No joy when I plugged a Bose Corporation Companion 5 USB sound
system
into an up-to-date (27Oct2009) Rawhide machine. Perhaps there are
essential pieces missing because this was a Live system installed to
disk, not a full F12 installation from DVD. This sound system works when
connected to a Fedora 11 machine, although I feel it is definitely less
stable recently than early in the life of F11.
Can someone say they have this type of USB audio output working with F12,
and thus suggest it is an installation/configuration issue instead of
something actually broken?
/var/log/messages has this to say (full log is at
http://ryniker.ods.org/errors/eee_log2):
Oct 27 20:50:07 eee kernel: usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address
2
Oct 27 20:50:08 eee kernel: usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05a7, idProduct=1020
Oct 27 20:50:08 eee kernel: usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=0
Oct 27 20:50:08 eee kernel: usb 3-2: Product: Bose USB Audio
Oct 27 20:50:08 eee kernel: usb 3-2: Manufacturer: Bose Corporation
Oct 27 20:50:08 eee kernel: usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Oct 27 20:50:08 eee kernel: generic-usb 0003:05A7:1020.0001: hiddev96,hidraw0: USB HID
v1.10 Device [Bose Corporation Bose USB Audio] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input2
Oct 27 20:50:08 eee kernel: ALSA sound/usb/usbaudio.c:1295: 2:1:1: cannot get freq at ep
0x1
Oct 27 20:50:08 eee kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
Oct 27 20:50:08 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working
profile.
Oct 27 20:50:08 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module.c: Failed to load module
"module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1"
name="usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00"
card_name="alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00" tsched=yes
ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""):
initialization failed.
Oct 27 20:50:08 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working
profile.
Oct 27 20:50:08 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module.c: Failed to load module
"module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1"
name="usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00"
card_name="alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00" tsched=yes
ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""):
initialization failed.
Oct 27 20:50:09 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working
profile.
Oct 27 20:50:09 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module.c: Failed to load module
"module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1"
name="usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00"
card_name="alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00" tsched=yes
ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""):
initialization failed.
Oct 27 20:50:09 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working
profile.
Oct 27 20:50:09 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module.c: Failed to load module
"module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1"
name="usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00"
card_name="alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00" tsched=yes
ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""):
initialization failed.
Oct 27 20:50:09 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working
profile.
Oct 27 20:50:09 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module.c: Failed to load module
"module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1"
name="usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00"
card_name="alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00" tsched=yes
ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""):
initialization failed.
Oct 27 20:50:09 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working
profile.
Oct 27 20:50:09 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module.c: Failed to load module
"module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1"
name="usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00"
card_name="alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00" tsched=yes
ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""):
initialization failed.
Oct 27 20:50:09 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-udev-detect.c: Tried to configure
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/sound/card1
(alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00) more often than 5 times in 10s
Oct 27 20:50:11 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-udev-detect.c: Failed to open
/proc/asound/card1: No such file or directory
Oct 27 20:50:11 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-udev-detect.c: Tried to configure
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/sound/card1
(alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00) more often than 5 times in 10s
Oct 27 20:50:11 eee kernel: usb 3-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and
address 2
Oct 27 20:50:11 eee kernel: ALSA sound/usb/usbaudio.c:1295: 2:1:1: cannot get freq at ep
0x1
Oct 27 20:50:11 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working
profile.
Oct 27 20:50:11 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module.c: Failed to load module
"module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1"
name="usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00"
card_name="alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00" tsched=yes
ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""):
initialization failed.
Oct 27 20:50:12 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working
profile.
Oct 27 20:50:12 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module.c: Failed to load module
"module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1"
name="usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00"
card_name="alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00" tsched=yes
ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""):
initialization failed.
Oct 27 20:50:12 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working
profile.
Oct 27 20:50:12 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module.c: Failed to load module
"module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1"
name="usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00"
card_name="alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00" tsched=yes
ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""):
initialization failed.
Oct 27 20:50:12 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working
profile.
Oct 27 20:50:12 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module.c: Failed to load module
"module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1"
name="usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00"
card_name="alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00" tsched=yes
ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""):
initialization failed.
Oct 27 20:50:12 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working
profile.
Oct 27 20:50:12 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module.c: Failed to load module
"module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1"
name="usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00"
card_name="alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00" tsched=yes
ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""):
initialization failed.
Oct 27 20:50:12 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working
profile.
Oct 27 20:50:12 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module.c: Failed to load module
"module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1"
name="usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00"
card_name="alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00" tsched=yes
ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""):
initialization failed.
Oct 27 20:50:12 eee pulseaudio[1451]: module-udev-detect.c: Tried to configure
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/sound/card1
(alsa_card.usb-Bose_Corporation_Bose_USB_Audio-00) more often than 5 times in 10s
First run alsamixer -c0 and check if something might be muted then you
can try to editing /etc/pulse/default.pa and comment out line 52 53 54
and 58
so it looks like this..
### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
#.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
#load-module module-udev-detect
#.else
### Alternatively use the static hardware detection module (for systems that
### lack udev support)
load-module module-detect
#.endif
Then run killall pulseaudio && pulseaudio and see if you get some sound
out of those bose speakers..
JBG