[solved] Sound stoped working after switching from OSS to ALSA

Nemis · 2011-12-07 20:57:03

So after playing with Gnome Shell and KDE with it's phonon, even installing oss
that had disabled Alsa, I'm going back to XFCE but without the sound at all.

I have removed OSS, alsa modules are back now.
pavucontrol shows that there is a input, bars with volume are "dancing" and it shows
application name ie. amarok/chrome - but speakers are silent.

Could you arch community help me please? I dont want to reinstalling entire system
after hours of configuration... :-(

Last edited by Nemis (2011-12-08 14:01:48)

desaparecido · 2011-12-07 21:41:29

you not need re-install your entire system, but read the archwiki about alsa et pulse could be good
without more information is really difficult the help you (or try). If you read the wiki is important to know about if the hardware is recognized, wich module kernel is loaded, etc etc.

some commands can help you to know all this information, like lsmod, lspci, and others. and then will be easier to help you.

Last edited by desaparecido (2011-12-07 21:42:39)

Nemis · 2011-12-07 21:57:56

Exctacly, i get trough the wiki, i read about Alsa, Pulse, modules.
There are two sounds cards from lspci and that worked fine until I had started to test OSS and others window managers.

lsmod shows correct module loaded, this is my sound card (audigy):
snd_ca0106 29199 3

desaparecido · 2011-12-07 22:51:35

ok, but you say that you have 2 sound cards, and you write only about one. You can post the output of lspci and lsmod (and lsusb if you have usb-card like some soundblaster midi cards) commands (the sound cards references lines only) to take all information? and another thing, If I understand correctly you had installed alsa and pulse, but you changed to OSS so probably you modified some configuration files.. so.. when you re-installed alsa/pulse, did you change to original configuration these files? and.. are you sure that there's not conflict between 2 sound cards? I you did follow the wiki procedure when you re-installed alsa/pulse you can disable each sound card at time in your bios and test it if all is ok, in this way we can isolate the problem.

iode1 · 2011-12-07 22:56:34

F6 to select sound card?

The problem for me had been the package gnome-alsamixer, are you sure that also has been removed?

desaparecido · 2011-12-07 23:23:48

is really important that all wiki process of alsa installation was verified. for XFCE you have this pkg extra/xfce4-mixer 4.8.0-1, so gnome-alsamixer is not necessary four you. Do you still have pulseaudio? if you have pulse too, usually with alsamixer you have Card and Chip like PULSEAUDIO. if you have only alsa you have your sound cards and F6 to select. If you aren't sure about your alsa install process, In my experience, is better to re-start from zero with your wiki (uninstall pulse and OSS stuffs), make all indicated audio test and then we are sure. good luck and if we continue don't forget the outputs of commands

Last edited by desaparecido (2011-12-07 23:31:32)

Nemis · 2011-12-08 14:00:22

The problem is solved now.
I reainstalled alsa-pulse package which affected my /etc/asound.conf with default configuration dedicated to connecting
alsa with pulse. That was the one thing. The second thing - I reainstalled a gstreamer library but I don't know if it
is related to this.
Now all sound is working, even html5 video player on youtube.

PS. I will neve go try another WM, XFCE is just perfect ;-)

Last edited by Nemis (2011-12-08 14:00:36)

desaparecido · 2011-12-08 14:06:43

good for you !! gstreamer is needed to play some audio formats but i think that you had (probably) many small things. But now, all works fine so even if you want another desktop manager or window manager all would be fine. I use KDE with phonon and pulse/alsa installed, and i use Awesome WM and works smooth, without special config, even in console mode I have my pulseaudio server ok and play music and videos.. ciao men..

Nemis · 2011-12-08 14:12:35

[offtopic]
KDE is too bugy for me and too slow. After starting system I ussualy had to switch between xrenderer/opengl to start effects working,
otherwise transparency and all stuff was creating some strang rendered things on screen. I am web developer so I need to fast
switch between applications and work on huge RAM eater like eclipse, so XFCE rocks for me. The only thing is KDE software - they
have even kdenlive to edit videos, so it is like a free MacOS ;-)
Cheers mate.

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#1 2011-12-07 20:57:03

[solved] Sound stoped working after switching from OSS to ALSA

#2 2011-12-07 21:41:29

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