No audio in OpenITG due to ALSA-related issue

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#1 
00:00.859: Initializing driver: ALSA
00:00.945: Couldn't open card "hw:0" to get ID: No such file or directory
00:00.946: ALSA: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version k3.11.10-17-desktop.
00:00.947: ALSA Driver: 1: Xonar DG [DG], device 0: Multichannel [Multichannel], 1/1 subdevices avail
00:00.947: ALSA Driver: 1: Xonar DG [DG], device 1: Digital [Digital], 1/1 subdevices avail
00:00.948: ALSA error: pcm_hw.c:1667 _snd_pcm_hw_open: Invalid value for card
00:00.948: Couldn't load driver ALSA: dsnd_pcm_open(hw:0): No such file or directory
00:00.948: Initializing driver: DirectSound
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00:00.948: WARNING: Unknown sound driver name: DirectSound
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00:00.948: Initializing driver: ALSA-sw
00:00.949: OS: Linux ver 031110
00:00.949: ALSA error: pcm_hw.c:1667 _snd_pcm_hw_open: Invalid value for card
00:00.949: Couldn't load driver ALSA-sw: dsnd_pcm_open(hw:0): No such file or directory
00:00.949: Initializing driver: DirectSound-sw
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00:00.949: WARNING: Unknown sound driver name: DirectSound-sw
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00:00.949: Initializing driver: CoreAudio
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00:00.949: WARNING: Unknown sound driver name: CoreAudio
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00:00.949: Initializing driver: OSS
00:00.950: Couldn't load driver OSS: RageSound_OSS: Couldn't open /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
00:00.950: Initializing driver: QT1
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00:00.950: WARNING: Unknown sound driver name: QT1
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00:00.950: Initializing driver: WaveOut
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00:00.950: WARNING: Unknown sound driver name: WaveOut
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00:00.950: Initializing driver: Null
00:00.950: Starting thread: Decode thread
00:00.950: Sound driver: Null

The main errors being:

00:00.945: Couldn't open card "hw:0" to get ID: No such file or directory
00:00.948: ALSA error: pcm_hw.c:1667 _snd_pcm_hw_open: Invalid value for card
00:00.948: Couldn't load driver ALSA: dsnd_pcm_open(hw:0): No such file or directory

00:00.949: ALSA error: pcm_hw.c:1667 _snd_pcm_hw_open: Invalid value for card
00:00.949: Couldn't load driver ALSA-sw: dsnd_pcm_open(hw:0): No such file or directory

Seems like my audio card doesn’t have a proper ALSA value. Not entirely sure what to do. Sound from KDE works fine, and aplay plays static just fine. Running OpenITG with aoss also produces audio, but there’s far too much latency to actually play with.

#2

Unlikely to be an openSUSE-specific issue. Consider casting your net wider with

https://github.com/openitg/openitg/wiki#Support

#3

I know it doesn’t say much, but OpenITG worked fine under Ubuntu 14.04 last I checked.

I’m also pretty sure development for OpenITG stopped a good while back :confused:

#4

OpenSUSE uses pulse by default and programs that require alsa may not work. Check yast for lib for alsa-pulse libraries and if 32 bit you will need the 32 bit version also

#5

I’m using 32-bit openSUSE 13.1 currently. I tried disabling PulseAudio from YaST and it didn’t seem to make a difference.

Is there a way to adjust what id sound cards have? I’m unsure as to what the exact issue is, but it seems either OpenITG is just looking for a card ID that doesn’t exist, or that ALSA has an improper ID set to the card.

#6

Got it figured out. Apparently the Xonar DG I was using gets misconfigured in some way with openSUSE.

I took out the card, switched to the onboard Realtek audio, set it up in YaST2, and audio in OpenITG is fine.

Just have to figure out why the card doesn’t get configured right. Works fine under Ubuntu. I noticed that YaST2 mentioned the Xonar DG was using some virtuoso module, but my experience in other distros pointed that it used oxygen. I’m not 100% certain how/if the two names are related though.

#7

You might try running the alsa-info.sh script in different distros and compare the output

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Audio_troubleshooting#STEP-3:_Checking_your_audio_setup_for_detailed_information
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure#Step_3

That should help nail down any differences.