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gellb

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Registered: 2008-09-28

Posts: 5

activate intel (motherboard) sound card unsuccessful

Hi,
I've just installed Arch on my PC. It's cool. My only problem is at the moment that I could'nt activate my sound card. I tried to follow the steps of alsa wiki but no success. Any help is appritiated.  Outputs:

bash-3.2# lsmod|grep '^snd'
snd_seq_oss            31872  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      8192  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                49968  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          8332  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_intel         357048  2 
snd_hwdep               8964  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss            40192  0 
snd_pcm                69636  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              21384  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          9608  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          16512  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    50724  13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss

 ls -l /dev/snd/
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  9 2008-09-28 17:01 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  8 2008-09-28 17:01 hwC0D0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  7 2008-09-28 17:01 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  6 2008-09-28 17:14 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  5 2008-09-28 17:01 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  4 2008-09-28 17:01 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  3 2008-09-28 17:01 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 10 2008-09-28 17:01 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  2 2008-09-28 17:01 timer

Any idea?

gellb

obsrv

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Registered: 2005-02-08

Posts: 137

Re: activate intel (motherboard) sound card unsuccessful

alsaconf? then alsamixer, and alsactl store

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lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: activate intel (motherboard) sound card unsuccessful

Last but not least ....alsactl restore.............

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gellb

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Registered: 2008-09-28

Posts: 5

Re: activate intel (motherboard) sound card unsuccessful

Thanks Alsaconf was the solution!