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hemant2007

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Registered: 2012-11-21

Posts: 8

rc.conf / no DAEMON section issue

Hi
I have followed following commands and installed alsamixer in arch linux
1. added folloing line
    options snd-pcsp index=2
2. pacman -S alsa-utils alsa-oss
3. alsamixer (it opens the channels)

and now I opened nano /etc/rc.conf
but there is no DAEMON section in it
so where should I write alsa in it ??????
that is there is nothing in rc.conf file ????

I am using virtualbox and arch linux is my guest linux
also
when I reboot and type alsamixer it gives me error that no such command
Do I need to install alsamixer everytime after reboot ??

mzneverdies

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Registered: 2012-02-04

Posts: 147

Re: rc.conf / no DAEMON section issue

Since arch moved to systemd, rc.conf is useless (actually i don't even have the file)

Daemons are now units/services, and are enabled via the "systemctl enable unit.service" command.

Don't know what do you want alsamixer for, and don't know how to enable it, but as said, if you are using a pure systemd arch, forget about rc.conf.

If your system is not pure systed, you can add the daemons line to rc.conf and it'll do the job.

bohoomil

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Registered: 2010-09-04

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Re: rc.conf / no DAEMON section issue

I guess reading a relevant Wiki article is a good idea...

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Antoine

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From: Picton Ontario

Registered: 2012-10-11

Posts: 90

Re: rc.conf / no DAEMON section issue

Daemons are now units/services, and are enabled via the "systemctl enable unit.service" command.

Not with alsa: it's a static service. See: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=146794

Don't know what do you want alsamixer for, and don't know how to enable it, but as said, if you are using a pure systemd arch, forget about rc.conf.

Man alsamixer. It's a cli/ncurses mixer program for audio devices. It comes with everything muted by default.