Ubuntu
alsa-driver package

No system notification in Feisty

Bug #106516 reported by JW on 2007-04-14

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	alsa-driver (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I upgraded from Kubuntu 6.10 to 7.04.
Linux fronk 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Fri Apr 13 16:33:26 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

After the upgrade, I get no system notifications.

I can play music through Amarok, but not through XMMS.

02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
        Subsystem: Creative Labs SB0312 Audigy LS
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (500ns min, 5000ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
        Region 0: I/O ports at df80 [size=32]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

Please let me know what other information you would like me to provide.

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JW (arch0njw) wrote on 2007-04-14:

dmesg.txt Edit (24.3 KiB, text/plain)

dmesg output (shortly after startup).

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JW (arch0njw) wrote on 2007-04-15:

I tried a reinstalation of alsa per the instructions here: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Comprehensive_Sound_Problems_Solutions_Guide

I'm still experiencing the same problem.

Something else I've noticed is that if I make a change in the sound system area and restart the sound system it will just loop over restarting. For example, if I change the MIDID device. I can enable/disable the sound system and it will restart ok -- though even disabled, I can play music through Amarok...

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JW (arch0njw) wrote on 2007-11-18:

The system in question has a built-in sound card and a PCI card. The problem was that the PCI card (my preferred) was not set to the default sound card in ALSA. I searched the web for the issue and found this:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/how-do-you-change-the-default-sound-card-in-kubuntu-499520/

From what I could tell (I'm not a guru...) the PCI card was the default. I don't know what these steps kick in the head, but it worked.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2007-12-03:

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.