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gorttherobot

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From: Missouri

Registered: 2012-12-11

Posts: 6

[Solved] No sound, missing alsa.conf?

Hi Everyone,

Tried looking this stuff up myself but found nothing helpful. I have no sound. Here's what happens when i try amixer

amixer
ALSA lib conf.c:3707:(snd_config_update_r) Cannot access file /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf
ALSA lib control.c:953:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Last edited by gorttherobot (2013-06-30 15:04:07)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] No sound, missing alsa.conf?

What's the output of 'ls -l /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf'?

gorttherobot

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From: Missouri

Registered: 2012-12-11

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] No sound, missing alsa.conf?

The file does not exist... Not sure why I even need this file to work, the internet seems to say this file is no longer used in general. Is that true?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] No sound, missing alsa.conf?

The file does not exist...

Reinstall alsa-lib, it provides /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.

Not sure why I even need this file to work, the internet seems to say this file is no longer used in general. Is that true?

I think you confused 'alsaconf' binary with 'alsa.conf' config.

Last edited by karol (2013-06-30 15:00:37)

gorttherobot

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From: Missouri

Registered: 2012-12-11

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] No sound, missing alsa.conf?

Thanks! That took care of it. I had to remove a "corrupted asound.conf" afterwords but sound is back!