On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Alice Wonder wrote:
On 03/28/2017 05:53 PM, ken wrote:
The www has failed me with this, so I'm trying you guys. Sound worked great out of the box when I installed 7.2... Yay! I could watch all kinds of videos, like on facebook and youtube. And I could listen to most podcasts too. But then something happened. It was either a kernel upgrade or that I installed vlc (for watching videos on DVD) and the whole stack of codecs for it... I don't know exactly when, but at some point I no longer had sound with youtube and other web videos. The videos played fine, just no sound. Note that using vlc, both video and the audio with it play just fine. I need to select the audio driver (from a list in a vlc menu), however, else the sound won't work in vlc either.
If I go into the Applications menu, then System Tools -> Settings -> Sound, under "Choose a device for sound output:" there are no devices listed. There used to be.
If I run "aplayer file.wav", nothing plays (no sound at all) and I get the error "main:786: audio open error: No such file or directory". If, on the other hand, I run "aplay file.wav -D plughw:0" (i.e., specify the/a device), I do get sound, the file does play.
I ran alsa-info.sh and it posted tons of info from it on my setup at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=1dba91886be054df4816000768a0f5b109947a48. Yet it still doesn't tell me what's missing.
Anyone here have an idea...? or thoughts about where to look next?
tia, ken
I have similar issue with USB headphones. Worked fine in 7.2 but in 7.3 I frequently have to unplug and plug them back in before it finally is able to be selected from the menus as my output.
I notice that you have an HDA-Intel. I do as well. By any chance is the last kernel that worked reliably with sound is kernel-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64. I find that with kernels newer than kernel-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64 the sound card works, but the internal speaker is disabled, but I can plug in headphones and get sound that way. If I boot into kernel-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64 with no other modifications to my system, my sound works fine.
Barry