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#1 2010-10-06 10:28:50

mibadt
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Registered: 2009-09-25
Posts: 396

Onboard audio modules won't load after Skype install on 64b Arch

Hi,
I've a fully updated Arch 64b/KDE 4.5.2 (new PC).
My motherboard has a Realtek ALC889 Audio controller, and, in addition I have a Radeon 5600 graphic PCIe card with HDMI output.
I have the on-board audio controller enabled at the BIOS.
Initially, my audio worked fine, till I installed (from Arch repositories) Skype along with required 32b libraries.

My current status, after reboot:
The 889 module is not loaded (see below), only the one included in the graphic card.
When logging in KDE, I do hear the sounds.
Although Skype loads and logs-in fine, I can't hear Skype's test sounds nor does it capture the microphone connected to my motherboard back microphone plug. (Skype options offer ONLy Pulse Audio both for output and capture).

Both alsa-utils and alsa-oss are installed.

Please advise how do I restore full Audio capabilities (along with functional Skype).

Thanks!
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I've tried to follow the Alsa wiki of Arch with the following results:

lspci | grep Audio
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5600 Series]


ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct  6 12:05 snd_hda_codec -> ../../snd_hda_codec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct  6 12:05 snd_hda_codec_realtek -> ../../snd_hda_codec_realtek
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct  6 12:05 snd_hda_intel -> ../../snd_hda_intel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct  6 12:05 snd_hwdep -> ../../snd_hwdep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct  6 12:05 snd_mixer_oss -> ../../snd_mixer_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct  6 12:05 snd_pcm -> ../../snd_pcm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct  6 12:05 snd_pcm_oss -> ../../snd_pcm_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct  6 12:05 snd_seq -> ../../snd_seq
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct  6 12:05 snd_seq_device -> ../../snd_seq_device
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct  6 12:05 snd_seq_oss -> ../../snd_seq_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct  6 12:05 snd_timer -> ../../snd_timer


I've tried to modify my /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf to the following  but, during boot, noticed a message saying modprobe ignores the option due to an error. The same happened also after omitting the "index=0" per the Wiki's recommendation.

# /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf (for v2.6 kernels)
#
options snd-pcsp index=2

# disable autoload of ipv6
alias net-pf-10 off

# added by miki
options snd_hda_codec_realtek  index=0
options snd-pcsp index=1

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Best regards,
Michael Badt

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