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Re: Cannot find multimedia device

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On Friday, March 16th, 2012, at 14:33:32h -0400, Haines Brown explained:

> I have Creative Labs X-Fi on the machine of concern

Okay that is what we need to know.

dmesg confirms this

> 05:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB X-Fi

> snd_emu10k1_synth       4024  0
> snd_emux_synth         21906  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
> snd_seq_virmidi         2955  1 snd_emux_synth
> snd_seq_midi_emul       3554  1 snd_emux_synth
> snd_emu10k1           105152  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
...
> snd_util_mem            1548  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
> snd_hda_codec_realtek   163378  1
> snd_hda_intel          16907  0
> snd_hda_codec          46002  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
> snd_hwdep               4054  3 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_hda_codec
...

Hmmmmm.   snd_hda_intel????

Oh look you have TWO audio devices in this machine

> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)

That could complicate matters especially when running stuff through Wine.
I do not know anything really about sound devices through Wine, but I doubt
whether an application run through Wine will go through ALSA library or
which device it will try to access if there is more than one.

So in order to overcome that problem you will need to disable the onboard
audio whilst trying to use your application with Wine to use the SB Xfi card.

Now the thing I just DO NOT understand is that you have lots of
snd_emu10k1 module names appearing in the output of lsmod

> snd_pcm                47386  6 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_ctxfi
> snd_seq                35463  5 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_timer              12270  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm,snd_seq
> snd_seq_device          3673  5 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq


emu10k1 is the module for Sound Blaster Live cards.

For Audigy cards, the module is emu10k2 and for XFi cards it is emu20k1 and emu20k2

See the table at  <http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Creative_Labs>

So either you have run the lsmod command on the wrong machine, or you
are loading the wrong modules via possibly modprobe.conf.d ALSA conf
file on your machine which would explain why the mixer settings are
completely messed up and it is any wonder that you get any sound at all
from the SB XFi card.

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Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-15 12:31 -0400
  Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-15 16:52 +0000
    Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-16 14:33 -0400
      Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-16 20:26 +0000
        Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-17 06:54 -0400
          Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-17 12:48 +0000
            Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-17 12:57 +0000
            Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-17 14:01 -0400
              Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-17 20:11 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-18 15:38 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-18 20:50 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-19 16:30 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-19 22:21 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-20 10:34 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-20 15:05 +0000
              Re: Cannot find multimedia device Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> - 2012-03-17 21:15 +0100
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-17 20:58 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-30 08:31 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-30 13:35 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-30 18:35 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-31 09:18 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-31 08:32 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-31 16:46 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-31 18:08 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-04-01 10:30 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-04-01 13:06 +0000

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