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r_j_h

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From: Bletchley, UK

Registered: 2010-03-06

Posts: 19

[solved] Sounds failed since last update.

My system was fine on Friday, sounds playing normally.

I used the machine briefly over the weekend and as normal kept things updated with pacman -Syu. I am aware that plenty was downloaded and I think that I noticed a kernel rebuild.

Today I have no sound. The rest of the system is functioning normally, but movies play silently and sound files do not play at all.

I have looked through dmesg and tried 'dmesg | grep -i alsa' and 'dmesg | grep -i oss' with nothing to report. Wondering if it was some volume problem I tried aumix and it gave the error:

[me@two ~]$  aumix
aumix:  error opening mixer: No such file or directory

[me@two ~]$ 

So:
- Is there anything else that I should try?
- Is there some final stage to the weekend's updates that I stupidly overlooked?
- Has anyone else experienced similar?

I suppose that it it possible that this is a random occurrence and that the update is a complete coincidence. Is there any way to tell?

Thanks in advance,

Richard.

Last edited by r_j_h (2011-05-31 14:17:36)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [solved] Sounds failed since last update.

You can try

modprobe snd_pcm_oss

The devs removed some udev rules one of which autoloaded those modules.
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 00793.html

Last edited by karol (2011-05-31 14:06:36)

r_j_h

Member

From: Bletchley, UK

Registered: 2010-03-06

Posts: 19

Re: [solved] Sounds failed since last update.

You can try

modprobe snd_pcm_oss

The devs removed some udev rules one of which autoloaded those modules.
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 00793.html

Superb! That solved it.

Many thanks,

R.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [solved] Sounds failed since last update.

In order to load it at every boot, add it to you MODULES array in rc.conf

MODULES=(... snd_pcm_oss ...)