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alsa-driver package

Only root gets sound access in 11.10

Asked by Rohan Almeida

I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 today. As a normal user I'm not able to get any sound output. As root user I can.

Everything was fine in 11.04

$ lspci
05:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)

$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_ice1712 65066 0
snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx 13163 1 snd_ice1712
snd_ak4xxx_adda 18436 2 snd_ice1712,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx
snd_cs8427 13965 1 snd_ice1712
snd_ac97_codec 105614 1 snd_ice1712

The ice1712 module seems to have loaded fine.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; whoami; groups

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Rohan Almeida (rohan-0) said : 		#2

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric

$ whoami
rohan

$ groups
rohan adm dialout cdrom audio plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Try:

killall pulseaudio; sudo rm -r ~/.pulse*

Then wait a little while and try sound. Is it ok?

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Rohan Almeida (rohan-0) said : 		#4

Nope. Doesn't work.

Running mplayer on an mp3 file just hangs (as a normal user)

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Rohan Almeida (rohan-0) said : 		#5

I doubt it has to do with pulseaudio.

The following command too hangs (as normal user)

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

As root,

# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: M2496 [M Audio Audiophile 24/96], device 0: ICE1712 multi [ICE1712 multi]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

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Rohan Almeida (rohan-0) said : 		#6

I uninstalled alsa-base and alsa-utils and reinstalled and sound is fine now.