No audio after reboot last night [SDL breaking something?]

Squiddles · 2012-09-18 00:12:34

speaker-test -c 2 reports:

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory

My ~/.asoundrc and /etc/asound.conf are empty.

aplay -l:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

and the loaded modules are:

snd_hda_codec_hdmi     23704  1
snd_hda_codec_realtek  59152  1
snd_hda_intel          25700  0
snd_hda_codec          97432  3   snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_usb_audio          99694  0
snd_usbmidi_lib        18744  1   snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            18479  1   snd_usbmidi_lib
snd_seq_device         5300   1   snd_rawmidi
snd_hwdep              6300   2   snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                74926  4   snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc         7217   2   snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer              18966  1   snd_pcm
snd                    60021  11  snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_usb_audio,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device

Any ideas? The only thing that looks remotely related is sdl since that got updated yesterday.

Last edited by Squiddles (2012-09-18 17:40:00)

nixIT · 2012-09-18 00:36:44

I was just about to enter a question in the forum, when I found this, and i don't want to hijack the thread, just adding my $.02.

I have the same issue, no sound in games or youtube after a update/reboot. My system is reporting my default sound as Pulseaudio and default card as PulseAudio. not sure what happened.

Last edited by nixIT (2012-09-18 00:37:22)

Squiddles · 2012-09-18 00:58:13

I decided to do a quick test and downgraded SDL from 1.2.15-3 to 1.2.15-2 and all audio started working again. Apparently some things broke. Also, should have mentioned this in the OP, I'm using ALSA.

Now I'm not sure how to label this thread. It is technically solved, but sdl will still want to update next time I run pacman. Any way around this besides perpetually ignoring sdl?

nixIT · 2012-09-18 02:51:58

sweet, unfortunately, a downgrade did not work for me.

--nixIT

Squiddles · 2012-09-18 06:51:04

Did you reboot or restart ALSA? I'm sure restarting ALSA would work, but I just rebooted the whole computer. I'd also look through the pacman log to see if there's anything that would effect audio, that's how I came upon SDL.

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#1 2012-09-18 00:12:34

No audio after reboot last night [SDL breaking something?]

#2 2012-09-18 00:36:44

Re: No audio after reboot last night [SDL breaking something?]

#3 2012-09-18 00:58:13

Re: No audio after reboot last night [SDL breaking something?]

#4 2012-09-18 02:51:58

Re: No audio after reboot last night [SDL breaking something?]

#5 2012-09-18 06:51:04

Re: No audio after reboot last night [SDL breaking something?]

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