ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ) is an API of audio functions for the linux platform.
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pulse-audio does not recognise my Logitech mic and my Webcam mic
I use the (great) AK5370 microphone for Skype, but it is not recognized by my archlinux i86_64.
It also fails to recognize the mic on my Logitech Webcam (PTZ, which I do not use).
Both are connected ...
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How can i find the correct name using aplay, or pacmd or something else for my microphone and sound out put, to apply in asound.conf?
I need to write a deafult mic and default speakeroutput in the asound conf file. But i dont know exactly how do i find my external sound card or microphone devices name? So that on reboot or ...
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How do I detect wheter the audio cable is connected?
I'm using Ubuntu Lucid (10.04). In my shell script running as root I want to detect whether an audio cable (analog jack) is connected to the laptop or not. How do I do that? I don't need a portable ...
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Is there any gnome-shell mixer icon relying on alsa and not pulseaudio?
So, long story short, when I installed Mint 12 on my Dell laptop I realized my HDA-intel sound board have problems with pulseaudio. I uninstalled pulseaudio and got my sound back, but removing ...
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Espeak showing some warnings and Input output error
I am running espeak on Linux Mint 14.
Whenever I try to run it, it shows following warnings ( Not errors as it works correctly ).
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM ...
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Saving alsa settings
After a new update, there is no sound by default in my Debian Squeeze box until running alsactl init, but whenever rebooting the computer I have to run the command again to gain sound.
How can I ...
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Command line audio player that exits immediately after file finished playing back?
I am experimenting with audio players in the command line, and noticed something weird: if the sound is very short, most players will take up to a second or two after playback has finished, before ...
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Linux via Buildroot doesn't include alsa-utils
After following these instructions from here and from here, my booted Linux does not include ALSA-Utils like "aplay". But I have set all ALSA options. Any idea what's wrong?
I also found this but I ...
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Unexpectedly lost speaker output. Headphone output works fine
Yesterday when I opened my laptop I noticed that I no longer had sound from the built-in speakers. I carefully checked settings in Sound Preferences, and then dropped to shell and looked in ...
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Change sampling rate in ALSA
I'm a Computer Audiophile, I've used Windows (with ASIO4ALL)and OSX for Audio. Now I'm making Ubuntu 13 my HTPC/Stereo Audio. To begin with I disabled Pulse audio and using GooMusicplayer with ALSA.
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Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1 - crackling sound
I am very new user to the Linux world. I istalled newest Ubuntu on my old ASUS A7CC laptop. I would like to use also my older external sound interface Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1. I am able to ...
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Does alsa depend on the kernel version?
Lately I had nothing but trouble with my sound setup. The full chain looks like this:
alsa (pulse plugin)-> pulseaudio (jack plugin) -> jackd -> firewire soundcard
This works fine, except ...
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Choppy sound with flashpayer
After a number of updates, including upgrading to flashplayer 11 and kernel 3.8.2 sound from flashplayer and skype has become choppy.
Setup
In my setup I have .ascoundrc set up to use pulseaudio ...
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Low sound volume on Lenovo T520 under Fedora 16
I'm having trouble hearing anything at all under Fedora 16 on this Lenovo T520. Everything in alsamixer is at 100% (both pulseaudio and card). I installed Windows 7 on the laptop to check if the same ...
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Setting up surround sound with optical out
I have centos 6.3 running on this pc. the built in sound card is detected normally and is a 7.1 card with all speakers listed. It includes a optical out as well as hdmi for the built in video. It ...
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Internal microphone doesn't work on Dell Vostro 3360
I've got Dell Vostro 3360 laptop, and internal mic doesn't work. I use 3.8
series kernel.
When I try to record sound from mic I get only weird noise. All sliders in
alsamixer are 100% and capture is ...
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How can I switch to my USB headset automagically when it's plugged in?
I'm running Funtoo Linux, a Gentoo derivative. My two new Plantronics USB headsets (one wired, one wireless) work nicely. I plug one in, ALSA notices it, and if I manually set an application to use ...
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Why does Arch Linux keep Windows headphone mute
I have an Windows 7 installed, and headphones works perfectly.
Few days ago, I have Arch Linux installed along with Win7.
headphone works fine under Arch Linux
but
When I turned to Win7 from ...
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Change PulseAudio Input/Output from Shell?
I have a set of nice wireless headphones which I use from time to time, in addition to my speakers and normal microphone.
I'd like to write a script to switch between one input and output source and ...
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How to configure buildroot to add a sound device?
I've used a given board configuration to reconfigure it for my individual board. My board has a CS4270 sound device of Cirrus Logic. My uImage is booting successfully on my target hardware, but an ...
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Pulseaudio rapidly switches ouputs at high volumes
I'm using Pulseaudio. The image is of the Output Devices tab and shows the Port set to Analog Output. This is fine and works great. There's another option called Headphones but if you try and set the ...
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problem with alsa installed
I'm using linux for the first time. I installed alsa 1.0.24 in my system running Ubuntu 12.04. After installing, I tried to play some files using command aplay -vv abc.wav, it started playing but I ...
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amixer - How to change recording channel?
So fat, I am setting up microphone settings :
$ amixer set 'Rear Mic' 90% mute cap
$ amixer set 'Rear Mic Boost' 80%
But, after some sys. update, my default recoding chanell changed to 'Front Mic' ...
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ALSA dummy device - how to configure?
I am working on an audio stream between two virtual servers. For that, I have set up a dummy soundcard (as the vservers don't have a hw card) using modprobe snd-dummy.
That seems to work fine - I am ...
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ALSA/ASoC: How to correctly load devices/drivers?
I am using Buildroot to build an embedded Linux (2.6.39.2) system for the NXP LPC3250 microcontroller.
Right now, I'm trying to get ALSA/ASoC up and running, but I'm having some issues with getting ...
