Alsa Sound Not Working (SOLVED)

paulb787 · 2012-05-31 07:30:21

i have a crazy story! I had alsa up and running with the following steps (below) and everything was fine about 3 days later i restored my system with acronis back before i had alsa configured. i can no langer get it to work! i have spent all day and am stumped. it worked when i configured everything the first time.

What Ive Done (KDE)

pacman -S alsa-utils alsa-oss

aplay -l

card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH6]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH6 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

2. alsamixer "unmuted everything"

3. added alsa to rc.conf after dbus

4. configred /etc/asound.conf

defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.ctl.card 1"

5. tested sound in phonon kde control

6. NO LUCK

ls -l /dev/snd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 May 31 02:56 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 12 May 31 02:56 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 May 31 02:56 controlC1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 11 May 31 02:56 hwC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 May 31 02:56 pcmC0D3p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 May 31 02:56 pcmC0D7p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 May 31 02:59 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 May 31 03:12 pcmC1D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 May 31 02:56 pcmC1D1c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 May 31 02:56 pcmC1D2c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 May 31 02:56 pcmC1D3c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 May 31 03:11 pcmC1D4p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 May 31 02:56 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 May 31 02:56 timer

lsmod | grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 21760 1
snd_intel8x0 22672 4
snd_hda_intel 20112 2
snd_hda_codec 79405 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
snd_ac97_codec 89900 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 60499 6 snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_intel8x0,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
snd_hwdep 4970 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_page_alloc 5901 3 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel,snd_intel8x0
snd_timer 15158 2 snd_pcm
snd 45013 18 snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_intel8x0,snd_hda_codec_hdmi

i have windows in a dual boot and it is working fine.

I trully appreciate the help

THANK YOU
PAUL

Last edited by paulb787 (2012-05-31 10:15:09)

jasonwryan · 2012-05-31 07:34:57

Please read the Forum Etiquette on How To Post and edit your post and title to follow these guidelines.

Have you tried {moving,renaming} /etc/asound.conf?

paulb787 · 2012-05-31 07:56:01

i apologize. Yes i have tried moving /etc/asound.conf with no luck.

Thanks,
Paul

EDIT:

I fixed the issue 24 hrs later however. After trying everything and realizing that udev had everything loaded right (all modules were up and my sound card was reconized) i went back into alsa mixer and played around. Headphones in alsamixer was something i unmuted. After muteing headphones amazingly the sound started to work. I hope this will help someone else because its very hard to pin-point. In the Arch alsa guide it says to launch alsamixer and unmute master and pcm levels. I however unmuted pratucally everything not thinking.

Thank you

Last edited by paulb787 (2012-05-31 10:21:22)

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Alsa Sound Not Working (SOLVED)

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Re: Alsa Sound Not Working (SOLVED)

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Re: Alsa Sound Not Working (SOLVED)

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