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Thread: Sound stopped working after switching to Awesome (unrelated, likely)

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    Sound stopped working after switching to Awesome (unrelated, likely)

    So I tried out awesome wm the other day, switching from Unity. Everything was working great, but then it froze, hard. I restarted it (held the power button down on my desktop), and it took forever to boot up. It sat at a blinking cursor for about 3 minutes, and I figured it was dead or something, so I restarted it again.

    When it comes back up, it sits at the same blinking cursor for a while. The display driver boots up, it increases the resolution and mirrors to both monitors.

    It sits for a little bit longer, but then it starts yelling commands like "udevd killed /sbin/perfmon PCI device" and "udevd killed /sbin/perfmon USB device". I know this is going to be bad from this point...

    It takes about 10 minutes to boot the whole system up - it sits and sits, until it realizes that something won't respond (at least that's my hunch). Then it goes forward. It sits on the Ubuntu login screen for a long time too, the password box is unselectable, and it takes about 3 minutes for it to do something with that.

    So I get my computer booted up into Unity, no sound plays. Logout, back to awesome, no sound. Restart, no sound (still takes a while, although it does't say that stuff about udevd and perfmon now, at least not visibly). Getting a little frustrated, I see that rm -r ~/.pulse* can help for hard resets, remove those, restart, no dice.

    I try to update stuff - dpkg --configure -a or whatever, it actually found some pulseaudio stuff, but after a restart, it didn't work.

    I try to update the kernel, nope.

    I was on Ubuntu 12.04.2, try upgrading to 12.10, nope. Nothing.

    My sound card is found by lspci, but not by alsa. I'm not sure what the heck is going on.

    uname -r
    3.5.0-27-generic

    cat /etc/issue
    Ubuntu 12.10 \n \l

    aplay -l
    aplay: device_list:252: no soundcards found...

    lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio"
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
    Memory at f3ff4000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

    00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

    And alsa config used to be in /etc/perfmon.d/alsa-***, but that seems to have moved in 12.10

    Any help would be great!

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    Re: Sound stopped working after switching to Awesome (unrelated, likely)

    Okay, I was pretty close with my estimates! It does take about 10 minutes for my computer to boot. I tried to edit the boot options to not be quiet so I could get a better idea of what was going on, but for some reason it didn't work.

    Here's my bootup from bootchart (note: very large image). This is a pretty handy tool - I found out it was waiting to mount some non-existent network shares (that's what mountall was trying to do I think).

    So I know next to nothing about the Linux boot process, is modprobe supposed to take up that much time in the boot process?

    Also, I found the file that I thought moved. For some reason I was looking for perfmon, when I wanted to find modprobe. Here's what it says -

    cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
    # autoloader aliases
    install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-0
    install sound-slot-1 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-1
    install sound-slot-2 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-2
    install sound-slot-3 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-3
    install sound-slot-4 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-4
    install sound-slot-5 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-5
    install sound-slot-6 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-6
    install sound-slot-7 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-7

    # Cause optional modules to be loaded above generic modules
    install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-ioctl32 ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq ; }
    #
    # Workaround at bug #499695 (reverted in Ubuntu see LP #319505)
    install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-pcm-oss ; : ; }
    install snd-mixer /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-mixer $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-mixer-oss ; : ; }
    install snd-seq /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-seq $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-midi ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-oss ; : ; }
    #
    install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
    # Cause optional modules to be loaded above sound card driver modules
    install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-emu10k1-synth ; }
    install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq ; }

    # Load saa7134-alsa instead of saa7134 (which gets dragged in by it anyway)
    install saa7134 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install saa7134 $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist saa7134-alsa ; : ; }
    # Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0
    options bt87x index=-2
    options cx88_alsa index=-2
    options saa7134-alsa index=-2
    options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
    options snd-intel8x0m index=-2
    options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
    options snd-usb-audio index=-2
    options snd-usb-caiaq index=-2
    options snd-usb-ua101 index=-2
    options snd-usb-us122l index=-2
    options snd-usb-usx2y index=-2
    # Ubuntu #62691, enable MPU for snd-cmipci
    options snd-cmipci mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388
    # Keep snd-pcsp from being loaded as first soundcard
    options snd-pcsp index=-2
    # Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard
    options snd-usb-audio index=-2
    options snd-hda-intel model=generic



    As far as other fixes go - I tried this one but it didn't work. I still get "dummy output" as the only option under the sound settings.

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