No sound on FC2 to FC3T3 update... artsd going nuts

[Steve Watford]

Did you ever resolve this with your laptop?  I am getting exactly the same 
errors and experience with a new laptop I just purchased.  I never had FC2 on 
this laptop before, it was a clean install of FC3.  Didn't throw any errors 
during the install, but I get the same cpu overload with artsd going nuts 
until it shuts itself down.

output from /sbin/lspci:
 00:1f:.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82891DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

Mine is basically a KDE install. Pretty generic but KDE not Gnome.

Any help would be appreciated.

Steve


On Wednesday 27 October 2004 11:55 am, Kim Lux (Mr.) wrote:
> Sound doesn't work on my laptop with FC3T3. It did with FC2.
>
>  Here is the vital info:
>
>  On login I get this message:
>
>  Sound server informational message:
>  Error while initializing the sound driver:
>  device: default can't be opened for playback (Device or resource busy)
>  The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
>
>
>  Sometimes after login I get this message:
>
>  Sound server fatal error:
>  cpu overload, aborting
>
>
>  In hwbrowser I find:
>
>  Sound cards: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller
>  Manufacturer: Unknown
>  Driver: snd-intel8x0
>
>
>  If I run system-config-sound:
>
>  The following audio device was detected:
>  <blurb here, same as hwbrowser>
>  When I press "Play Test Sound" the application hangs.
>
>  If I run tops, I find that artsd hogs the cpu cycles like crazy.
>
>  In dmesg everything looks normal as far as errors go. There doesn't
> appear to be a driver loaded for sound. Here is the only stuff I see
> that might be related to sound:
>
>  ICH5: chipset revision 2
>  ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>
>  codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c
>  codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c
>  codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c
>  codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2
>  codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2
>  codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x18
>  codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x18
>
>  All other logs are clean.
>
>  In /etc, I have a asound.state and an alsa dir.
>
>  asound.state looks normal and only contains stuff about mixer.
>
>  asound.conf is not present.
>  in /etc/alsa, I have alsa.conf. There is nothing special in it.
>
>  /sbin/lsmod
>  Module Size Used by
>  parport_pc 24705 1
>  lp 11565 0
>  parport 41736 2 parport_pc,lp
>  autofs4 24005 0
>  i2c_dev 10433 0
>  i2c_core 22081 1 i2c_dev
>  ds 16965 2
>  sunrpc 160421 1
>  ipt_REJECT 6465 1
>  ipt_state 1857 1
>  ip_conntrack 40693 1 ipt_state
>  iptable_filter 2753 1
>  ip_tables 16193 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
>  microcode 6497 0
>  dm_mod 54741 0
>  button 6481 0
>  battery 8517 0
>  ac 4805 0
>  md5 4033 1
>  ipv6 232577 10
>  joydev 8705 0
>  ohci1394 35033 0
>  ieee1394 302869 1 ohci1394
>  yenta_socket 18753 0
>  pcmcia_core 59913 2 ds,yenta_socket
>  uhci_hcd 31449 0
>  ehci_hcd 31557 0
>  hw_random 5589 0
>  snd_intel8x0m 18185 0
>  snd_intel8x0 34829 3
>  snd_ac97_codec 64401 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
>  snd_pcm_oss 47609 0
>  snd_mixer_oss 17217 1 snd_pcm_oss
>  snd_pcm 97993 5 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
>  snd_timer 29765 1 snd_pcm
>  snd_page_alloc 9673 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
>  gameport 4801 1 snd_intel8x0
>  snd_mpu401_uart 8769 1 snd_intel8x0
>  snd_rawmidi 26725 1 snd_mpu401_uart
>  snd_seq_device 8137 1 snd_rawmidi
>  snd 54053 15 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_
> oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uar
> t,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
>  soundcore 9889 1 snd
>  ndiswrapper 114744 0
>  8139too 26305 0
>  mii 4673 1 8139too
>  ext3 116809 2
>  jbd 74969 1 ext3
>
>
>  I figured out how to turn off aRts: Start->Control Center -> Sound and
> Multi.->Sound System-> General. Turn off the "Enable the Sound System"
> option.
>
>  I also tried changing the audio device on the Hardware tab to alsa,
> with no effect.
>
>
> I've update to kernel 2.6.9-1.643 and I've updated alsa to 1.0.6-3.
>
>
> Any advice ?  How do I troubleshoot this ?
>
>
> --
> Kim Lux (Mr.) <lux at diesel-research.com>