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holland01

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Registered: 2011-12-22

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Sounds Issues in Gnome 3

Hello everyone - I'm running Gnome and just installed arch. Tried using the wiki to setup my sound modules, but as soon as typed `alsamixer` to run the thing, I wound up with an error that resembled the following:

ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

cannot open mixer: Connection refused

When I check gstreamer-properties, and test my sound devices, the following error pops up as well:

Could not open audio device for playback.

I'd really like to know why my sound isn't working, and what I can do to fix it.

Thanks.

Last edited by holland01 (2011-12-22 03:49:40)

holland01

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Re: Sounds Issues in Gnome 3

Update

Just tried alsaconf, and that unfortunately didn't do anything...

ewaller

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Re: Sounds Issues in Gnome 3

When logged in as your user, what is the output of groups

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holland01

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Re: Sounds Issues in Gnome 3

How do I check that? btw, my card is this:

Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller 

Edit:

I should also note that my sound configuration applet in the upper right corner of the screen is missing...

Last edited by holland01 (2011-12-22 04:22:04)

ewaller

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Re: Sounds Issues in Gnome 3

Open a terminal program and type 'groups' followed by the Enter key

(I guess I could have made it more clear that groups is a CLI program)

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holland01

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Re: Sounds Issues in Gnome 3

Ok, my output is

 root users 

ewaller

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Re: Sounds Issues in Gnome 3

Please tell me you are not running Gnome as root.

The group root should not be in any users groups list. 
You might want to read this article on sudo
And this article on user account management.  Note the bit about groups.  Create a user and add them to the audio group.

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holland01

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Re: Sounds Issues in Gnome 3

Ok, thanks for the tip. I added audio to my groups list, logged out and logged in, and it still isn't working. Is there anything else I can do?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

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Re: Sounds Issues in Gnome 3

Are you logging in as root?

When you ran alsaconf, were you logged in as root?

What is the output of ps -ef |grep pulse  ??

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holland01

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Re: Sounds Issues in Gnome 3

I was su'd in as root, that much was true.

holland  30123 28843  0 21:25 pts/0    00:00:00 grep pulse

Edit:

upon doing a `force-restart` on alsa, I got the following:

:: Trying to TERM or KILL processes that are blocking ALSA...                                                                                                        [BUSY] Cannot stat /dev/snd/by-path:: Bad address
Cannot stat pci-0000:00:1b.0: Bad address
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:   28847m
/dev/snd/timer:      28847
Cannot stat /dev/snd/by-path:: Bad address
Cannot stat pci-0000:00:1b.0: Bad address
                                                                                                                                                                     [DONE] 
:: Saving ALSA Levels                                                                                                                                                [DONE] 
:: Restoring ALSA Levels    

Last edited by holland01 (2011-12-22 05:30:02)

BSOD666

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Re: Sounds Issues in Gnome 3

o_O wait is sound added to your account? it should look something like this

A typical desktop system example, adding a user named archie specifying bash as the login shell:
# useradd -m -g users -G audio,lp,optical,storage,video,wheel,games,power,scanner -s /bin/bash archie

src: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Users_and_Groups