YT Video w/o audio HELP

[Ahau]

By "YT", I'm assuming you mean YouTube, which plays videos through flashplayer. It might be that flashplayer has saved some settings using the wrong sound card. Please try booting without saved changes (when the bootloader opens, highlight your entry and press the tab key, and use the arrow and backspace key to remove the cheatcode, "changes=xyz/whatever"), and see if that helps. If so, there's probably some config file we can delete from your saved changes so that it will work again when you boot back in with your saved changes. HTH.

[willard]

By "YT", I'm assuming you mean YouTube, which plays videos through flashplayer.
YES

It might be that flashplayer has saved some settings using the wrong sound card. Please try booting without saved changes (when the bootloader opens, highlight your entry and press the tab key, and use the arrow and backspace key to remove the cheatcode, "changes=xyz/whatever"), and see if that helps.
'ALWAYS FRESH' ON XFCE OMITS THAT CHEATCODE


If so, there's probably some config file we can delete from your saved changes so that it will work again when you boot back in with your saved changes. HTH.

Ahau,
Can't this be reproduced on another machine? My WIFI needs the 'DAT' file on the USB stick.
What's Plan B? Another MAJOR audio fix needed, before next release.
Regards,
willard

[fanthom]

@willard

blacklist 'snd_usb_audio' driver then load it through /etc/rc.d/rc.local (only if you need working MP3Streamer)

this way ATI IXP AC97 will be always set as 'card0' by udev.

Cheers

[willard]

@willard

blacklist 'snd_usb_audio' driver then load it through /etc/rc.d/rc.local (only if you need working MP3Streamer)

this way ATI IXP AC97 will be always set as 'card0' by udev.

Cheers

Dear fanthom:

Since leaping into the Linux World earlier in 2012, getting all the ducks to line up on the blacklist has been the key!

The only blacklist directory I'm familiar with on Porteus is for Broadcom WIFI. Please point me to the 'snd_usb_audio' blacklist directory/file? The MP3Streamer has NO capture ability and doubt it has a functional Linux driver. Therefore, it shoud have been blacklisted from the start.

willard

[fanthom]

@willard

everything from /etc/modprobe.d is being parsed by udev regardless of it's name.
please run:

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echo "blacklist snd-usb-audio" > /etc/modprobe.d/good-bear-for-fanthom.conf

and will be ok.

[willard]

@willard

everything from /etc/modprobe.d is being parsed by udev regardless of it's name.
please run:

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echo "blacklist snd-usb-audio" > /etc/modprobe.d/good-bear-for-fanthom.conf

and will be ok.

Flash Player still reacts the same, NO sound!
Perhaps Flash needs an Upgrade? MP3Streamer is now blacklisted, by using your code, since it is absent from alsamixer.

I see no indication MP3Streamer is compatible w/Linux.

Thanks for all the help.
willard

[fanthom]

@willard

flashplayer uses 'PCM' (software mixer if i'm not mistaken) so please run alsamixer and make sure it's not muted.

[willard]

@willard

flashplayer uses 'PCM' (software mixer if i'm not mistaken) so please run alsamixer and make sure it's not muted.

Dear fanthom,
YouTube has been messing with their code the last couple days, which might have some impact. I always have alsamixer armed and ready before surfing YouTube and since Porteus works w/MPlayer, the root cause must be somewhere else? Alsamixer appears void of a 'balance' control.
willard

Posted after 8 hours 20 minutes 15 seconds:

@willard

everything from /etc/modprobe.d is being parsed by udev regardless of it's name.
please run:

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echo "blacklist snd-usb-audio" > /etc/modprobe.d/good-bear-for-fanthom.conf

and will be ok.

Dear fanthom:

Perhaps the root cause lies in Porteus' equivalent to the Slackware 'libflahplayer.so' lib? I'm stumpt!
willard

[fanthom]

@willard

does your CPU support sse2 instructions? maybe downgrading of flashplayer could help you?
please have a look on this thread:
link

[willard]

@willard

does your CPU support sse2 instructions? maybe downgrading of flashplayer could help you?
please have a look on this thread:
link

Dear fanthom:
Here is the Turion64 SPEC, for your reference.

