No sound whatsoever. Tried everything I was told. Help!

[emo_samurai]

I turned off the integrated sound chip, I used Alsaconf to reconfigure the sound card, and I turned Pulseaudio on and off like 5 times.

My screen output from running the "classic" troubleshooting commands is

[zarus@localhost ~]$ lspcidrake -v | fgrep -i AUDIO
snd_emu10k1x    : Creative Labs|[SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1102 device:0006 subv:1102 subd:1003)
[zarus@localhost ~]$ grep sound-slot /etc/modprobe.conf
alias sound-slot-0 snd_emu10k1x
[zarus@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_usb_audio          64903  0
snd_hwdep               4802  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_usb_lib            13866  1 snd_usb_audio
af_packet              14122  2
ipv6                  222857  16
snd_emu10k1x           11192  2
snd_rawmidi            16323  2 snd_usb_lib,snd_emu10k1x
snd_ac97_codec         89701  1 snd_emu10k1x
snd_seq_dummy           1266  0
snd_seq_oss            22774  0
snd_seq_midi_event      5464  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                40753  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          5214  4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            29040  0
snd_pcm                58856  4 snd_usb_audio,snd_emu10k1x,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              15794  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          11096  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    46351  17 snd_usb_audio,snd_hwdep,snd_usb_lib,snd_emu10k1x,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
e100                   24772  0
soundcore               5680  1 snd
ac97_bus                 946  1 snd_ac97_codec
mii                     3885  1 e100
radeon                512825  2
dcdbas                  4970  0
emu10k1_gp              1546  0
gameport                8272  2 emu10k1_gp
snd_page_alloc          6506  2 snd_emu10k1x,snd_pcm
rng_core                3002  0
shpchp                 23804  0
sr_mod                 11640  0
cdrom                  28716  1 sr_mod
sg                     21491  0
iTCO_wdt                8782  0
i2c_i801                6754  0
serio_raw               3595  0
iTCO_vendor_support     2302  1 iTCO_wdt
pci_hotplug            22676  1 shpchp
ttm                    43956  1 radeon
drm_kms_helper         23902  1 radeon
drm                   144709  5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit            4134  1 radeon
i2c_core               18110  5 radeon,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
binfmt_misc             5590  1
ohci1394               22696  0
sbp2                   16049  0
raw1394                16911  0
ieee1394               69727  3 ohci1394,sbp2,raw1394
fuse                   49640  0
dm_mod                 55938  0
wacom                  21753  0
ppdev                   4676  0
joydev                  7351  0
floppy                 44968  0
evdev                   6341  9
parport_pc             26665  0
parport                28094  2 ppdev,parport_pc
rtc_cmos                6929  0
thermal                10903  0
processor              29811  0
button                  4713  0
ata_generic             2315  0
ide_pci_generic         2306  0
pata_acpi               2303  0
piix                    4019  0
ide_gd_mod             19349  0
ide_core               85822  3 ide_pci_generic,piix,ide_gd_mod
ahci                   29234  0
ata_piix               18324  3
libata                145448  4 ata_generic,pata_acpi,ahci,ata_piix
sd_mod                 27633  4
scsi_mod              132396  5 sr_mod,sg,sbp2,libata,sd_mod
crc_t10dif              1195  1 sd_mod
ext4                  266257  2
jbd2                   64781  1 ext4
crc16                   1303  1 ext4
uhci_hcd               16806  0
ohci_hcd               17668  0
ehci_hcd               27927  0
usbhid                 30458  0
hid                    56014  1 usbhid
usbcore               124336  8 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,wacom,uhci_hcd,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,usbhid
[zarus@localhost ~]$ /sbin/chkconfig --list sound
sound           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
[zarus@localhost ~]$ /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa
alsa            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
[zarus@localhost ~]$ /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp

The last line is supposed to check for which programs use the sound card, apparently nothing uses it. This is very odd.

[uncleV]

and I turned Pulseaudio on and off like 5 times.

Dumb question may be but did you installed it?

Oh and welcome, emo_samurai!

[emo_samurai]

Nothing has changed. Can anyone help?

[menotu]

Nothing has changed. Can anyone help?

I think uncleV was asking if you'd installed Pulseaudio using Synaptic.

Oh, and a big welcome to the forum.

[Ray2047]

Last time I installed sound was turned off in the mixer.

[emo_samurai]

Mixer is fine, pulse was installed then uninstalled then installed then ....

[menotu]

What happens if you turn the integrated sound chip back on?

[Was_Just19]

This is what I have installed

Code:

$ lspcidrake -v | fgrep -i AUDIO
snd_emu10k1     : Creative Labs|SB Live! EMU10k1 [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1102 device:0002 subv:1102 subd:8040) (rev: 08)

The difference between yours and mine seems to be    snd_emu10k1x

I don't know enough about those cards to know what this diff implies.

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I presume you have shut down your audio devices and run  alsaconf ........  did you try selecting a different driver for the card?  Usually there is an alternate driver offered.

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Have you examined the PA Vol Cntrl when playing a sound file?
Have you installed all the needed packages to have Pulse working correctly? ......  the plugins for the various apps for instance?

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Is your device appearing in the PAV Cntrl  Configuration list?  Do you have the option set correctly there? ......  for instance is it outputting to the correct connections on the card?  Maybe you are sending the sound source to the digital output while connecting speakers to the stereo output?

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There are lots of other things to check also, but the first would be Kmix ........  launch the mixer, go to  settings and Configure Channels .........  add most or all of them so you can see them all.

Now start playing with the sliders while playing a sound source .....

regards.

[Dragynn]

um..not for nothing...but which version of PCLOS are ya using?

Thread here from Tex about Pulseaudio, good info there: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,83740.0.