Removing and reinstalling audio after sound is gone due to update

goetzkluge · 2011-10-03 15:37:28

After the recent (Sunday 2011-10-02) update sound was gone. I removed pulseaudio, but I still can't get sound (Details: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p998569)

(Is removing pulseaudio a good idea anyway?)

I am using use XFCE. (I do not use graphical login. I start with an alias in the console: "alias start='startx > ~/.startx.log 2> ~/.startxerror.log'")

Perhaps the simplest thing is to remove and reinstall the audio stuff. I now also want to remove Alsa and Jack. After that I only want to re-install Alsa.

Question: Does brutally removing pulseaudio, alsa and jack using pacman -Rdd cause any harm? I would do that in the console (not X running) and then reinstall alsa?

(Sorry, sound is the main thing I have trouble with in Linux. Recently it got a bit complicated with sound, dbus and udev etc.)

Last edited by goetzkluge (2011-10-03 17:27:04)

goetzkluge · 2011-10-03 16:30:33

Problem solved.

After I removed pulseaudio, I deleted

/etc/asound.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf
/etc/pulse/

Then autodetection seems to have worked fine.

Last edited by goetzkluge (2011-10-03 16:31:14)

bernarcher · 2011-10-03 19:02:48

goetzkluge, all right then, could you please mark this thread [SOLVED].

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Removing and reinstalling audio after sound is gone due to update

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