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eth3real

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Registered: 2008-06-02

Posts: 3

Sound problems

Hello,

Setup Archlinux and kde-mod via the Beginners Guide (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide).
I have two users on this computer, both members of the audio group.
One user has no problem initializing sound when KDE loads.
The other (mine, also member of the video and wheel groups), the loading sound after login does not play, and I find that I have to open KMix and switch desktops for it to start working.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

X/ax

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From: Oost vlaanderen, Belgium

Registered: 2008-01-13

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Re: Sound problems

Try opening a terminal and running alsamixer
If there's any errors there, put them here...

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eth3real

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Registered: 2008-06-02

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Re: Sound problems

I just tried it, and I don't see any errors. I have tried that already, since I remembered doing it before the setup of kde.

X/ax

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From: Oost vlaanderen, Belgium

Registered: 2008-01-13

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Re: Sound problems

Have you already done the alsactl store thing (maybe on both users?)
Do you know for sure that on both users the sound is setup right?
// If it's neither of those things, I'm out of my league... The only thing I can think of is that the sound might be started for one user, but not for another, which is even more absurd once I wrote it down...

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eth3real

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Registered: 2008-06-02

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Re: Sound problems

I'm not sure I know about the alsactl store thing.
I'm really not sure if the sound is setup right for both users... My account was the first one created, and the other one came later. It was probably a few days after that when I realized the sound wasn't working correctly anymore.

Redroar

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 200

Re: Sound problems

Open up alsamixer, set the channels the way you want them, and make sure you have sound. Then run

alsactl store

as root, and put alsa in your DAEMONS line in /etc/rc.conf. This is my first guess.

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ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

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Re: Sound problems

This is the way I always do it and so far always works

0. make sure you add yourself to the audio group
1. insall alsa (pacman -S alsa-lib alsa-oss alsa-utils alsaplayer gstreamer0.10-alsa alsa-plugins )
2. run "alsaconf" to detect and configure your audio card.
3. at a console type: alsamixer -->  use it to adjust volume (to start make everything at lest 60%)
4. aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav  --> Test that sound works
5. issue "alsactl store"  --> Save Settings (as root)
6. add alsa to the daemons line (/etc/rc.conf)

Hope this helps.

R.

Shadowmeph

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From: West Coast Canada

Registered: 2008-05-19

Posts: 208

Re: Sound problems

I hate to say this but you might have to do what I did to get my sound card working and that is install and use OSS4
but I would try everyone elses suggestion before you do mine becauseI had a bit of a time because I am new to Linux especially Arch so it took me a while to make /compile my own drivers but in the end my sound card works great. if you cannot find answers here for your sound problems ( like what happened to me) then go to the 4front technologises site and ask in the linux section I got all my help from them http://www.4front-tech.com