Am Sonntag 21 August 2011, 04:48:49 schrieb Dale: > Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I recently bought a Zotac Barebone ZBOX HD-AD02 AMD E-350 and installed > > Gentoo on it, what is working more or less very well except the sound. I > > did everything according to gentoo and gentoowiki docs, I installed (due > > to laziness) a gentoo-sources kernel with genkernel and Sabayon linux > > standard configuration, and I am using pulseaudio, but when I launch > > firefox or chromium from console and play some sounds, I get lots of > > these error messages: > > > > "ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave" > > > > I already googled for it but didn't find something helpful. The Zbox has > > a HDMI and a standard device: > > > > # lspci -v | grep -i audio > > 00:01.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device 1314 > > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev > > 40) > > > > # cat /proc/asound/cards > > > > 0 [Generic ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic > > > > HD-Audio Generic at > > 0xfeb44000 irq 40 > > > > 1 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB > > > > HDA ATI SB at 0xfeb40000 > > irq 16 > > > > You can find the complete alsa-info output at > > http://paste.pocoo.org/show/461744/ > > > > For me, the interesting part is this section: > > > > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** > > card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] > > > > Subdevices: 1/1 > > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > > > card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog] > > > > Subdevices: 1/1 > > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > > > card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital] > > > > Subdevices: 1/1 > > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > > > Is is possible that ff and chromium are sending data to HDMI since it is > > card 0? If you think, it would be helpful to disable card 0 or change > > the order, please tell me how to do it? > > > > I highly appreciate all kinds of help! > > > > Kind regards, > > der Max > > A silly question for a common problem. You did unmute the volume > right? The default is to have everything muted so it is very common for > folks to forget that little but important detail. > > Also, on one of my rigs, I had to unmute with both Kimix and alsamixer. > > Just a thought. I've done this myself.
and don't forget to mute spdif optical raw and try without pulseaudio first. > > Dale > > :-) :-) -- #163933
