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des

Member

Registered: 2009-12-30

Posts: 2

ALSA: no device found

Hello @ all,

first: sorry for my bad english, but i am trying very hard. ;-)

I'm new to Arch, switched from Kubuntu/Fedora. I have installed Arch x86_64 with KDE. Now i am trying to configure ALSA without success untill now.

I followed the ALSA-Wiki, so it should work normally. Also i have executed alsaconf and it apparently have correnctly found and configured my VIA8237-onboard-sound chip. But when i try to paly a WAV-file in the terminal, it say's

ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1433:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card

and that it does not find any sound device.

Also KDE says that the VIA-sound chip does not work and it swiches to "default" instead.

My user is already in the group audio. I don't know, what informations do you need to help me, so if you want anything to now, please let me know, so i can hand in it later.

Thanks for any help!

jolinfire

Member

From: France

Registered: 2007-12-21

Posts: 176

Re: ALSA: no device found

Erh... Did you activate alsa daemon in your daemons line in /etc/rc.conf ?

Sirsurthur

Member

Registered: 2009-02-02

Posts: 124

Re: ALSA: no device found

Hello everybody,

I also have a VIA8237 and am experiencing trouble since update to kernel 2.6.32.

During boot I get that line : Unknow hardware VIA-8237

I already tried alsaconf / alsactl store but it did not solve the issue.

Thanks for any tips.

Sirsurthur

des

Member

Registered: 2009-12-30

Posts: 2

Re: ALSA: no device found

Erh... Did you activate alsa daemon in your daemons line in /etc/rc.conf ?

Yes, alsa is in my deamons line. I also had snd-via82xx and snd-pcm-oss both and alone in the line without any results.