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No System Sound

Asked by Sadanori Horiguchi

Hi,

I upgraded from Dapper to Edgy, and I noticed that I do not have any system sounds. I thought it might help, so I clean installed Edgy, but the same problem persisted.

It is strange, because I can listen to music on the machine through Rhythm Box, for instance.

I have a cheap USB audio device from GWC.
In Volume Control, only USB Audio Device is listed.
The only thing that Volume Control controls is the level of the sound captured from the microphone. Volume of the sound from the speakers cannot be controlled from this (though this was the same in Dapper).

From System>Setting>Sound, Play System Sounds option is checked, but I cannot "preview" the sounds.

If anybody have any idea why or how to fix this, please help. It just bothers me.

Thank you,

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Sadanori Horiguchi (charbo) said : 		#1

I noticed that when I start gedit from command line, following ALSA related errors show up.

sudo gedit /etc/X11/XvMCConfig
Launching a SCIM daemon with Socket FrontEnd...
Loading simple Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Loading socket FrontEnd module ...
Starting SCIM as daemon ...
GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4

ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3947:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2146:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default

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Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33) said : 		#2

Do you try to boot without any usb device plugged, try to hear if system sounds were ok and then plug usb devices in ? This works, of course, only if you don't need any usb device to play sounds.

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Sadanori Horiguchi (charbo) said : 		#3

Unfortunately, my sound "card" is a USB device, so I couldn't do that.

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Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33) said : 		#4

ok... Do you looked in Preferences>Sounds if your sound card is selected ?

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Sadanori Horiguchi (charbo) said : 		#5

Yes I have, dozens of times.

USB Audio, which was the only device that did not give any errors on
this screen, is selected for all entries.

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Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33) said : 		#6

Maybe should you fill in a bug report, because if it gives no errors, it should work...

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Seiti Yamashiro (seiti-yamashiro) said : 		#7

try this:

$ rm -rf .asoundrc*

It removes all user defined sound related rules (I think, not so sure...)

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