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feminaexlux

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From: /home/lani

Registered: 2008-08-28

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[Solved] No Sound, No *ALSA*. Whatsoever. Confused.

Hi there, I have a more unique ALSA problem. At least, I searched through the forums and didn't see something like my problem. Which is:

I have no ALSA. Whatsoever. I have no idea how that happened. I do have a sound card.

Well, okay, I'm running Arch on a virtual machine with an emulated soundcard. Virtualbox, sound enabled (Emulating ICH AC97), Host (Debian Lenny)'s ALSA works fine, I'm streaming ETN.fm through Sonata right this moment, with the occasional message chimes coming in from Pidgin.

I installed Arch just fine through the latest Core CD. I've also upgraded the system successfully. I've installed alsa-lib, alsa-util, and alsa-oss. But there's no alsamixer, no alsaconf, no alsa* anything. No clue what's going on! Am I supposed to install Alsa from source now?

Or is there any way I can tell Arch "Hay, you forgot ALSA. Plz get it now"?

Thanks for any info.
Lux

Last edited by feminaexlux (2008-08-28 17:06:19)

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,604

Re: [Solved] No Sound, No *ALSA*. Whatsoever. Confused.

Does "no alsamixer" mean "command not found" when you try to run it? If you get error response, post it. If you get no response, double check that the package is installed, and that /usr/bin/alsamixer exists.

lord darkpat

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Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 19

Re: [Solved] No Sound, No *ALSA*. Whatsoever. Confused.

in terminal, run alsaconfig as root

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 1,872

Re: [Solved] No Sound, No *ALSA*. Whatsoever. Confused.

There is no 'alsaconfig' command, and if you meant 'alsaconf', you shouldn't run that either. It's only useful for old ISA cards and usually leads to problems with cards that get autodetected by the kernel.

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lord darkpat

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Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 19

Re: [Solved] No Sound, No *ALSA*. Whatsoever. Confused.

sorry, I did mean alsaconf
Mine started working when I ran alsaconf, it's worth a try

filou.linux

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From: Zurich

Registered: 2008-04-17

Posts: 87

Re: [Solved] No Sound, No *ALSA*. Whatsoever. Confused.

Are those packages really installed or has the installation been interrupted (probably without you recognizing it). You could just try to reinstall them (pacman -S alsa-...). Thats what I'd try first. hope this helps.

feminaexlux

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From: /home/lani

Registered: 2008-08-28

Posts: 24

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Re: [Solved] No Sound, No *ALSA*. Whatsoever. Confused.

Wow, thanks filou. I just reinstalled it after issuing a sync and update and it worked. I was pretty sure that's what I did first after not finding alsamixer at all, but for some reason this time it actually went through. I think pacman just managed to download the file without installing it?

Thanks for the help, all. Sorry for this dumb question

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Registered: 2008-02-24

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Re: [Solved] No Sound, No *ALSA*. Whatsoever. Confused.

Thanks for the help, all. Sorry for this dumb question

There are no dumb questions.

Except if you don't search first. Then it becomes a dumb question because it's already been answered several time. How's that for a mantra?

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