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glitch

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Registered: 2011-12-11

Posts: 9

No sound on new install

Hi all

I've just moved to Arch from Fedora and so far I'm enjoying it.

However, I am having a problem getting sound to work.  I have searched the internet for a couple of days trying various solutions but nothing seems to work, I think I might be missing something.

The ouput from alsamixer shows all the levels on both onboard sound and my sound card to be at full.

Here are some other command outputs to see if anyone can see something I missing.

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 0: ctxfi [Front/WaveIn]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 1: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 1: ctxfi [Surround]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 1: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 2: ctxfi [Center/LFE]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 1: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 3: ctxfi [Side]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 1: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 4: ctxfi [IEC958 Non-audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

lspci|grep udio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
09:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB X-Fi

If there is anything else that could help just let me know.

Thank you in advance for your help.

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tommis

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Registered: 2011-09-13

Posts: 7

Re: No sound on new install

Have you added your user to audio group?

glitch

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Registered: 2011-12-11

Posts: 9

Re: No sound on new install

Yeah I did that when creating the user account.

$ groups
lp wheel games video audio optical storage scanner power users

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lifeafter2am

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Registered: 2009-06-10

Posts: 1,332

Re: No sound on new install

Any errors in dmesg about the driver / card?

What are you using to test the audio? Have you tried the very simple 'speakertest' command?

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jakobcreutzfeldt

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Registered: 2011-05-12

Posts: 1,042

Re: No sound on new install

You said the volume was up for each channel in alsamixer, but are any of the relevant channels muted by any chance? You can still adjust the volume control while it's muted, so it's easy to miss the "MM" under the channel. Just hit 'M' to unmute it. If that's not the case, check if you need to switch which audio interface is under control of alsamixer (particularly if you're using Pulseaudio; I have to do this on one of my PCs).

glitch

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Registered: 2011-12-11

Posts: 9

Re: No sound on new install

Any errors in dmesg about the driver / card?

What are you using to test the audio? Have you tried the very simple 'speakertest' command?

I've trawled through dmesg and I can't see any errors.  Using the speaker-test command didn't produce any results.  It went through the process but still no sound.

You said the volume was up for each channel in alsamixer, but are any of the relevant channels muted by any chance? You can still adjust the volume control while it's muted, so it's easy to miss the "MM" under the channel. Just hit 'M' to unmute it. If that's not the case, check if you need to switch which audio interface is under control of alsamixer (particularly if you're using Pulseaudio; I have to do this on one of my PCs).

None of the channels on alsamixer are muted, they all show │OO│

If that's not the case, check if you need to switch which audio interface is under control of alsamixer (particularly if you're using Pulseaudio; I have to do this on one of my PCs).

Where do I check which interface is under control of alsamixer?

Cheers for the help guys.

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jakobcreutzfeldt

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Registered: 2011-05-12

Posts: 1,042

Re: No sound on new install

None of the channels on alsamixer are muted, they all show │OO│

Sorry, always best to cover the obvious first

Where do I check which interface is under control of alsamixer?

I think I worded that poorly. Anyway, on my other computer I have to hit F6 to select the sound card. This is specificaly because, on that computer at least, alsamixer defaults to showing the controls for Pulseaudio. I have to switch to showing the controls of the hardware device to unmute some channels over there. If you don't have Pulseaudio installed, this probably won't be the problem....again, just getting the easy stuff out of the way

Last edited by jakobcreutzfeldt (2011-12-11 16:37:23)

glitch

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Registered: 2011-12-11

Posts: 9

Re: No sound on new install

on my other computer I have to hit F6 to select the sound card.

Yeah I checked that as well, cheers though.

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glitch

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Registered: 2011-12-11

Posts: 9

Re: No sound on new install

Anyone else got any ideas?  I'm totally stumped and I really don't want to reinstall the whole system

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