The audio completely died on my N900. No sound from the speakers, headphones, or bluetooth.

The answer at this point is to re-flash, but I never learn anything that way. If I can figure it out, I will learn more.


The typical error I got was something like "audio in use by another application".
Also, when I would stop and re-start pulseaudio I got a lot of error messages.

I had some broken packages. I went through and cleaned up all my packages and dependencies.

Now pulseaudio starts cleanly and I don't get any error messages when playing audio.
But there still isn't any sound coming out.

Some things I've tried that aren't the problem:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=894243&postcount=5
libflac8 is not optified

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=894209&postcount=3
cycle pulseaudio
I used to get this problem. After cleaning up packages pulseaudio is now stopping and starting cleanly.

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=882093&postcount=4
libsndfile1 is the 0m5 version... not ogg version

cold reboots performed after all these fixes.


I could be missing some package critical to audio but I'm not sure what it might be.
I made sure I have these:

pulseaudio
libpulse-mainloop-glib0
libpulse0
pulseaudio-esound-compat
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
pulseaudio-module-extra
pulseaudio-module-gconf
pulseaudio-module-hal
pulseaudio-module-x11
pulseaudio-utils

I can use aplay to play wav files and that works fine, but no sound comes out.

Considering the progress I've made, I'll keep working on it.

1st question i might have is... what packages are critical for audio?

Also, I should mention, the volume is turned up.

These are the pulse packages installed on my N900.
I've got CSSU-testing(thumb) installed, but that doesn't influence these results.

You missing anything?
Could you also check if anything unusual is turned all down in alsamixer -c0?
I can provide you with the standard values of all items in alsamixer on request.

Edit: Offtopic, but I just wanted to say thank you for thinking ahead and providing so much information with your question
I definitely respect your way of thinking too: fixing the problem itself instead of reflashing.

SUCCESS!!!!

Thanks so much ffha. I was missing everything after pulseaudio-module-nokia-common. Once I re-installed those and rebooted I have sound back!!!!

THANKS!!!

You're welcome, Flynx

Also off-topic, but +1 to both of you!