Audio turns off

ibendiben · 2007-10-10 09:50:53

Hello there,

A few days ago I installed Archlinux on my Compaq 6710b. I got it all to work. I installed kde and everything wend fine but when I changed a few network settings and I rebooted (via console) it booted into a console login. I looked to my settings again, saw I made a mistake, corrected it and rebooted again, yess kde turned up. But now I noticed that my mute light touchbutton is on and I have no sound after boot. Thing is, when I turn it on (sound), after a while it turns itself off (sound off, light on) again. I don't know what's happening but I remember in Sabayon linux I had the same problem ones when I pulled out the cable after it hanged. So maybe it has something to do with the wrong reboot. When it doesn't turn off right, and I do it manually. In Arch however, I rebooted via console in kde.

Hope someone can help...

rson451 · 2007-10-10 13:59:02

do your speakers pop when you turn the sound back on? do you use the snd-hda-intel driver? if so, i have the same exact problem and have for a while but noone seems to know the answer. if not, im not sure what could be causing it.

ibendiben · 2007-10-10 16:07:16

found it

It has got something to do with the booting and turning off, but anyway, the alsalevels were muted. So with alsamixer I unmuted them and putted them in the right levels again. Now it works again.

Hope it works for you too... I have the same driver, the popping I'm not sure off.

fwojciec · 2007-10-10 16:13:52

You should use alsa daemon to store and restore mixer levels on shutdown/bootup - if you're not using it at the moment that is

ibendiben · 2007-10-10 16:42:56

Offcourse I have alsa deamon loaded at startup. That's not it. But when you shut off your computer 'wrong' for whatever reason, it fails to restore the levels and mutes.
So you have to restore the levels manually with alsamixer (console: alsamixer >m to unmute and than de arrowkeys to set levels).
The topic can close I think, since it's solved for me, I don't know about the other fellow.

rson451 · 2007-10-10 20:52:02

completely different problem glad you got yours fixed though.

na12 · 2009-01-18 17:55:37

rson451 wrote:

do your speakers pop when you turn the sound back on? do you use the snd-hda-intel driver? if so, i have the same exact problem and have for a while but noone seems to know the answer. if not, im not sure what could be causing it.

any solution descovered?

T-u-N-i-X · 2010-12-12 12:15:09

Hey There,

I have the same problem. Despite I've set the volume levels in alsamixer and stored them using alsactl store, alsa daemon cannot restore the levels at boot. So this is definetely a problem!

jorchube · 2010-12-13 18:43:57

I'm suffering the same problem on my Eee... but not on my "big" laptop (Compal HEL80) (i686), nor in the desktop computer T_T. I've tried almost everything regarding to alsamixer, alsactl, and what is said in the wiki

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Audio turns off

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