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wilsonsamm

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Registered: 2011-05-06

Posts: 18

Alsa won't cooperate

As you can see my kernel modules were correctly loaded at boot time:

 $ lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

 $ cat /proc/asound/modules
 0 snd_hda_intel

But if I try to set things up, alsamixer complains about not being able to connect to some PulseAudio thing:

 $ alsamixer 
ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

cannot open mixer: Connection refused

If I try to play some sound back, I get this:

 $ speaker-test -c 2

speaker-test 1.0.24.2

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

Playback open error: -111,Connection refused

Can someone explain to me what's missing here? I didn't see any relevant reference to pulseaudio on the wiki...

ConnorBehan

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Registered: 2007-07-05

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Re: Alsa won't cooperate

By setting things up, do you mean going straight to alsamixer after the modules are loaded? I would run "alsaconf" first. If the problem continues (and you don't want to start a pulseaudio server like it's trying to get you to do), try removing references to pulse in /etc/asound.conf.

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wilsonsamm

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Registered: 2011-05-06

Posts: 18

Re: Alsa won't cooperate

Alsaconf does not find my card. It complains that it can't find any PCI or PnP cards on my system, even though I have the snd-hda-intel card which is PCI. So I don't bother searching for ISA cards because I know that's not for me (the list came up with various soundblasters and stuff like that.)

Starting the PulseAudio doodad gives me the following error:

 $ pulseaudio --start
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Alsa won't cooperate

alsaconf is useless. Arch should follow Debian and just remove it, to stop people from thinking that it's useful.