I'm familiar w/SSE but not SSE2 Instructions, which the hp dv8000 might not support . . Please confirm?
willard

Posted after 6 hours 32 minutes 22 seconds:

@willard

does your CPU support sse2 instructions?

Dear fanthom:
Yes, you can see, AMD Turion 64 can use the SSE2 instruction set. My gut feeling points to 'alsamixer'. I would suggest bundleing tried & true alternatives to 'alsamixer', in the future. Good things come in SMALL packages, but there is always that ten percent!
willard
PS. I have completed my XFCE 1.2 time slice and must fly~

[Ahau]

Pretty much every "Alternative" to alsamixer that you are thinking of is built on top of alsa, utilizing alsa tools as a back end...unless you mean OSS or perhaps pulseaudio. But I do believe pulseaudio still requires working alsa, wrapping around it.

If you have an sse2 CPU, there was a bug with flashplayer which likely affects you -- it has been resolved on other systems by downgrading flashplayer, as shown in the link fanthom pointed to. Please try using that version of flashplayer and let us know if sound is still missing.

[willard]

Pretty much every "Alternative" to alsamixer that you are thinking of is built on top of alsa, utilizing alsa tools as a back end...unless you mean OSS or perhaps pulseaudio. But I do believe pulseaudio still requires working alsa, wrapping around it.

If you have an sse2 CPU, there was a bug with flashplayer which likely affects you -- it has been resolved on other systems by downgrading flashplayer, as shown in the link fanthom pointed to. Please try using that version of flashplayer and let us know if sound is still missing.

Dear Ahau:
Hindsight is 20/20! Everything functions ok w/iceweasel bundled w/knoppix 7.03. If YouTube needs flashplayer, I see no sign of it as an iceweasel plugin. Can I assumb it doesn't need it? If it does, can its flashplayer version be located/verified? 'GNOME-AlsaMixer' is what I got to function w/knoppix.
willard

Posted after 5 hours 56 minutes 32 seconds:

Pretty much every "Alternative" to alsamixer that you are thinking of is built on top of alsa, utilizing alsa tools as a back end...unless you mean OSS or perhaps pulseaudio. But I do believe pulseaudio still requires working alsa, wrapping around it.

If you have an sse2 CPU, there was a bug with flashplayer which likely affects you -- it has been resolved on other systems by downgrading flashplayer, as shown in the link fanthom pointed to. Please try using that version of flashplayer and let us know if sound is still missing.

Dear Ahau:
In the past, some like gnome-alsamixer, others favor pulseaudio. I'm quite sure Porteus needs these alternatives. Downgrading flashplayer did NOT restore YouTube audio on the hp dv8000 hardware. Very difficult problem!
willard

[brokenman]

I'm using hp dv6000 with no problems.
Please boot to Trinity and try the following (since we are clutching at straws now).

From console start your browser as root and check sound in YT
Go to system control panel /sound system and play with 'full duplex'

Also try this firefox:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=1519

[willard]

I'm using hp dv6000 with no problems.
Please boot to Trinity and try the following (since we are clutching at straws now).

From console start your browser as root and check sound in YT
Go to system control panel /sound system and play with 'full duplex'

Also try this firefox:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=1519

Dear brokenman:
same as usually. . .why not incorporate gnome-alsamixer ??
willard
PS. at-least sound system 'test sound' did function ok.

Posted after 1 day 3 hours 6 minutes 53 seconds:
Hi,
Went to Debian, from PPM and found gnome-alsamixer, which trapped this error:

• Password:
  root@porteus:/home/guest# gnome-alsamixer
  gnome-alsamixer: error while loading shared libraries: libgnomeui-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  root@porteus:/home/guest#

Using XFCE/PPM, can 'libgnomeui-2.so.0' be searched and indexed? if so, how?
willard

[brokenman]

gnome-alsa is going to drag in a lot of deps. libgnomeui-2.so.0 will most certainly not be the last requirement.

In any case grab it from here and convert it from console using: rpm2xzm package.rpm
http://pkgs.org/fedora-17/fedora-i386/l ... /download/