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Thrillhouse

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From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 175

[SOLVED] Sound card not recognized

I tried following the ALSA setup guide on the Wiki to get my sound working but I don't think Arch recognizes my sound card.  I found out from lshwd that the module is snd-intel8x0 so I modprobed that and snd-pcm-oss, changed the values in alsamixer, added myself to the audio group, installed alsa-utils, alsa-lib and alsa-oss and restarted everything but I still have no sound.  Here's some output:

 lsmod | grep '^snd'
snd_intel8x0           28700  1 
snd_ac97_codec         95780  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            38688  0 
snd_pcm                69124  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_device          6796  0 
snd_mixer_oss          14592  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              19076  1 snd_pcm
snd                    44516  9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_mixer_oss,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc          7816  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

 ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 2007-07-12 21:35 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2007-07-12 21:35 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2007-07-12 21:35 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 25 2007-07-12 21:35 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 26 2007-07-12 21:35 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 27 2007-07-12 21:35 pcmC0D3c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 20 2007-07-12 21:35 pcmC0D4p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2007-07-12 13:02 timer

The wiki says that if you have controlC0 and pcmC0D0p in that output then the modules have been loaded properly and they are both there so I'm not sure where to go from here.  Your help would be appreciated.

Last edited by Thrillhouse (2007-07-12 22:23:29)

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mitsoko

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From: In the Coal Chamber

Registered: 2007-05-08

Posts: 143

Re: [SOLVED] Sound card not recognized

you need to start alsa if you haven't already done so... /etc/alsa start
prolly better to run alsacoconf if you still have problems

Thrillhouse

Member

From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 175

Re: [SOLVED] Sound card not recognized

There we go.  Running alsaconf did the trick.

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