondemand might cause problems if it is loaded before alsa is installed/configured.
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: ordep on February 25, 2016, 08:33:28 PM: Made a new install for version 7.0

xmms is playing audio CD nicely except there is no sound.

aplay plays as well w/o any error messages, except there is no sound.

alsamixer all controls are up, same for volume in xmms.

Now I am at a loss. ???

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$ sudo slocate /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa* /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-config.tcz.dep /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-config.tcz.md5.txt /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-config.tcz /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-config.tcz.dep /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-config.tcz.md5.txt /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-modules-4.2.9-tinycore.tcz.dep /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-modules-4.2.9-tinycore.tcz.md5.txt /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-modules-4.2.9-tinycore.tcz /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-modules-4.2.9-tinycore.tcz.dep /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-modules-4.2.9-tinycore.tcz.md5.txt /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-plugins.tcz.dep /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-plugins.tcz.md5.txt /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-plugins.tcz /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-plugins.tcz.dep /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa-plugins.tcz.md5.txt /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa.tcz.dep /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa.tcz.md5.txt /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa.tcz /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa.tcz.dep /mnt/sdb4/tce/optional/alsa.tcz.md5.txt
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: Juanito on February 25, 2016, 09:03:05 PM: A couple of suggestions based on recent posts and my hardware:

* you might have to mute the headphones channel to get sound out of the speakers
* hdmi might be the default device rather than the speakers
* you might need to load the alsa-config extension before the alsa extension (this requires editing the alsa-config dep file locally)

What does "aplay -l" output?
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: ordep on February 25, 2016, 10:18:03 PM: Quote from: Juanito on February 25, 2016, 09:03:05 PM
A couple of suggestions based on recent posts and my hardware:

* you might have to mute the headphones channel to get sound out of the speakers
* hdmi might be the default device rather than the speakers
* you might need to load the alsa-config extension before the alsa extension (this requires editing the alsa-config dep file locally)

What does "aplay -l" output?

* headphones are muted
* hdmi how would I change that?
* that was done
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~$ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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~$ lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: G snd_usb_audio 86016 0 snd_hda_codec_realtek 45056 1 snd_usbmidi_lib 20480 1 snd_usb_audio snd_hda_codec_generic 36864 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_rawmidi 16384 1 snd_usbmidi_lib snd_seq_device 12288 1 snd_rawmidi snd_hda_intel 20480 3 snd_hda_codec 53248 3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 12288 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core 24576 4 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 49152 5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_core snd_timer 20480 2 snd_pcm snd 36864 15 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 12288 1 snd
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: Juanito on February 25, 2016, 10:27:21 PM: It doesn't look like you have hdmi, so you don't have to worry about that.

As long as the "master" is un-muted by alsamixer, it looks like things should work?

Did you try modifying your alsa-config dep file locally to remove the dep on alsa? Once done, reboot then load alsa-config followed by alsa.
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: ordep on February 25, 2016, 11:51:01 PM: Quote from: Juanito on February 25, 2016, 10:27:21 PM
It doesn't look like you have hdmi, so you don't have to worry about that.

As long as the "master" is un-muted by alsamixer, it looks like things should work?

Did you try modifying your alsa-config dep file locally to remove the dep on alsa? Once done, reboot then load alsa-config followed by alsa.

Did as suggested, rebooted, xmms started to play for a split second then hang. xkilled.
Rebooted and extracting extensions stopped at soundtouch. Got only into console. In mc deleted soundtouch.
Rebooted, extracting extensions stopped at sdl-sound. Can get into console. No X.
Seems I am screwed now :'(

If I will recover I will forget about xmms and see if sound will play in firefox..
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: Juanito on February 26, 2016, 12:02:38 AM: When something like this happens, it's better to boot with the boot codes "base norestore".

Deleting extensions like that will cause problems if other extensions depend on them - it would be better to remove extensions from onboot.lst.

For the few seconds xmms played did you hear any sound?

Were you using Xvesa, Xfbdev or Xorg-7.7?

I've never, ever managed to crash xmms :P
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: ordep on February 26, 2016, 12:32:59 AM: Quote from: Juanito on February 26, 2016, 12:02:38 AM
When something like this happens, it's better to boot with the boot codes "base norestore".

Deleting extensions like that will cause problems if other extensions depend on them - it would be better to remove extensions from onboot.lst.

For the few seconds xmms played did you hear any sound?

Were you using Xvesa, Xfbdev or Xorg-7.7?

I've never, ever managed to crash xmms :P

There was a sound.

Possibly Xorg-7.7

And I saw it crash or hang now quite a few times. ::)
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: gerald_clark on February 26, 2016, 04:39:52 AM: How much RAM does the system have?
Run memtest86.
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: ordep on February 26, 2016, 06:31:07 PM: Quote from: gerald_clark on February 26, 2016, 04:39:52 AM
How much RAM does the system have?
Run memtest86.

There is no memtest86, however:
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$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2062100 826224 1235876 198180 54376 440752 -/+ buffers/cache: 331096 1731004 Swap: 505264 0 505264
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: ordep on February 26, 2016, 07:04:11 PM: Version 7.0
Made a complete new install on USB stick from CD.

Installed alsa-config then alsa.

aplay *.wav; no sound. :(

Rebooted

aplay *wav: THERE IS SOUND. :D :D
There is sound now playing a video in firefox.

Will not attempt to load xmms. May be on another stick when I have time.
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: Misalf on February 26, 2016, 07:13:15 PM: Memtest86 is included it many install or live ISOs of several distros. Started from the boot manager, instead of the OS, and checking the memory for errors.
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: Misalf on February 26, 2016, 07:24:28 PM: Maybe it would help some more folks to get ALSA working by adding some more commonly used files from alsa-config.tvz to alsa.tcz (because alsa-config.tcz seems to be the solltion for most of these questions)? Or merging them entirely, eliminating the need for the user to adjust .dep files?
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: Juanito on February 26, 2016, 10:19:04 PM: I'm loathe to merge the extensions as that would mean an additional +/- 1mb of alsa-config extension for those that only require the alsa extension for things to work.

It does look like it might make sense to remove the alsa dep from alsa-config and add an explanation to the info files.
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: Juanito on February 26, 2016, 10:52:32 PM: There is a further issue with some sound hardware (i.e. mine) that, because the default (card 0) is hdmi, sound will not work with Xvesa (with or without alsa-config loaded first):
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$ tce-load -i alsa ncurses.tcz: OK libasound.tcz: OK input-joystick-4.2.9-tinycore.tcz: OK alsa-modules-4.2.9-tinycore.tcz: OK alsa.tcz: OK snd_hda_intel 0000:00:03.0: failed to add i915 component master (-19) $ alsamixer cannot open mixer: No such file or directory
If Xorg-7.7 is loaded before alsa, then everything works OK.
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: Juanito on February 26, 2016, 11:16:53 PM: alsa removed from alsa-config dep file and comments added to alsa/alsa-config info files.
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: gerald_clark on February 27, 2016, 09:57:00 AM: www.memtest86.com/
Title: Re: Can't Play Audio CD
Post by: ordep on February 27, 2016, 07:26:22 PM: Quote from: Juanito on February 26, 2016, 11:16:53 PM
alsa removed from alsa-config dep file and comments added to alsa/alsa-config info files.

On a new USB stick installation loaded only alsa-config. Then rebooted and there is sound.
Without reboot there is no sound.