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mich04

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From: Illinois - United States

Registered: 2011-10-25

Posts: 390

Alsamixer will not start [solved]

Hi,
So I installed Arch and I was going to unmute my sound  like I normally do, but here is what is happening.

 [root@pie pizza]# pacman -S alsa-utils
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (7): dialog-1.1_20111020-1  flac-1.2.1-3  libogg-1.3.0-1
             libsamplerate-0.1.8-1  libsndfile-1.0.25-2  libvorbis-1.3.3-1
             alsa-utils-1.0.25-1

Total Installed Size:   14.48 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
(7/7) checking package integrity                   [######################] 100%
(7/7) loading package files                        [######################] 100%
(7/7) checking for file conflicts                  [######################] 100%
(7/7) checking available disk space                [######################] 100%
(1/7) installing dialog                            [######################] 100%
(2/7) installing libogg                            [######################] 100%
(3/7) installing flac                              [######################] 100%
Optional dependencies for flac
    xmms: for using the xmms plugin
(4/7) installing libvorbis                         [######################] 100%
(5/7) installing libsndfile                        [######################] 100%
(6/7) installing libsamplerate                     [######################] 100%
(7/7) installing alsa-utils                        [######################] 100%
[root@pie pizza]# alsamixer
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory
[root@pie pizza]# 

I can see the command in /usr/bin, I can also see it with pacman -Q. I have also tried to run
pacman -Rns alsa-utils
pacman -Syu
pacman -S alsa-utils

same result

I tried to use the command in my user account and in my root.

Last edited by mich04 (2012-02-11 20:42:59)

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mich04

Member

From: Illinois - United States

Registered: 2011-10-25

Posts: 390

Re: Alsamixer will not start [solved]

Never mind Apparently for some reason my the settings in my bios disabled my on-board sound. That was causing the error. I enabled it in bios and now the sound works.

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