No audio

martriay · 2012-06-21 01:31:55

Hello, im new in here, as i am at arch. First of all, you'll have to excuseme because im really bad speaking english.
The problem is that my sound system isn't working. I tried asking at the irc channel (english and spanish) but no one could helpe, so here i am.

I installed archlinux a week ago, netinstall, on my desktop. There is no sound except the input from my mic (i can hear myself talking, you know?), i tryed blacklisting snd_intel8x0m but didn't work. Any ideas?

Here is my aplay -l output:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: VT1708B 8-Ch Analog [VT1708B 8-Ch Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: VT1708B 8-Ch Digital [VT1708B 8-Ch Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 2: VT1708B 8-Ch HP [VT1708B 8-Ch HP]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

ngoonee · 2012-06-21 01:49:06

Have you read the wiki pages related to audio? Please specify whether you're using plain alsa or pulseaudio.

martriay · 2012-06-21 01:59:48

Yes, i read them (from there i took the blacklist idea).
Im using alsa, but i also instaled pulseaudio following someones from the irc idea. (i did nothing more than install it, anyway)

ngoonee · 2012-06-21 05:11:22

martriay wrote:

Yes, i read them (from there i took the blacklist idea).
Im using alsa, but i also instaled pulseaudio following someones from the irc idea. (i did nothing more than install it, anyway)

If you can't get audio with Alsa, pulseaudio won't solve it. What's your DE etc.?

martriay · 2012-06-21 18:13:48

Don't know, i was following instructions.
I dont know what do you mean by etc, but im using awesome (WM)

ConnorBehan · 2012-06-21 20:00:52

etc = Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera!. Sorry it means "and so on".

If the sound in your mic is working, that probably means there are just certain channels muted. I would run "alsamixer", play with the channels, press F5 to see all of them and press M to mute / unmute them.

martriay · 2012-06-21 20:48:28

They all were unmuted and at max volume

jasonwryan · 2012-06-21 20:51:38

Please paste the output of amixer (in code tags).

martriay · 2012-06-21 23:45:42

Simple mixer control 'Master',0                                                                                                                                      
  2   Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  3   Playback channels: Mono
  4   Limits: Playback 0 - 27
  5   Mono: Playback 10 [37%] [2.50dB] [on]
  6 Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  7   Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  8   Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  9   Limits: Playback 0 - 27
 10   Mono:
 11   Front Left: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
 12   Front Right: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
 13 Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
 14   Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
 15   Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
 16   Limits: Playback 0 - 31
 17   Mono:
 18   Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [14.00dB] [on]
 19   Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [14.00dB] [on]
 20 Simple mixer control 'Front',0
 21   Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
 22   Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
 23   Limits: Playback 0 - 27
 24   Mono:
 25   Front Left: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
 26   Front Right: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
 27 Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0
 28   Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
 29   Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
 30   Limits: Playback 0 - 31
 31   Mono:
 32   Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [14.00dB] [on]
 33   Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [14.00dB] [on]
 34 Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
 35   Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
 36   Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
 37   Limits: Playback 0 - 27
 38   Mono:
 39   Front Left: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
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martriay · 2012-06-23 19:30:44

So? any help?

Khor · 2012-06-26 14:31:53

Are you sure its AUDIO at all? I had the same problem. solved installing gstreamer0.10-plugins to play music!

martriay · 2012-06-26 19:39:49

speaker test doesnt work, but the mic does
im really lost in here

im not at home, i'll try it when i arrive

Khor · 2012-06-26 23:19:05

I'm not sure, but try youtube. I think the codecs dont apply to flash movies

ConnorBehan · 2012-06-27 00:02:29

Gstreamer codecs don't apply because Flash doesn't link to gstreamer. It comes with its own codecs for h.264 and sorrenson spark. But if the speaker test doesn't work, I don't think Flash will be able to produce sound either.

martriay · 2012-06-27 00:47:09

Khor wrote:

Are you sure its AUDIO at all? I had the same problem. solved installing gstreamer0.10-plugins to play music!

Didn't work either

martriay · 2012-06-27 04:22:33

Through a live CD, I started widh ubuntu, the sound didnt work eihter so I tried in another input (i have three pairs, it was in the same one that always worked) and then started to work properly.

It sounds dumb, but i tried it before in arch and nothing, after this i tried again and nothing, im still stucked (i tried all again, blacklist idontknowwhat for onboard intel chips, etc).

slenkar · 2012-06-28 17:58:21

try running pulseaudio in the terminal does it fail?

when I try to run it , it asks to be run with the --system option

martriay · 2012-06-28 20:06:12

[martin@vasudeva ~]$ pulseaudio
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

slenkar · 2012-07-01 17:47:35

look in etc/rc.conf and put the word alsa in the daemons list

Last edited by slenkar (2012-07-01 17:47:47)

martriay · 2012-07-02 18:27:54

It was already

slenkar · 2012-07-03 16:03:03

here is an article that suggests replacing pulseaudio with ALSA
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/03/how-to-s … ad-of.html

so if you have both running, maybe they are causing a conflict?

Also did you add your username to the audio group?

# gpasswd -a yourusername audio

Also restart the PC after doing all this

Last edited by slenkar (2012-07-03 23:54:12)

martriay · 2012-07-06 00:06:29

I had alsa before pulseaudio and didnt worked either
this user also belong to the audio group

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