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fhr

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[Solved] Archlinux under virtualbox : no sound

Hi,

I'm trying to use Archlinux as a Virtualbox guest (the host is Win XP): I've followed the beginner's guide and the install went quite fine but I can't manage to get sound: alsa is installed, Virtualbox sound card (ICH) is recognized, and if I play a sample sound with aplay -vv, I can see that everything goes well, but there's just no sound. I tried lots of settings with alsamixer (muting/unmuting "aux" stuff, etc.), but nothing

Any idea ? Thx in advance !

NB: it worked with other distros (automated configuration though), so it doesn't seem to come from my host or virtualbox.

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Solved with alsaconf

Last edited by fhr (2009-07-02 17:12:36)

R00KIE

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Re: [Solved] Archlinux under virtualbox : no sound

Did you read this http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALS … s_and_test

Edit:
I mean testing as root and making sure your user is in the audio group.

Last edited by R00KIE (2009-07-02 09:44:47)

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fhr

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Re: [Solved] Archlinux under virtualbox : no sound

Yes my user is in "audio", and I tried with root too. I didn't try alsaconf, but I will

arkham

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Re: [Solved] Archlinux under virtualbox : no sound

Unmute every channel, adjust their levels at 80% and try aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

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fhr

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Re: [Solved] Archlinux under virtualbox : no sound

Unmute every channel, adjust their levels at 80% and try aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

That's what I did (cf first post) : aplay plays the sound without problem (with -v or -vv I can see that everything is ok) but no sound comes from my speakers (yes, they're on )

fhr

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Re: [Solved] Archlinux under virtualbox : no sound

Problem fixed with alsaconf; it's nice but a bit frustrating since I don't know what was wrong... The beginner's guide doesn't mention to run alsaconf, so I don't know what I'd missed

arkham

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Re: [Solved] Archlinux under virtualbox : no sound

Probably you should have run alsactl store as root

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fhr

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Re: [Solved] Archlinux under virtualbox : no sound

Probably you should have run alsactl store as root

I did...