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fuyushu

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Registered: 2007-05-27

Posts: 9

help me,i can not hear nothing

hi all ,
i am a newbie of linux.My notebook is HP CompaQ V3159AU.OS is Archlinux(Duke) with kernel 2.6.21-3.
i use xfce4 desktop manager. i have install "alsa-lib alsa-utils and alsa-oss",but i can not hear nothing when i play mp3 with beep or another player(the player works well). And there is not "PCM" in the Volume Control .

i have already done according to the method mentioned in "http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Alsa".

[root@myhost ~]# lsmod|grep '^snd'
snd_seq_oss            29056  0
snd_seq_midi_event      6528  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                46800  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6796  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_intel         254104  1
snd_pcm_oss            38816  0
snd_pcm                68484  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              19076  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          7816  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          14336  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    44388  10            snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss

[root@myhost ~]# ls -l /dev/snd/
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 2007-05-27 10:37 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2007-05-27 10:37 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2007-05-27 10:37 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 17 2007-05-27 10:37 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  1 2007-05-27 10:37 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2007-05-27 10:37 timer

However,It didn't have any effect.

I am sorry, my english is poor. I wish it would be understand. thanks !

igglybuff

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Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 29

Re: help me,i can not hear nothing

Have you tried alsaconf?

hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: help me,i can not hear nothing

probably you already did this, but.. are you positive you unmuted your speakers?

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: help me,i can not hear nothing

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Alsa should cover almost everything.

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paul_au

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Registered: 2006-04-13

Posts: 38

Re: help me,i can not hear nothing

as hacosta said, easiest thing to do is open up a terminal and run alsamixer

Unmute everything (Master and PCM will be muted by default) and up the volumes then hit esc to save the changes.  See if that works.

harlekin

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-13

Posts: 408

Re: help me,i can not hear nothing

You're in audio group, aren't you?

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scoon

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From: Philadelphia,PA

Registered: 2007-05-21

Posts: 18

Re: help me,i can not hear nothing

Hopefully this is a super dumb suggestions: Have you /etc/rc.d/alsa start ?

-scoon

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Marcel-

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From: Utrecht, NL

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 266

Re: help me,i can not hear nothing

The alsa daemon isn't required to play sound, it is just to restore volume settings at startup. See the ALSA Setup Wiki

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: help me,i can not hear nothing

another really dumb question: are you sure the volume on the laptop itself is up, and unmuted?

oops, i see hacosta already covered that, n/m.

Last edited by slackhack (2007-05-27 14:04:53)

scoon

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From: Philadelphia,PA

Registered: 2007-05-21

Posts: 18

Re: help me,i can not hear nothing

The alsa daemon isn't required to play sound, it is just to restore volume settings at startup. See the ALSA Setup Wiki

Hmmmm.  Interesting, I didn't have sound until I started the daemon.

-scoon

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harlekin

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-13

Posts: 408

Re: help me,i can not hear nothing

Because all the daemon does, is restoring your sound levels (volume, muteing). If you boot your PC, all sound devices are muted. Either you have to unmute them manually and configure the volume or you let alsa daemon do this for you.

Last edited by harlekin (2007-05-27 16:34:39)

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l33tunderground

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Registered: 2007-05-09

Posts: 103

Re: help me,i can not hear nothing

Your lsmod's and stuff look exactly the same as mine so I'll tell you what I did:

pacman -S alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-oss alsaplayer <---- !!!!
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/whatever.wav
Then alsamixer and PCM shows up, change front to a higher volume
Add alsa to daemons

**EDIT** Try that first, but if that doesn't work through in an alsaconf too before the aplay **EDIT**

Last edited by l33tunderground (2007-05-28 12:33:33)

fuyushu

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Registered: 2007-05-27

Posts: 9

Re: help me,i can not hear nothing

thank you

i have done all the things you said.However it's useless.And I can hear the sound sometimes after one or more rebootings