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Sound not working when both the sound card and HDMI use the Intel HDA driver. How to exchange their device loading order?
I have an Acer Aspire One 522 netbook which has an Intel HDA sound card based on the Conexant CX20584 chipset. Although KDE does output sound when starting up, flash and probably many other apps which ...
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No sound when attached to docking station
I have been using Linux and Ubuntu only since the last two months on my (2006) Sony Vaio VGN A617S laptop which is going pretty well on Ubuntu 10.10. When installing Ubuntu audio did get installed ...
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Configuring default alsa device (hw:0,0) in asoundrc
I am using a multimedia application (XBMC Frodo RC3) that does not allow me to select custom pcm device. It just asks the hardware device (in this case it is hw:0,0).
Given this limitation I have to ...
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Does SDL require any sound server like PulseAudio to play audio?
I'm trying to make an MP3 player on top of the Linux kernel and busybox using the SDL and SMPEG libraries.
Does SDL work on top of the kernel or it needs PulseAudio?
I have just built a C program ...
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What is the alsamixer of Pulse Audio?
I just installed Pulse Audio over my ALSA installation. Is there a Pulse Audio equivalent of alsamixer that I can use for tasks such as changing the microphone gain?
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How do I fix a noisy input device (Internal Mic)? snd_hda_intel - debug included
As the title says, I'm having trouble with a very noisy audio input device - the internal mic or any plugged in mics.
So far I've narrowed it down to an problem in ALSA since my debug info is showing ...
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What Linux distro is good for music and well supported?
I'm pretty disappointed with Ubuntu. It's never been easy to sort out the mess that is Alsa / Jack / whatever and have it work with Pd, Supercollider, Ardour, Lillypad.
I've upgraded to the latest ...
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Pipe system sound to another computer
I have no speakers in my PC (Cent-OS 5.5) but there is a stereo speaker connected to the computer next to my computer (also Cent-OS 5.5). Both computers are networked. Is there any way to pipe my ...
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Turn on PC speaker after resume
After resuming from suspend my PC speaker becomes silent. I need to run alsamixer and arbitrarily adjust its volume either up or down for it to come back again. But if I suspend and then resume a ...
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Is there an easy way to switch playback soundcards?
I recently purchased the roccat kulo headset which comes with a nice USB soundcard, completely functional under linux :). Howsoever I now struggle to easily siwtch between my laptops integrated ...
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How do I know if my microphone is mute or unmute when I have more than one microphone?
How do I find out if my microphone is muted or unmuted, when I have more than one microphone such as Motherboard, USB and HDMI?
1) I can't find it with this:
$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [PCH ...
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No sound with the newest kernel version - is this a kernel bug or something else?
I have an external USB sound card on a Fedora 17 system (64 bit). It stopped playing sound after I updated the kernel to 3.5.4-1 (the problem persists under 3.5.4-2).
As the sound card still plays ...
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How to force ALSA output as single-channel?
My speakers are broken and play at different loudness from time to time. This means that the off-center parts of music sound wrong. How can I force all sound to be centered, so that the two speakers ...
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My audio device not working
I have been setting up a new CrunchBang Linux and my sound doesn't work. When I type lspci -v command and alplay -l command in command prompt I can see that my sound card is connected and detected.
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Sound not working in Debian except in google chrome and test utilities
Yesterday, I had Archlinux on my Dell Latitude E6520 and the sound was working perfectly fine (I even had the loud beep I couldn't get rid of).
Today, I installed Debian and alsa. The first surprise ...
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No sound in USB headphones using fedora 16
The volume control buttons on the usb headphone work, they can increment or decrement the system sound.
However the headphone have no sound. How to make it work?
kernel 3.2, pusleaudio is used by ...
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Samson Meteor Mic under Linux/ALSA
Has anybody gotten a Samson Meteor Mic working under Linux/ALSA?
I tried to google it but I found no mention of Samson Meteor under Linux at all.
Kernel/ALSA/Audacity see the device. Unfortunately I ...
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Gnome-sound-applet not detecting sound card
Everything was working until today, the gnome-sound-applet does not detect any sound card. Alsamixer however is working and I can change volume.
I noticed that pulseaudio is not running and that ...
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Xorg key clicks?
I've currently got Fedora 9 on my home PC (yes, I know its quite old - but hell I only reboot it every 6 months - nevermind upgrading!) . My only niggle is that keyboard I've got has quite a different ...
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Command line audio - piping for simultaneous playback and recording
I am trying to generate sound data, convert it and store it to a WAV format. I'm almost there - except I'd like to hear the generated sound "while" it is being "recorded".
This command line just ...
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Finding the current speaker volume (signal strength)
I'm trying to create a widget for awesome wm that controls and monitors volume.
Getting and setting the speaker volume is easy in ALSA and PulseAudio, but how about getting the actual signal ...
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How to change mixing of channels by pulse audio / alsa
I have a recent problem with my sound configuration. Basically, it's way too loud until I set the volume below 10%. And then it's very quickly too silent. Using the alsa mixer, I can set the headphone ...
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How to have CoreAudio from Mac to Linux/Unix?
After using Alsa and PulseAudio for a while, I feel they are not yet strong enough for Audio capture and audio playback.
When I test with loud-speaker and microphone, there is self feedback-loop.
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How can I set a top limit for the PCM value when changing the loudness with pulseaudio?
when I change the loudness with pulseaudio, pulseaudio acts on several of the values I can see when I use alsamixer -c0
I have a problem: when the PCM loudness exceeds a certain value (80%), the ...
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Can someone diagnose this JACK error message?
OK. I start JACK without starting the JACK server. I get:
23:09:22.730 Patchbay deactivated.
23:09:22.765 Statistics reset.
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot ...
