[xine-user] xine/gentoo/alsa no sound (FAQ doesn't help)

[Jeff W. <je...@cy...>]

Please help, I'm at my wits end.

I have a Fujitsu laptop with Gentoo Linux installed and everything
except Xine seems to work correctly. Xine appears to compile, install
and function just fine but it does not produce any sound. Neither
through the built-in speakers or through the headphone jack.

I've administered Linux machines since 1991 so I generally think
I know what I'm doing but maybe I missed something stupid?

Some hardware information:
laptop: Fujitsu P7010
I'm using the snd_intel8x0 kernel driver.

lspci reports this:
   00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
   00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
snd_intel8x0 is probably right because all other sound applications
seem to work just fine.

xine was working around a year ago on this laptop but I don't use
it often and I have reinstalled the entire OS and applications
since then. I don't know what is configured differently now.

   $ aplay -l
   **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
   card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel  82801DB-ICH4]
     Subdevices: 1/1
     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 - IEC958]
     Subdevices: 1/1
     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   card 1: Modem [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem], device 0: Intel ICH - Modem [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem - Modem]
     Subdevices: 1/1
     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

(IEC958 seems odd because I seem to only have analog jacks on
the laptop and I thought IEC958 is a digital jack standard.
Though, I figure it's just an integral part of this Intel chipset.)

I do not have an .asoundrc but  do have /etc/asound.state which
looks reasonable but is too long to include here unless somebody
asks for it.

I have a pretty straight forward modules alias for alsa:
   $ cat /etc/modules.d/alsa
   alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
   alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
   alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
   alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
   alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0


Amarok plays just fine through either the built in speakers
or through the headphones if I just plug them in. I am listening
to a Beatles "Let it be" ogg vorbis track as I write this.
Amarok is configured to use the "Xine engine" which is weird
because amraok produces sound just fine but xine-ui doesn't and
I would figure they both use the same "engine". gxine also
doesn't make a difference.

aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav also works just
fine as does:
aplay -D default /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav
aplay -D plughw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav

(-D hw:0,0) does not work and complains about
"aplay: set_params:905: Channels count non available"

Further, I can have amarok playing "Let it be" and I can
simultaneously issue the aplay command to test the Front_Right
wav file and I get the two sources mixed together and played
simultaneously and correctly.

Even sound in firefox-bn/flashplayer works.

Basically, I think sound works on the laptop just fine I just
can't get xine to make sound.

One strange oddity is that whenever I reposition the stream
by clicking on the slider I get a dialog that pops up and
says: "The stream 'dvd:/' uses and unsupported codec: Audio
Codec: AC3 (0x0) Start playback anyway ?". This error does
not occur at initial playback.

Here's what xine reports when run with a "Usual Suspects"
DVD:
   $ xine dvd://
   This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.5.
   (c) 2000-2007 The xine Team.
   libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
   libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/hda3 mounted on / for CSS authentication
   libdvdread: Could not open /dev/hda3 with libdvdcss.
   libdvdread: Can't open /dev/hda3 for reading
   libdvdread: Device /dev/hda3 inaccessible, CSS authentication not available.
   libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
   libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
   libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
   libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access

   libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
   libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

   libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x0000013d
   libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
   libdvdread: Found 1 VTS's
   libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
   X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
     Major opcode of failed request:  140 (XVideo)
     Minor opcode of failed request:  13 ()
     Serial number of failed request:  2654
     Current serial number in output stream:  2655

I'm a little worried about the XVideo failed opcode request but
it doesn't seem to prevent me from getting a video image. I just
have no sound to go with it.

Here's my xine config (just a basic default)
   $ more .xine/config | sed -e 's,#.*,,g' | grep -v "^$"
   .version:2
   audio.device.alsa_front_device:default
   engine.performance.memcpy_method:kernel

I have also tried changing the audio output to "alsa" with
default devices with no luck and I have also manually specified
plughw:0,0 for all the devices wth no luck.

alsamixer unmuted all channels and tried various settings for IEC958
and muting various sensible channels like Mic with no positive
results.

For the gentoo crowd (if such exists) my use flags are:
USE="-3dfx -3dnow -accessibility aac acpi aiglx alsa apache2 arts bzip2 cdparanoia cdr -clama
v crypt cups -doc dri dvd dvdr emacs flac foomaticdb gphoto2 gps gstreamer -gtk gtk2 imap inn
odb jack java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde lm_sensors maildir mmap mmx mozilla mp3 musicbrainz
mysql mysqli ncurses offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdf perl php ppds qt3suppo
rt samba sse sse2 ssl swat tetex truetype usb visualization vorbis wifi xcomposite xine xscre
ensaver"

Does anybody have a clue what I can do to fix this
and get sound?

Thanks,

- Jeff