Brand new clean gentoo install w/ kde 4.6 When I login to KDE it says: audio playback device hda ati sb (alc892 analog) does not work and kmix will not run. However alsamixer & alsainfo work fine and indicate the sound card is there and working. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install gentoo on asus m4a88t-v evo 2. login to kde 3. Actual Results: no sound Expected Results: sound >emerge --info Portage 2.1.9.42 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.5, libc-0-r0, 2.6.39-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.39-gentoo-r1-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_965_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 virtual/os-headers: 0 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://barad-dur/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 acl alsa amd64 avi berkdb bzip2 cdrw cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus divx4linux dri dts dv dvd dvdread dvdrw encode fame fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk hpijs iconv imlib ipv6 java jpeg jpg kde ldap live matroska mmx modules mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 readline realmedia session sse sse2 ssl static-libs subtitles svg sysfs tcpd theora truetype udev ukit unicode usb vorbis wmp x264 xanim xine xorg xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="nvidia" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nvidia fbdev" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 277265 [details] output from alsainfo
also, I found this in /var/log/kdm.log klauncher(2115) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found. Check if you have started the DBUS server. kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting! kdmgreet(2109)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): KSystemTimeZones: ktimezoned initialize() D-Bus call failed: "Not connected to D-Bus server" don't know if its related or another problem
I have enabled root login to kde, and found that the sound card works. My user id is member of group: audio. what else must I do to access the sound card?
I emerged sox. I login as normal user - no joy. Then I su - and run play /data/Documents/sound/WAV/autodestruct.wav it works perfectly (except my computer does not actually autodestruct :) if I run same command as normal user I get: ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:4633:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default play FAIL formats: can't open output file `default': snd_pcm_open error: No such file or directory
I have built a 2nd system (w/ the same mother board) and have the problem. In addition, I have temporarily solved the problem with this ugly hack: sphere->Curr Dir: /etc/local.d >cat chmod_sound.start chmod -R ug+rw /dev/dsp chmod -R ug+rw /dev/snd/* chown -R root:audio /dev/dsp chown -R root:audio /dev/snd/* now users in audio group can use the sound card!
(In reply to comment #5) > I have built a 2nd system (w/ the same mother board) and have the problem. In > addition, I have temporarily solved the problem with this ugly hack: > > sphere->Curr Dir: /etc/local.d > >cat chmod_sound.start > chmod -R ug+rw /dev/dsp > chmod -R ug+rw /dev/snd/* > chown -R root:audio /dev/dsp > chown -R root:audio /dev/snd/* > > now users in audio group can use the sound card! Looks like you found the problem yourself. To take automatically care of the permissions you will need to globally enable the consolekit useflag and start consolekit plus dependencies on boot. (Which is why we usually require it for kde.) What you're doing is exactly the old-fashioned workaround. Not our problem.
