Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide

[medico1849]

I have a problem. On a fresh install of Kubuntu, my sound works fine, but as soon as I install the drivers for my video card (nvidia 8800gt) there is no sound.

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC882 Analog [ALC882 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC882 Digital [ALC882 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0[/INDENT]

lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff
Memory behind bridge: e4000000-e7ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c0000000-00000000dfffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at e100 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at e200 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at e000 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5006
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at ea104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device a002
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at ea100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: ea000000-ea0fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: e8000000-e9ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000ea200000-00000000ea2fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at e300 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at e400 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at e500 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5006
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at ea105000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device b002
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at f000 [size=16]
I/O ports at fc00 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5001
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3
Memory at ea106000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at 0500 [size=32]

00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device b002
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at e700 [size=8]
I/O ports at e800 [size=4]
I/O ports at e900 [size=8]
I/O ports at ea00 [size=4]
I/O ports at eb00 [size=16]
I/O ports at ec00 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8800 GT (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Unknown device 19f1:06dc
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=512M]
Memory at e4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at b000 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at e7000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device b000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device b000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at c000 [size=8]
I/O ports at c100 [size=4]
I/O ports at c200 [size=8]
I/O ports at c300 [size=4]
I/O ports at c400 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>

04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device e000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 507
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at e9000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at ea200000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

If anyone has any ideas as to why it doesn't work after installing the drivers for the video card, the help would be appreciated!


Eric

[Imageweaver]

Hi
This is my first post out here and I am VERY new to Ubuntu. I have no sound and I am having trouble finding the ALSA driver at http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ I got to that step fine but I can't get past it.

I can find the soundcards installed on the system they are as follows:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Can anyone help?
Thanks!

[philk949]

You may find the thread below helpful. It addresses the problem in some detail and was a great help to me, mainly through the efforts of bobnutfield.

Phil


http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=873594

[Dyffo]

Bumping this post since I think it is ready to be used by people having trouble with sound. I'll do my best to field questions and make changes to this guide as needed. If you are an experienced Ubuntu user, please help out with testing, verifying, and helping people who use this guide.

Thanks in advance

I first posted this enquiry under " Multi Media and Video" but now feel that this has become a General question.
After I installed upgrades I lost my Sound with the error message " NO VOLUME CONTROL G STREAMER PLUGINS AND OR DEVICES FOUND ". It seems that there are many of us with this problem. I have tried numerous suggestions in various posts - but nothing has resolved my problem.
I have found however that if I run UBUNTU from my installation CD - I have sound !!!!!. So can anyone tell me how I can reinstall UBUNTU from the cd or wherever WITHOUT LOSING ALL MY DATA AND PROGRAMMES, which have taken many months to get together.
I wait in eager anticipation for any helpful suggestions.I have tried ALL suggestions made by Lord Raiden in his sticky - but nothing so far resolves my problem

[Dyffo]

THIS SOLVED MY PROBLEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install linux-ubuntu-modules-$(uname -r)

[steffenomak]

I have tried the guide and at general help (1) I was success then I did the alsa mixer thing and even tried getting alsa drivers. After that I did Alsa driver compilation the automatic one and didn't get any errors. But on general help (4) and get stuck. Sound worked on the older ubuntu. I get stuck and can't find my chipset.

steffenomak@steffenomak-desktop:~$ aplay -l
**** Lista över PLAYBACK hårdvaruenheter ****
kort 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], enhet 0: ALC882 Analog [ALC882 Analog]
Underordnade enheter: 1/1
Underordnad enhet nr. 0: subdevice #0
kort 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], enhet 1: ALC882 Digital [ALC882 Digital]
Underordnade enheter: 1/1
Underordnad enhet nr. 0: subdevice #0

0:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 Host Bridge (rev a2)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0

00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0

00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a2)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0

00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:01.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:01.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:01.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:01.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:01.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:02.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:02.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0

00:02.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 PCI Express bridge (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: ca000000-cdffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000b0000000-00000000bfffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
I/O ports at fc00 [size=128]

