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meowstars

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Registered: 2012-10-17

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Alsa can't find my soundcard

Hi !
First of all, I'm new to this forum so, if I made a mistake about posting in the wrong section, I'm sorry.

I've a strange problem on my netbook with alsa.
It's a fresh arch x86_64 installation. Udev detects my sound card. I can see it in /proc/asound/cards

% cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel                       
HDA Intel at 0xf7cf8000 irq 45

But when I enter for example aplay -l that shows me that no cards was found

% aplay -l
aplay: device_list:256: aucune carte son n'a été trouvée...

I can also see that snd-hda-intel was loaded with lsmod. I'm absolutely lost.
Maybe someone could help me fixing that problem.

I also paste you the result of lspci -v for my soundcard, It will maybe help...

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
         Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8437
         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
         Memory at f7cf8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
         Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
         Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
         Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
         Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link
         Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

Feel free to ask for another command output.
Thank you.

Last edited by meowstars (2012-10-18 09:25:42)

corion

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Registered: 2008-09-13

Posts: 36

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Re: [SOLVED] Alsa can't find my soundcard

This morning I have had the same problem, but adding the user to the audio group helps, i.e.:

gpasswd -a user audio

then close everything, logout and relogin.

Last edited by corion (2012-10-18 10:35:29)

meowstars

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Registered: 2012-10-17

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Alsa can't find my soundcard

Awesome...
I think I forgot this one when I created my new login.
Thank you