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Bug #131711
Comment #41

Comment 41 for bug 131711

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Sabaki (crbell) wrote on 2007-12-27:

#41

I'm having this problem also on Ubuntu64 'gutsy'. I have PulseAudio-0.9.6-1ubuntu-2 installed and configured. I've had one audio problem after another with Ubuntu.

I installed PulseAudio originally to solve a problem I was having getting flash audio to work in firefox, and PulseAudio solved that problem and has been working fairly smoothly except I can't seem to record audio.

In Sound Preferences > Devices I have

Sound Events
Sound Playback | PulseAudio Sound Server | Test *** works OK

Music and Movies
Sound Playback | PulseAudio Sound Server | Test *** works OK

Audio Conferencing
Sound Playback | PulseAudio Sound Server | Test *** works OK
Sound Capture | PulseAudio Sound Server | Test *** Pops up error message:

"Failed to construct test pipeline for 'gconfaudiosrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=chat'"

And I can't seem to record anything. Microphone, etc. is un-muted.

I'm running the rt kernel 2.6.22-14-rt

lspci -v
02:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Unknown device 4942:4c4c
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
        I/O ports at df00 [size=64]

both ~/.asoundrc and /etc/asound.conf have:

----------------------
# Part I directly from ALSA Dmix Wiki

pcm.crbell { # crbell is my name, you can use your name, just make sure you use it below too
    type dmix
    ipc_key 1024
    slave {
        pcm "hw:0,0"
        period_time 0
        period_size 1024
        buffer_size 8192
       #format "S32_LE"
       #periods 128
        rate 44100
    }
}

pcm.dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "crbell"
}

# This following device can fool some applications into using pulseaudio
pcm.dsp1 {
type plug
slave.pcm "pulse"
}

ctl.mixer0 {
type hw
card 0
}

# Part II directly from Pulseaudio Wiki

pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}

ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}

pcm.!default {
type pulse
}

ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
-----------------------------------

Also, although with KMid I can play MIDI out through my attached external yamaha synth, I can't seem get MIDI in from it.

In /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base I see:

------------------------------------
# autoloader aliases
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-0
install sound-slot-1 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-1
install sound-slot-2 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-2
install sound-slot-3 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-3
install sound-slot-4 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-4
install sound-slot-5 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-5
install sound-slot-6 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-6
install sound-slot-7 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-7

# Cause optional modules to be loaded above generic modules
install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-ioctl32 ; : ; }
install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-pcm-oss ; : ; }
install snd-mixer /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-mixer && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-mixer-oss ; : ; }
install snd-seq /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-seq && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq-midi ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq-oss ; : ; }
install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
# Cause optional modules to be loaded above sound card driver modules
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe -Qb snd-emu10k1-synth ; }
install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe -Qb snd-seq ; }

# Load saa7134-alsa instead of saa7134 (which gets dragged in by it anyway)
install saa7134 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install saa7134 $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe -Qb saa7134-alsa ; : ; }

# Load snd-seq for devices that don't have hardware midi;
# Ubuntu #26283, #43682, #56005; works around Ubuntu #34831 for
# non-Creative Labs PCI hardware
install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe -Qb snd-seq ; }
# Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0
options snd-bt87x index=-2
options cx88-alsa index=-2
options saa7134-alsa index=-2
options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
options snd-intel8x0m index=-2
options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
options snd-usb-audio index=-2
options snd-usb-usx2y index=-2
options snd-usb-caiaq index=-2
# Ubuntu #62691, enable MPU for snd-cmipci
options snd-cmipci mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388
-----------------------------

Also, there are several audio apps that I really need for audio production that require JACK, and unfortunately, the Ubuntu pulseaudio packagers chose to remove the pulseaudio-module-jack modules!
If anyone has built the pulseaudio-module-jack package for JACK modules support for the Gutsy64 version of PulseAudio, I'd sure appreciate info on where I might find them.

So, I'm unable to record audio or input MIDI or run JACK (without killing PulseAudio and reconfiguring everything).

Any help appreciated.

I'm having this problem also on Ubuntu64 'gutsy'. I have PulseAudio-0.9.6-1ubuntu-2 installed and configured. I've had one audio problem after another with Ubuntu.

In Sound Preferences > Devices I have

Sound Events
  Sound Playback | PulseAudio Sound Server |  Test  *** works OK

Music and Movies
  Sound Playback | PulseAudio Sound Server |  Test  *** works OK

Audio Conferencing
  Sound Playback | PulseAudio Sound Server |  Test  *** works OK
  Sound Capture  | PulseAudio Sound Server |  Test  *** Pops up error message:

"Failed to construct test pipeline for 'gconfaudiosrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=chat'"

And I can't seem to record anything. Microphone, etc. is un-muted.

I'm running the rt kernel  2.6.22-14-rt

both ~/.asoundrc  and /etc/asound.conf have:

----------------------
# Part I directly from ALSA Dmix Wiki

pcm.crbell { # crbell is my name, you can use your name, just make sure you use it below too
    type dmix
    ipc_key 1024
    slave {
        pcm "hw:0,0"     
        period_time 0
        period_size 1024
        buffer_size 8192
       #format "S32_LE"
       #periods 128
        rate 44100
    }
}

pcm.dsp0 {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "crbell"
}

# This following device can fool some applications into using pulseaudio
pcm.dsp1 {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "pulse"
}

ctl.mixer0 {
    type hw
    card 0
}

# Part II directly from Pulseaudio Wiki

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}

ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}

pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}

ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}
-----------------------------------

Also, although with KMid I can play MIDI out through my attached external yamaha synth, I can't seem get MIDI in from it.

In /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base  I see:

# Load saa7134-alsa instead of saa7134 (which gets dragged in by it anyway)
install saa7134 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install saa7134 $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe -Qb saa7134-alsa ; : ; }

# Load snd-seq for devices that don't have hardware midi;
#   Ubuntu #26283, #43682, #56005; works around Ubuntu #34831 for
#   non-Creative Labs PCI hardware
install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe -Qb snd-seq ; }
# Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0
options snd-bt87x index=-2
options cx88-alsa index=-2
options saa7134-alsa index=-2
options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
options snd-intel8x0m index=-2
options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
options snd-usb-audio index=-2
options snd-usb-usx2y index=-2
options snd-usb-caiaq index=-2
# Ubuntu #62691, enable MPU for snd-cmipci
options snd-cmipci mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388
-----------------------------

So, I'm unable to record audio or input MIDI or run JACK (without killing PulseAudio and reconfiguring everything).

Any help appreciated.