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Deinumite

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-12-10

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Issues with ALSA [Solved]

Hey, im somewhat new to Arch, but im not totally new at Linux hah, i've finished getting everything else up to snuff, and so far im loving it, its alot faster than any distro(s) ive tried, but im having issues with the ALSA playback.....using the wiki, i was able to get it to play the test audio file, but Gnomes audio thing was having issues with it.....after a restart however, i started to get an error when trying to run alsamixer from the command line, the wiki says to reinstall the kernel, which i did, but i still cannot get it to work.

output for lsmod|grep '^snd'

snd_seq_oss            35584  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      9344  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                58336  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          9364  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hwdep              10632  0 
snd_pcm_oss            45568  0 
snd_pcm                82440  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              24720  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         10640  1 snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          18944  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    64840  8 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss

output for ls -l /dev/snd/

total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 3 Dec  9 22:46 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 2 Dec  9 22:46 timer

Now that i look at it, all the things that were listed BEFORE are now gone....i've also tried reinstalling alsa but that hasn't helped either....im pretty stumped, any input would be great.

Last edited by Deinumite (2009-01-08 03:55:48)

steve_v

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Registered: 2006-02-11

Posts: 80

Re: Issues with ALSA [Solved]

I don't see any hardware drivers in that module list, try running 'alsaconf' and see what it's autodetect comes up with.
What does 'cat /proc/asound/cards' say?

Deinumite

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 6

Re: Issues with ALSA [Solved]

I don't see any hardware drivers in that module list, try running 'alsaconf' and see what it's autodetect comes up with.
What does 'cat /proc/asound/cards' say?

Yeah, it had references to snd_hda_intel before in it, but now that is gone for some reason...

alsaconf shows hda-intel, Intel Corproation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller

running cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundscards ---

which i find strange, considering alsaconf is telling me it configured my sound card :S

R00KIE

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Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: Issues with ALSA [Solved]

Maybe you can try load that module with sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel and check the output of dmesg if it doesn't load to try to figure out why.
If it loads fine then you can always add that module to the modules line in rc.conf.

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Deinumite

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 6

Re: Issues with ALSA [Solved]

Maybe you can try load that module with sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel and check the output of dmesg if it doesn't load to try to figure out why.
If it loads fine then you can always add that module to the modules line in rc.conf.

Okay using that showed me what was wrong, okay....this is alot better than before, now i can use alsamixer and it says the module is loaded etc... and the sound card shows up now which it didn't before, now i still don't have audio even though all my channels say they are unmuted...sweet i will check the wiki again thanks for your help so far!

Deinumite

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 6

Re: Issues with ALSA [Solved]

Sweet it is all working now thanks a lot for your help, im really impressed with Arch so far, its amazingly fast and now that everything is working i don't feel like switching distros again anytime soon, took me long enough to get this one working haha.

R00KIE

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Re: Issues with ALSA [Solved]

Glad to have helped, don't forget to edit your first post and add [Solved] to the topic

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