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#1 2011-01-10 20:57:58

thelastknowngod
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[solved]audio not working

audio was working fine up until a few days ago. i tried setting an alarm clock with kalarm and when i tried to test the command (just vlc some/file/name.mp3) i would hear some KDE chime that says the command was run. when vlc loaded though, i got an error saying that i needed to update alsa-lib to a new version. i reinstalled both alsa and vlc.. same error.

now i get no sound at all.

ive run alsaconf and the card seems to be successfully installed but when i run alsamixer i get this error:

cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

other info:

~ # ls /dev/snd/
by-path  controlC1  controlC2  hwC1D0  pcmC1D0c  pcmC1D0p  pcmC1D1p  seq  timer
~ # cat /proc/asound/cards 
 1 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfe020000 irq 49
 2 [ThinkPadEC     ]: ThinkPad EC - ThinkPad Console Audio Control
                      ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw 7KHT24WW-1.08

any ideas?

Last edited by thelastknowngod (2011-01-15 01:49:58)

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#2 2011-01-11 00:18:19

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Re: [solved]audio not working

ahh crap.. just realized i put this in DE. meant to put it in Workstation User.

please move.

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#3 2011-01-12 22:45:37

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Re: [solved]audio not working

bump

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#4 2011-01-12 23:27:23

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Re: [solved]audio not working

Is your user a part of the audio group?

# gpasswd -a audio nonrootuser

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#5 2011-01-12 23:50:32

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Re: [solved]audio not working

yes i am.

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#6 2011-01-13 00:08:47

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Re: [solved]audio not working

thelastknowngod wrote:

yes i am.

1) Can you start/stop the alsa daemon?

# /etc/rc.d/alsa start

2) Could you please post the output of the following:

$ lsmod | grep snd

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#7 2011-01-13 00:59:12

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Re: [solved]audio not working

restarting alsa works without issue.

~ $ lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_analog    53000  1 
snd_hda_intel          19180  0 
snd_hda_codec          69419  2 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy           1079  0 
snd_seq_oss            25040  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      4496  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                41688  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          4369  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            33694  0 
snd_hwdep               4764  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                59168  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_mixer_oss          14654  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              15455  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    43283  12 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,thinkpad_acpi,snd_timer
soundcore               4929  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          5981  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

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#8 2011-01-13 19:01:34

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Re: [solved]audio not working

Can you start alsamixer as root or with sudo?


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#9 2011-01-13 20:24:42

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Re: [solved]audio not working

nope. i get the same error for both root and normal user..

cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

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#10 2011-01-13 20:56:49

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Re: [solved]audio not working

i also just booted a Mint live disc and everything worked perfectly so its not hardware.

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#11 2011-01-13 20:59:28

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Re: [solved]audio not working

Moving to Newbie Corner....
thelastknownGod, instead of posting consecutively, use the "Edit" feature.


Forum Rules

There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !

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#12 2011-01-13 21:02:32

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Re: [solved]audio not working

Could pulse audio be the problem?

Last edited by Mr Green (2011-01-13 21:04:32)


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#13 2011-01-13 21:04:17

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Re: [solved]audio not working

i have alsa installed. no pulse.

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#14 2011-01-13 21:05:36

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Re: [solved]audio not working

try removing ~/.asoundrc if present


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#15 2011-01-13 21:08:28

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Re: [solved]audio not working

i have no ~/.asoundrc

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#16 2011-01-13 21:14:14

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Re: [solved]audio not working

You may want to read Arch wiki on Alsa, not sure what the problem is guessing you have updated your system lately.


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#17 2011-01-13 21:35:39

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Re: [solved]audio not working

Is alsa-utils installed?

pacman -S alsa-utils

Rauchen verboten

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#18 2011-01-13 21:38:54

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Re: [solved]audio not working

well i was having weird little issues like i described in the first post. i updated my system hoping that it would fix the problem (i hadnt updated in a looong time). now i have nothing.

i uninstalled all of KDE thinking that it was some weird issue with ARTS or phonon or whatever the hell KDE uses.. still get nothing.

ive read the wiki but im still having issues.


alsa-utils are installed.

Last edited by thelastknowngod (2011-01-13 21:39:17)

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#19 2011-01-14 03:07:04

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Re: [solved]audio not working

If it's been a long time since you've updated, I'm guessing that there was probably a kernel update in the mix.  If so, perhaps all you need to do is to reboot and use the new kernel.


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#20 2011-01-14 05:56:57

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Re: [solved]audio not working

nope. ive rebooted quite a few times since updating.

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#21 2011-01-14 07:36:46

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Re: [solved]audio not working

If you have only recently updated and this was around the time of sound problem then you may have to check that pacman is up to date and mirrorlist is up to date

Check pacman pkg version against main site


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#22 2011-01-14 08:15:50

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Re: [solved]audio not working

core/pacman 3.4.2-1 [installed] (base)
    A library-based package manager with dependency support
core/pacman-mirrorlist 20101223-1 [installed]
    Arch Linux mirror list for use by pacman

looks good to me.

and ive uninstalled and reinstalled alsa thinking it may have been an update issue.

no dice.

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#23 2011-01-14 08:22:03

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Re: [solved]audio not working

Is alsamixer still not working?


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#24 2011-01-14 08:30:41

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Re: [solved]audio not working

still doesnt work. if i run alsamixer i get:

cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

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#25 2011-01-14 08:36:16

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Re: [solved]audio not working

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-81 … art-0.html

There are plenty of hits while searching for above error, udev could be the problem

# edit: removed obfuscated link

Last edited by jasonwryan (2011-01-14 08:42:00)


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