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cabrey

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 29

[solved] Trouble with sound...

Hi guys,

I'm a n00b at Arch (obviously) and can't for the life of my figure out how to get sound working. I have a vanilla install with KDE 4.3, so I need ALSA working so Phonon will be happy. I know my card is supported and works, the problem is getting it setup. This is on a Eee PC netbook model no. 900HA. To the best of my knowledge, the built in sound card uses the snd-hda-intel driver, but here is the lspci output for you guys to check in case I'm wrong:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

Thanks,

Craig

PS: Yes, I did consult the ALSA wiki page, but that didn't do anything to help me.

Any help much appreciated!

Last edited by cabrey (2009-08-15 03:13:03)

Acecero

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Registered: 2008-06-21

Posts: 1,373

Re: [solved] Trouble with sound...

Hmm... did you add your user to the audio group and unmute all channels using amixer or alsamixer?

Btw, welcome to the forums!

cabrey

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 29

Re: [solved] Trouble with sound...

Wow, I am stuuuupid. That did it (after logging out and back in, of course)! Thanks.

Oh, another small problem. I use kdm and the inittab is set to runlevel 5. After I log out, I am dropped to a tty instead of kdm, even though kdm is still 'running' (ps aux | grep kdm). Anyway to fix that?

Acecero

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Registered: 2008-06-21

Posts: 1,373

Re: [solved] Trouble with sound...

Can I see what you have in your inittab?

Also if I had to ask, can you please remove the "i'm stupid" from the tag? We all make mistakes.

cabrey

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 29

Re: [solved] Trouble with sound...

Heh, ok

Here's my inittab:

#                                   
# /etc/inittab                      
#                                   

#  Runlevels:
#    0    Halt
#    1(S)       Single-user
#    2    Not used         
#    3    Multi-user       
#    4    Not used         
#    5    X11              
#    6    Reboot           

## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!
# Boot to console                                         
#id:3:initdefault:                                        
# Boot to X11                                             
id:5:initdefault:                                         

rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single  
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p

# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty2 linux
#c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty3 linux
#c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty4 linux
#c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty5 linux
#c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty6 linux

ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# Example lines for starting a login manager
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null

# End of file

Acecero

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Registered: 2008-06-21

Posts: 1,373

Re: [solved] Trouble with sound...

It looks fine to me, but I can only suggest you do these options. Either uncomment the last 4 ttys, reboot and see what happens or try a different Display Manager, because I think with the new KDE packages, there might be some bugs to work out at the moment.

cabrey

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 29

Re: [solved] Trouble with sound...

Well enabling those extra ttys didn't seem to help, so I'll just deal with it for now.

Many thanks for the help,

Craig