Oh no, not another sound problem.

[adelsin]

I'm having trouble getting sound of my debian system. Trying to use mplayer and alsa. This is a pretty simple debian core. Not even to sure if I have a GUI installed on it. ( I do all of my work with this box via ssh )

Anyways, when I use mplayer, it acts like it is playing it, however, no sound from the speakers. (WTF?!) Speakers are pulled from a known working machine and are powered on with volume full cranked.

Here is the output of the following commands in hopes someone could aid me in this issue.

/sbin/lsmod
lspci -v | grep audio
uname -r
cat /proc/asound/cards (if applicable)
cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat (if applicable)

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Module Size Used by
snd_intel8x0 29852 0
snd_ac97_codec 82848 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 2432 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 38048 0
snd_mixer_oss 15232 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 65928 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 19972 1 snd_pcm
snd 45412 6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_ oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 8928 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10248 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
ppdev 8708 0
lp 10948 0
button 6800 0
ac 5252 0
battery 9732 0
ipv6 213984 14
dm_snapshot 15644 0
dm_mirror 18000 0
dm_mod 48952 2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
sbp2 20488 0
loop 14216 0
evdev 9088 0
parport_pc 31524 1
parport 32200 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
psmouse 34568 0
pcspkr 2816 0
serio_raw 6532 0
amd64_agp 12036 0
sis_agp 8452 1
agpgart 29360 2 amd64_agp,sis_agp
shpchp 32796 0
pci_hotplug 28088 1 shpchp
eth1394 17540 0
ext3 116488 1
jbd 47272 1 ext3
ide_disk 14848 3
sata_sis 8452 0
libata 87700 1 sata_sis
scsi_mod 121992 2 sbp2,libata
ohci1394 30000 0
ieee1394 85048 3 sbp2,eth1394,ohci1394
sis900 21120 0
mii 5376 1 sis900
ehci_hcd 27144 0
ohci_hcd 17540 0
usbcore 109444 3 ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
sis5513 12552 0 [permanent]
generic 4996 0 [permanent]
ide_core 107760 3 ide_disk,sis5513,generic
thermal 13576 0
processor 23724 1 thermal
fan 4868 0


debian:/home/kammeyet# lspci -v | grep audio
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
debian:/home/kammeyet#

debian:/home/kammeyet# uname -r
2.6.18-6-486
debian:/home/kammeyet#

debian:/home/kammeyet# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [SI7012 ]: ICH - SiS SI7012
SiS SI7012 with ALC658D at 0xa000, irq 225
debian:/home/kammeyet#

debian:/home/kammeyet# cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.12rc1 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux debian 2.6.18-6-486 #1 Sun Feb 10 22:06:33 UTC 2008 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
SiS SI7012 with ALC658D at 0xa000, irq 225

Audio devices:
0: SiS SI7012 (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: Realtek ALC658D
debian:/home/kammeyet#

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The output I use when trying to use mplayer is as follows:


debian:/home/kammeyet# mplayer -ao alsa -vo null blah.wma
MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3100+ (Family: 15, Model: 12, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing blah.wma.
ASF file format detected.
Clip info:
name: "Highway Blues"
author: Marc Seales, composer. New Stories. Ernie Watts, saxophone.
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 8003->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
================================================== ========================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
===== PAUSE =====
A: 57.4 (57.4) of 93.0 (01:33.0) 1.1%


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Thank you in advance for your assistance. I need sound in here for a perl app I am working on.

v/r,
Adelsin

[coopstah13]

try to install gstreamer plugins

[adelsin]

try to install gstreamer plugins

Once I get it installed and assuming I don't already have it installed, what else is required to associate it with ALSA. Or am I to expect a magic fix?

-adel

[coopstah13]

gstreamer plugins are used by mplayer, not sure if it would be a magic fix, I have no experience with trying to play sounds over the network

[adelsin]

How would initiating a command from ssh be any different than initiating the same command from the terminal line?

[tetsujin]

Have you checked the mixer settings?

[adelsin]

I have checked the alsa mixer. I have the PCM, and Main volume at max. As well as everything else that is currently turned on.

[coopstah13]

i'm guessing that the commands aren't telling the OS they want it to play on the machine you are connected to, and it is trying to send them back to you

[adelsin]

I'll hook up a monitor and keyboard to it later. If no sound comes from that, I'll assume that my problem is with the driver itself. the application I am using (mplay) utilitizes the command line to play the music. The mplay application also states it's using alsa... and you can confirm that with a "-ao alsa", which I also have tried.

v/r,
Adel