After launching Audacity the system can play no sound.
Subsequently no application can produce any sound, regardless if Audacity is still on or is turned off.
A moderate, continue hissing can be heard in the speakers.
Volume (kmix) doesn’t have any effect.
Audacity can still record and the result file seems to play normally after the system reverts to normal.
Sound reverts to normal after reboot.
The device selections in Audacity seem to have no influence on the results.
The above can be duplicated 100% of the times.
Following Audacity versions were tested:
2.0.2-77.7-x86_64 from Packman repository
2.0.2-66.4-x86_64 from multimedia:apps (openSUSE 12.2)
2.0.0-2.1.2-x86_64 from openSUSE 12.2 OSS
and built from audacity-fullsrc-2.0.2 download.
No difference between them.
Tried several versions of ALSA - no difference. Currently:
~> cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.25.
System Configuration:
OS: Linux 3.4.11-2.16-desktop x86_64
System: openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)
KDE: 4.8.5 (4.8.5) “release 2”
Intel(R) Core™2 Quad CPU Q9650 @ 3.00GHz
Total memory (RAM): 7.8 GiB
Free memory: 6.1 GiB (+ 872.1 MiB Caches)
Free swap: 2.0 GiB
The .asoundrc file existence makes no difference.
Normally, there is no .asoundrc file but making one (with the script) causes this contents:
pcm.Audigy2 { type hw; card Audigy2; }
ctl.Audigy2 { type hw; card Audigy2; }
pcm.HVR950Q { type hw; card HVR950Q; }
ctl.HVR950Q { type hw; card HVR950Q; }
pcm.NVidia { type hw; card NVidia; }
ctl.NVidia { type hw; card NVidia; }
pcm.U0x46d0x808 { type hw; card U0x46d0x808; }
ctl.U0x46d0x808 { type hw; card U0x46d0x808; }
pcm.CODEC { type hw; card CODEC; }
ctl.CODEC { type hw; card CODEC; }
pcm.!default pcm.Audigy2
ctl.!default ctl.Audigy2
That represents the following hardware:
- Audigy2 ZX
- HVR-950Q USB tuner
- NVidia HDMI output of the GeForce 560TI
- Logitech C600 Webcam
- ION Tape2PC USB Cassette Deck
Starting Audacity from terminal shows this:
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition ‘cards.Audigy2.pcm.hdmi.0:CARD=0,AES0=4,AES1=130,AES2=0,AES3=2’
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hdmi
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition ‘cards.Audigy2.pcm.hdmi.0:CARD=0,AES0=4,AES1=130,AES2=0,AES3=2’
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hdmi
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition ‘cards.Audigy2.pcm.modem.0:CARD=0’
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline:CARD=0,DEV=0
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition ‘cards.Audigy2.pcm.modem.0:CARD=0’
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline:CARD=0,DEV=0
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition ‘cards.Audigy2.pcm.modem.0:CARD=0’
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM phoneline
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition ‘cards.Audigy2.pcm.modem.0:CARD=0’
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM phoneline
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Expression ‘snd_pcm_hw_params_set_format( pcm, hwParams, Pa2AlsaFormat( hostFormat ) )’ failed in ‘src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c’, line: 1086
Expression ‘snd_pcm_hw_params_set_format( pcm, hwParams, Pa2AlsaFormat( hostFormat ) )’ failed in ‘src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c’, line: 1086
Expression ‘stream->playback.pcm’ failed in ‘src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c’, line: 3875
Expression ‘stream->playback.pcm’ failed in ‘src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c’, line: 3875
Expression ‘stream->playback.pcm’ failed in ‘src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c’, line: 3875
Expression ‘stream->playback.pcm’ failed in ‘src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c’, line: 3875
Expression ‘stream->playback.pcm’ failed in ‘src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c’, line: 3875
Expression ‘stream->playback.pcm’ failed in ‘src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c’, line: 3875
Expression ‘stream->playback.pcm’ failed in ‘src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c’, line: 3875
Expression ‘stream->playback.pcm’ failed in ‘src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c’, line: 3875
Expression ‘stream->playback.pcm’ failed in ‘src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c’, line: 3875
Experimented with jack and made these disappear but without fixing the original problem:
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Out of ideas! Any help or suggestion appreciated. TIA