00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus (rev a2)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel, IRQ 255
I/O ports at f800 [size=64]
I/O ports at f400 [size=64]
I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a1) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at cffff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at cfffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE (rev a1) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Unknown device f0de:c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
[virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
[virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
I/O ports at ec00 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at 09f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0bf0 [size=4]
I/O ports at 0970 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0b70 [size=4]
I/O ports at d800 [size=16]
Memory at cfffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0e.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 09e0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0be0 [size=4]
I/O ports at 0960 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0b60 [size=4]
I/O ports at c400 [size=16]
Memory at cfffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0e.2 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at c000 [size=8]
I/O ports at bc00 [size=4]
I/O ports at b800 [size=8]
I/O ports at b400 [size=4]
I/O ports at b000 [size=16]
Memory at cfffb000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0f.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00008000-00008fff
Memory behind bridge: cfd00000-cfdfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: cfe00000-cfefffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0f.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at cfff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:12.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 222
Memory at cfff7000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at a800 [size=8]
Memory at cfff6000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Memory at cfff5000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTS] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Unknown device 2252
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at cc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at ca000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at 9c00 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at cd000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

02:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device c55e
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
Memory at cfdff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at cfdf8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

[zoe-scutterbug]

hiya please kindly help

once upon a time i had sound ...life was cool ...everything worked beautifully ...oh happy days.
But then I messed things up ...such a mess that i haven't a clue how i did it...and the more i try to fix it ...( i have tried following as best a techno dummy can this and a few guides on this list) the less it seemed that sound is likely to return...it seems to be getting worse. Even tried a big reinstall...think i might do it again...and be more selective. I run Opengeu 98% of the time , but i also have UbuntuStudio, Xubuntu and Kubuntu installed too ....thats poss part of my problem...why have one application when you can have five.

Streaming sound on secondlife comes out in a stuttering mess.. but i get no sound on bbc iplayer or Zatto ...these all worked ..my dvd player seems to work for VLC but no longer for XBMC ...

i use flock mostly but also firefox

i have an nvidia graphics card
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81cb
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fe028000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>


I also recently brought a usb external creative blaster surround 5.1 (driver emu10k1) when i started not getting stuttering sound...but it is as quiet as a deadfish...with a little blue light to show me it is as least on


anyways lets start at the miserable beginning

zoe@****-knows:~$ aplay -L
ALSA lib conf.c:1589:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:36:0:Unexpected char
ALSA lib conf.c:2850:(snd_config_hook_load) /home/zoe/.asoundrc may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:2714:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:3079:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration
zoe@****-knows:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
ALSA lib conf.c:1589:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:36:0:Unexpected char
ALSA lib conf.c:2850:(snd_config_hook_load) /home/zoe/.asoundrc may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:2714:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:3079:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration
aplay: device_list:214: control open (0): Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:1589:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:36:0:Unexpected char
ALSA lib conf.c:2850:(snd_config_hook_load) /home/zoe/.asoundrc may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:2714:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:3079:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration
aplay: device_list:214: control open (1): Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:1589:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:36:0:Unexpected char
ALSA lib conf.c:2850:(snd_config_hook_load) /home/zoe/.asoundrc may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:2714:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:3079:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration
aplay: device_list:214: control open (2): Invalid argument
zoe@****-knows:~$


so i look in my .asoundrc file

pcm.!default {
type pulse
}

ctl.!default {
type pulse
}

pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}

ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}

pcm.equalized {
type plug
slave.pcm "equalizer";
}

pcm.equalizer {
type ladspa

# The output from the EQ can either go direct to a hardware device
# (if you have a hardware mixer, e.g. SBLive/Audigy) or it can go
# to the software mixer shown here.
slave.pcm "plughw"
#slave.pcm "plug:dmix"


???????
and i haven't a clue

heaps of appreciation in advance

zoe

[Yellow Pasque]

The last '{' curly brace doesn't have a matching one to close it '}'

pcm.equalizer {

[zoe-scutterbug]

Thanks)

the curly bracket is properly closed

I now have good sound from my applications, zattoo and iplayer

but streaming sound from secondlife is warbly/stuttering ...which is a big poo.
since i waste way too much time watching my avatar dance in cool clubs...
(daft how much pointless fun it is) ....SOLVED

thanks

zoe

[hopkinsjeni]

I have been following your help guide but I have got stuck. I tried to uninstall the ALSA drivers following your *fresh* kernal instructions and my terminal keeps saying

E: The package deskbar-applet needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

I unfortuantely have no idea what this means or whether it is the cause of my sound not working but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jeni