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srivinprabhash

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From: Gampaha,Sri Lanka.

Registered: 2015-05-20

Posts: 12

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Sound Card not detecting

Hello ,

Im kind a newbie to Arch. I have both onboard soundcard and a Seperate sound card on my computer. But i have disabled the onboard soundcard by BIOS.

According to the Wiki 'ALSA' should detect the driver and sound should work by default. But it didnt.

When I run 'aplay -l' it give me this.

[srivinprabhash@Girlfriend ~]$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...
[srivinprabhash@Girlfriend ~]$ 

But when i run 'lspci | grep audio' it gives me this.

[srivinprabhash@Girlfriend ~]$ lspci | grep audio
0b:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/CMI8768 PCI Audio (rev 10)
[srivinprabhash@Girlfriend ~]$

Its my seperate Soundcard. I searched for a solution and didnt found anything helpful .

And here's the result of cat /etc/asound.conf (I dont know if its usefull or not)

[srivinprabhash@Girlfriend ~]$ cat /etc/asound.conf
# Use PulseAudio by default
pcm.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
  hint {
    show on
    description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
  }
}

ctl.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
}

# vim:set ft=alsaconf:

Please help me to fix this.

Thanks !

Last edited by srivinprabhash (2016-07-23 16:12:50)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,665

Re: Sound Card not detecting

What's the output of

lspci -k | grep -A3 audio

? anything in dmesg mentioning a reason why the soundcard can't be loaded?

srivinprabhash

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From: Gampaha,Sri Lanka.

Registered: 2015-05-20

Posts: 12

Website

Re: Sound Card not detecting

@V1del

Thanks for your reply..

What's the output of

lspci -k | grep -A3 audio

here is the result of 'lspci -k | grep -A3 audio'

[srivinprabhash@Girlfriend ~]$ lspci -k | grep -A3 audio
0b:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/CMI8768 PCI Audio (rev 10)
	Subsystem: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
	Kernel modules: snd_cmipci

Gosi

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2010-02-25

Posts: 100

Re: Sound Card not detecting

Do you have alsa-firmware installed?