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#1 2011-05-18 19:14:05

NOTAPIYC
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Registered: 2011-05-18
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Problem with Intel-soundcard, no sound...

Hello everyone!

I have a problem with my sound and looking through the forum, this seems to be a recent problem, only that the tipps from the forms did not help me any further, Here's what's wrong:

At the beginning, the problem is identical with this one:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=932392

lspci lists the following:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)

And running lspci -n | grep 00:1b.0 gives me 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:293e (rev 03), exactly like in the linked thread.

But trying to edit the file /var/tmp/alsaconf.cards, I had to discover that it is empty. Simply adding the recommended lines into the empty file does not change anything... what is wrong, what am I missing? Thanks for any help in advance!

Cheers,

Andi

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#2 2011-05-18 19:23:52

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Re: Problem with Intel-soundcard, no sound...

I assume you are using alsa with alsa daemon in rc.conf.

Usual procedure is to run alsaconf.

Then open alsamixer.

Then select F5 and unmute and adjust all pertinent volume settings.

That should provide alsa sound.


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#3 2011-05-18 19:49:37

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Re: Problem with Intel-soundcard, no sound...

Hey, I recognize that thread big_smile

But trying to edit the file /var/tmp/alsaconf.cards, I had to discover that it is empty

Have you already run alsaconf as root at least once?  If so, does some task clean automatically clean /var/tmp for you ?

Regardless, if you do a sudo alsaconf that file should exist afterward.  If you had created one by hand, delete it first.


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#4 2011-05-19 16:45:18

NOTAPIYUC
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Registered: 2011-04-29
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Re: Problem with Intel-soundcard, no sound...

Hello,

thanks a lot, but that did not help. I have alsa included in my startup deamon-list which currently looks like this:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng netfs crond gpm cpufreq acpid dbus networkmanager alsa slim)

During startup, when reaching alsa, it says:

Restoring ALSA Levels:
/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1519: No soundcards found

Deleting any content in /var/tmp/ does not change anything either. When running alsaconf, the file is written but with no content of any kind.

Cheers,

Andi

edit: Don't mind the different user-names, obviously I now found the reason why my attempts to log in did not work yesterday... I will stick to the one I started this thread with, beeing not misspelled.

Last edited by NOTAPIYUC (2011-05-19 16:50:54)

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#5 2011-05-20 14:26:12

ewaller
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Re: Problem with Intel-soundcard, no sound...

When running alsaconf, the file is written but with no content of any kind.

As a flight instructor once said: I'm afraid I'm out altitude, airspeed, and ideas here.


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#6 2011-05-23 21:12:45

hinrich
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Re: Problem with Intel-soundcard, no sound...

Exactly the same problem here...

alsaconf writes an empty /var/tmp/alsaconf.cards. No cards are detected. No sound.

$ lspci |grep HD
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
$ lspci -n |grep 00:1b.0
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:284b (rev 02)

Furthermore, there's no /proc/asound directory at all.

Last edited by hinrich (2011-05-23 21:46:03)

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#7 2011-05-23 21:44:34

hinrich
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Registered: 2009-06-03
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Re: Problem with Intel-soundcard, no sound...

Ok, I fixed it. The last pacman -Syu ate all my sound modules for lunch.... I don't know which package caused it, though. Reinstalling kernel26 brought them back:

pacman -S kernel26

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#8 2011-05-24 20:12:24

NOTAPIYC
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Registered: 2011-05-18
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Re: Problem with Intel-soundcard, no sound...

Awesome! That was it! Thank you very much for this tip!

Cheers,

Andi

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