Clementine Cannot Open Audio Playback Device?[SOLVED]

[rgradle]

I have an ASUS F2A85-V Pro motherboard which has on-board sound and on-board HDMI.  I am running LXDE fully updated.  The sound will not work.  I believe the reason is because ALSA has set the HDMI output as the default.  I cannot find a way to change that.

I have run alsaconf as root.  That process finishes OK.  When I then run alsamixer, the reference is to card ¨HD-Audio Generic¨ and chip ¨ATI R6xx HDMI¨ and alsamixer says ¨This sound device does not have any controls.¨

PCC->Hardware->Soundcard shows the Hudson Azalia controller and one device (device 9902).

Contents of relevant files:
/proc/asound/cards
0 [Generic        ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
                     HD-Audio Generic at 0xfeb44000 irq 61
1 [Generic_1      ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
                     HD-Audio Generic at 0xfeb40000 irq 16

/proc/asound/pcm
00-03: HDMI 0 : HDMI 0 : playback 1
00-07: HDMI 1 : HDMI 1 : playback 1
00-08: HDMI 2 : HDMI 2 : playback 1
00-09: HDMI 3 : HDMI 3 : playback 1
01-00: ALC892 Analog : ALC892 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
01-01: ALC892 Digital : ALC892 Digital : playback 1
01-02: ALC892 Analog : ALC892 Analog : capture 1

ALSA is using the snd_hda_intel driver.  According to the mb literature, the chipset is HDA compliant. I am not using PulseAudio.

Because only one audio device is identified in PCC, I do not understand how to differentiate between the Analog and HDMI outputs to set the default.

Any direction you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

[Yankee]

See if /etc/asound.state makes any sense to you.
Should show if HDMI is active.

[Just17]

This *might* be useful .....  worth a try at least .....

create a hidden file   ~/.asoundrc

make the contents of the file

Code: [Select]

pcm.!default {
type hw
card 1
}

ctl.!default {
type hw
card 1
}


aplay -l

should give you the card number you wish to use as default.

Example of my cards

$ aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


card 1: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 2: Z205 [ Logitech Z205], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

As can be seen, card 0 is the analogue sound, card 1 is the HDMI and card 2 is a USB connected set of speakers.

In my case I would set card 0 as the default.

[rgradle]

Thank you for the suggestions.

See if /etc/asound.state makes any sense to you.
Should show if HDMI is active.

The asound.state file has 5 controls that refer to IEC958.  Control.30 has the name ¨IEC958 playback default¨ and has a value of ¨04¨ followed by 350 zeroes.  Controls 28 and 29 similarly have values that are followed by 348 and 350 zeroes, respectively.  Controls 31 and 32 have values of ¨false¨.

This *might* be useful .....  worth a try at least .....
create a hidden file   ~/.asoundrc
make the contents of the file

Code: [Select]

pcm.!default {
type hw
card 1
}

ctl.!default {
type hw
card 1
}
aplay -l

should give you the card number you wish to use as default.

I created the file, then rebooted. 

aplay -L produced the following results:

default:CARD=Generic_1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Generic_1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    Default Audio Device

Still, no sound.  Clementine reported ¨Could Not Open Audio Device For Playback¨

Searched on Forum and found reference to similar issue with Clementine that was resolved by choosing a different Gstreamer audio engine.  Changed to ¨SDL audio sink¨ and the sound now works.

Deleted the .asoundrc file, rebooted.  Clementine still works.

Thanks again for the help.  I will mark this solved.

[Just17]

You might change the heading in the first post to reflect the actual problem ........  that Clementine was not behaving properly and not that there was an Alsa problem  

[rgradle]

OK. Done.

Thanks again!