No Sound?

Posibile · 2012-05-26 07:18:23

Hi all!
I just installed Arch yesterday. I have a Win Vista dual boot and the sound is working fine on Windows, so the hardware is fine.
I have an ASUS Maximum IV Gene-Z motherboard with 5.1 speakers plugged in. Gfx card is a 570 GTX.

I have Xorg etc. installed and have KDE installed and working fine.
I can't seem to get any sound. I have Alsa/Pulseaudio installed

(Also, I can't find my Modprobe.conf file?)

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC889 Analog [ALC889 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC889 Digital [ALC889 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Also

$ lsmod | grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     24120   5
snd_hda_codec_realtek  114123  1
snd_hda_intel          24021   3
snd_hda_codec          92713   3   snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
snd_hwdep              6556    1   snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                74812   3   snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
snd_page_alloc         7217    2   snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer              19222   1   snd_pcm
snd                    59656   13  snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi

Thanks!

Posibile · 2012-05-26 07:21:57

Edit:

Tweaking with Pulse/Alsa then rebooting has given me a boot up sound for KDE. I'll test more and post back.

I get sound when opening up KDE, and shutting down. But no sound within programs when running KDE.

Last edited by Posibile (2012-05-26 07:41:03)

ConnorBehan · 2012-05-26 07:51:05

Can you "aplay" a wav file? Do you get sound when running "mplayer -ao alsa" on a media file? If so, the problem is Pulse.

Posibile · 2012-05-26 07:59:50

No output from either of those commands. What could be wrong with Pulse?

ConnorBehan · 2012-05-26 09:21:57

No output as in no sound? That would mean the problem is ALSA. If you fix that, Pulse will probably start working too. Have you looked at all the sliders in "alsamixer"? Make sure none of them are volume 0 and press M to make sure none of them are muted. If you get "startup sound" from KDE, at least one of them must be unmuted.

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#1 2012-05-26 07:18:23

No Sound?

#2 2012-05-26 07:21:57

Re: No Sound?

#3 2012-05-26 07:51:05

Re: No Sound?

#4 2012-05-26 07:59:50

Re: No Sound?

#5 2012-05-26 09:21:57

Re: No Sound?

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