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Prefanatic

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 1

Sound suddenly stopped working after reboot

I just got KDEmod installed and working.  Sound was working in it before I rebooted, to get ntfs-3g and hal working so I could mount my Win7 partition.  When I got back into KDE, I was notified that "The audio playback device *** does not work. Falling back to ."  I googled around all day, but couldn't find the cure for this.  Before the reboot, I installed hal and dbus through pacman, and added them to my DAEMONS=

I'm thinking it has something to do with hal or dbus somehow, is there anyway I can undo what I did?  Or is there anyone else who had/is having this problem that could help?

etereo

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Registered: 2009-03-23

Posts: 33

Re: Sound suddenly stopped working after reboot

did you add your audio to your user group if you didnt type this in and then reboot

gpasswd -a username audio

Last edited by etereo (2009-08-25 21:02:51)

evr

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: Sound suddenly stopped working after reboot

are you using alsa, oss, pulseaudio, etc?

vpoinot

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Registered: 2009-04-09

Posts: 19

Re: Sound suddenly stopped working after reboot

Same issue here after upgrading from KDE 4.2 to KDE 4.3.
Whenever a system sound has to be played, I have this notification:
"The audio playback device does not work Intel ICH6 with STAC9750,51 (Intel ICH6). Falling back to default."
Then it does fall back to default device and correctly plays the sound.

However, when I run JuK, after displaying this same notification, I have no sound, or rather, I rarely have sound (sometimes it takes a couple of seconds to start to play, more often it does not start at all).

I don't know if it's related, but video stopped working as well after migrating to KDE 4.3: Dragon Player just hangs when I try to open a video file ?

And yes, my user belongs to audio group, and video...

sHyLoCk

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Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: Sound suddenly stopped working after reboot

"The audio playback device does not work Intel ICH6 with STAC9750,51 (Intel ICH6). Falling back to default."

Uninstall pulseaduio and reboot.

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vpoinot

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Registered: 2009-04-09

Posts: 19

Re: Sound suddenly stopped working after reboot

No pulseaudio installed here...
I finally installed the xine backend for Phonon, and it works (instead of gstreamer).
Go figure...

Last edited by vpoinot (2009-09-03 12:13:10)