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Hello, all,
I installed Arch Linux yesterday, and I have to say I'm extremely impressed...Arch appears to be what I've been looking for in a distro for a very long time.
That being said, I can't get my sound to work properly.
I'm running Arch on a VAIO VGN-FS690P laptop, which has a built in sound card (that works perfectly.) I also have an external sound card (the problem one,) a USB External Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24 bit.
When I initially installed Arch and then Gnome, the card showed up in the mixer I couldn't get it to produce sound no matter how hard I tried. I tried some things on the ALSA page of the Arch Wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Alsa#Configuration) including installing alsa-utils, running 'alsactl store' (I know this just stores sound settings for a current session,) and adding alsa to my daemons list in /etc/rc.conf. Now the GNOME mixer remembered volume settings, but my external card still didn't work.
Next I turned to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Cr … _%28usb%29 . I made a ~/.asoundrc file with these contents from the aforementioned link:
pcm.usb-audio {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.usb-audio {
type hw
card 0
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}
pcm.dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1025 # Should be a unique number
slave {
pcm "hw:0"
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}Amarok was finally able to play sound through the card, but it stuttered. Even though I've since removed the ~/.asoundrc file, the card is still half-working probably because the ALSA daemon stored the settings on shutdown, and restores them on bootup.
I have not been able to get the sound card to work with any program besides Amarok. Banshee can't play any files back. When I run alsamixer, my laptop's internal card is displayed. If I try to run aplay, I get this error message:
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
aplay: main:545: audio open error: Device or resource busyWhy is the card only half working...why won't it work in any application besides Amarok?
Any help would be appreciated.
Last edited by tidalwav1 (2007-05-20 20:26:45)
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try disable ESD deamon.
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I was since able to fix my sound problems by bringing up said problems in #ALSA on Freenode IRC. ESD was indeed one of the culprits. Thanks for your help!
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