13.2 - USB speakers problem

[mimosa]

I couldn't get this to work with earlier versions of Salix either, as far as I remember - or maybe I did but then my headphones wouldn't work. It's not the end of the world, but my other speakers have broken so I got this USB one out of the drawer to have another go.

When I say - "USB" - I think they are supposed to "plug and play" independently of the computer's sound card, if that is possible. In any case, alsamixer detects them as a sound card. F6 produces a list

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  (default)           │  │     │  │               >
│     │  │     │▒▒│     │▒▒│0  HDA Intel           │  │     │  │               >
│     │▒▒│     │▒▒│     │▒▒│1  USB  AUDIO          │  │     │  │               >
│     │▒▒│     │▒▒│     │▒▒│   enter device name...

where 0 looks like my sound card; that's all that appears normally. I select 1 and increase the volume from its zero default. No sound. I have tried rebooting, and rooted around in the alsa wiki:

http://alsa.opensrc.org/Category:Alsa-utils

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root[mimosa]# lspci -v | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

If anyone can give me any pointers, I'd be most grateful

[gapan]

Run gtkalsasetup and select your default alsa sound card.

[mimosa]

It already was the default, apparently (I must have managed to do this in alsamixer).

However, alsasetup seems to have a problem under 13.2:

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root[mimosa]# gtkalsasetup
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/gtkalsasetup", line 105, in on_button_ok_clicked
    msginfo.run()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'run'

[gapan]

Hmm... no idea why the lines that are causing this are in the code. Will take a look. But it should work anyway, regardless of that message.

Install the gnome-media package, run gstreamer-properties and select and test the soundcard there too.

[mimosa]

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root[mimosa]# slapt-get -i gnome-media 
Reading Package Lists...Done
gnome-media is up to date.
0 upgraded, 0 reinstalled, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove, 0 not upgraded.

Done
root[mimosa]# gstreamer-properties

(gst-plugin-scanner:14115): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstcelt.so': libcelt0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gst-plugin-scanner:14115): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstaasink.so': libslang.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'artsdsink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'pulsesink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'sunaudiosink'
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2270:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)
Aborted

[gapan]

Not as root!

[mimosa]

Right. That lets me select it, but:

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mimosa[~]$ gstreamer-properties
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'artsdsink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'pulsesink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'sunaudiosink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'glimagesink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'v4lmjpegsrc'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'qcamsrc'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'esdmon'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'sunaudiosrc'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'pulsesrc'

[gapan]

But what?

[mimosa]

Well, those look like errors to me (or maybe it's just some stuff that's irrelevant), but in any case, it didn't work.

[gapan]

It is clearly stated that they are Messages. All error messages are messages, but not all messages are error messages.