SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

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SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

23 September 2021, 19:54:43

I have sound but not all sound coming out of correct speakers! I notice that what was working in Devuan 3.0 doesn't work in Devuan 3.1.1 correctly but more correctly in Artix but still some minor niggles. My preferred Audio is ALSA over Pulse Audio - the least possible there is of Lennart's stuff touching my system the better! When I run the ''Speaker Test' - Front left is coming from the centre, Centre is Centre, Front right is coming through the sub-woofer. This latter element has occurred on other distros I have been playing with recently. I have usded blacklist.conf to disable the snd_hda_intel in respect of the graphics card/s HDMI ports.

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

Reply #1 – 25 September 2021, 13:48:17

Update - tried to turn autospawn of pulseaudio off which results in no sound at all. Such a shame that KDE appears to be going down the Gnome route of Pulse Audio dependency! That aside, I have temporarily resolved left and centre speaker issue by connecing them to the wrong output connections on the subwoofer of the Logitech surround system. However the right speaker comes out through the sub-woofer and cannot change that outoput port as it is similar to the old joystick connection on a sound card and also conains the connection for on/off and volume. D'OH!

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

Reply #2 – 26 September 2021, 11:04:04

There's a ton of examples of configuring audio channels at the fine Arch wiki.

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Reply #3 – 26 September 2021, 18:03:30

Quote from: nous – on 26 September 2021, 11:04:04

There's a ton of examples of configuring audio channels at the fine Arch wiki.

Thanks I will take a look.

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

Reply #4 – 26 September 2021, 18:05:54

Why o why are we stuck with freakin' pulse audio? I am longing for a system that only has ALSA present - I know I am asking for the impossible, but it would be nice!

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

Reply #5 – 26 September 2021, 20:12:56

Quote from: swarfendor437 – on 26 September 2021, 18:05:54

Why o why are we stuck with freakin' pulse audio? I am longing for a system that only has ALSA present - I know I am asking for the impossible, but it would be nice!

Than search for ALSA in Archwiki. They have plenty of information.

Note form me: You might wish to install pipewire-dummy or pulseaudio-dummy from AUR to satisfy dependencies for packages which wish to pull that thing into your machine.

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

Reply #6 – 27 September 2021, 06:12:01

Quote from: swarfendor437 – on 26 September 2021, 18:05:54

Why o why are we stuck with freakin' pulse audio? I am longing for a system that only has ALSA present - I know I am asking for the impossible, but it would be nice!

I removed the pulseaudio packages except one: libpulse.

I installed qastools which offers a nice and very practical mixer :
sudo pacman -Sy qastools

Then I listed my audio cards:
cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfce60000 irq 96
1 [Generic ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
HD-Audio Generic at 0xfc900000 irq 98

I created/modified /etc/asound.conf

And added this to select card1:
defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.ctl.card 1

Restart system

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

Reply #7 – 27 September 2021, 22:41:06

Quote from: tintin – on 27 September 2021, 06:12:01

I removed the pulseaudio packages except one: libpulse.

I installed qastools which offers a nice and very practical mixer :
sudo pacman -Sy qastools

Then I listed my audio cards:
cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfce60000 irq 96
1 [Generic ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
HD-Audio Generic at 0xfc900000 irq 98

I created/modified /etc/asound.conf

And added this to select card1:
defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.ctl.card 1

Restart system

Thanks, one of the first things I did in Devuan after blacklisting snd_hda_intel was to install all Qas'* packages.

UPdate - just using same command "error: target not found: qastools"

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

Reply #8 – 28 September 2021, 03:05:36

Quote from: swarfendor437 – on 27 September 2021, 22:41:06

Thanks, one of the first things I did in Devuan after blacklisting snd_hda_intel was to install all Qas'* packages.

Yes, qastools are pretty and practical

Quote from: swarfendor437

UPdate - just using same command "error: target not found: qastools"

$ pacman -Ss qastools
community/qastools 0.23.0-1 (pro-audio) [installé]
A collection of desktop applications for the Linux sound system ALSA.

Personally I added these two repositories at the end of /etc/pacman.conf
(But I wouldn't be surprised if you knew that already)

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#
# ARCHLINUX
#

[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

Reply #9 – 03 October 2021, 20:10:17

Quote from: tintin – on 28 September 2021, 03:05:36

Yes, qastools are pretty and practical
$ pacman -Ss qastools
community/qastools 0.23.0-1 (pro-audio) [installé]
A collection of desktop applications for the Linux sound system ALSA.

Personally I added these two repositories at the end of /etc/pacman.conf
(But I wouldn't be surprised if you knew that already)

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#
# ARCHLINUX
#

[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

When I have done this and run update commands I get this:

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error: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch could not be read: No such file or directory
error parsing '/etc/pacman.conf'

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

Reply #10 – 03 October 2021, 20:52:46

Do you have package "archlinux-mirrorlist" installed?

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

Reply #11 – 05 October 2021, 06:39:48

Quote from: swarfendor437 – on 03 October 2021, 20:10:17

When I have done this and run update commands I get this:

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error: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch could not be read: No such file or directory
error parsing '/etc/pacman.conf'

Indeed, I should have put this link to you:
https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories#Arch_repositories

(Thanks to SGOrava)

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

Reply #12 – 05 October 2021, 22:22:10

Thanks all but even after making the changes I am still getting:

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artixkde:[swarfendor437]:~$ sudo pacman -Ss qastools
[sudo] password for swarfendor437: 
error: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch could not be read: No such file or directory

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

Reply #13 – 06 October 2021, 05:54:17

Quote from: swarfendor437 – on 05 October 2021, 22:22:10

Thanks all but even after making the changes I am still getting:

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artixkde:[swarfendor437]:~$ sudo pacman -Ss qastools
[sudo] password for swarfendor437: 
error: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch could not be read: No such file or directory

Hello,
See if you have an /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew file

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ls /etc/pacman.d/

If yes :

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sudo cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

Then you edit this file and you comment all the lines (# at the beginning of the line) except those concerning your country.

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sudo nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

If you don't have an /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew file then you can generate a mirrorlist for your country on:
https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/

But be careful: copy this generated mirrorlist to /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

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sudo touch /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

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sudo nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

And you uncomment (Remove the # at the beginning of the line) the https lines of the servers that interests you.

Please can you give me the result of :

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cat /etc/pacman.conf

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx

Reply #14 – 15 October 2021, 22:31:09

Hi this is how far I can get:

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artixkde:[swarfendor437]:~$ ls /etc/pacman.d/
gnupg  mirrorlist
artixkde:[swarfendor437]:~$ sudo cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch
[sudo] password for swarfendor437: 
cp: cannot stat '/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew': No such file or directory
artixkde:[swarfendor437]:~$

It's been an interesting ride but think I am going to stick wtih Devuan. My grey cells are fading fast. Thanks to all who contributed, including the Developers - not many forums get Devs responding to noobs. Thanks again all - it's been a wild ride!