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rfaamada

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Registered: 2013-09-19

Posts: 9

[SOLVED] Sound not working

Alright so it's actually not that long ago that I was having trouble connecting to the internet during my arch installation but thankfully someone here helped me out and I was able to install arch(I'm even on the same machine typing this right now!). So I got X and dwm going and then I installed "moc" (to listen to my music) and when I started it up it gave me this :

$ mocp
Can't load plugin libaac_decoder: file not found
Can't load plugin libffmpeg_decoder: file not found
Can't load plugin libmodplug_decoder: file not found
Can't load plugin libmusepack_decoder: file not found
Can't load plugin libspeex_decoder: file not found
Can't load plugin libwavpack_decoder: file not found
Running the server...
Trying JACK...
Trying ALSA...
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Trying OSS...

FATAL_ERROR: No valid sound driver!


FATAL_ERROR: Server exited!

Then I went to youtube and video played fine but there was no audio. So audio as far as I know does not work at all so far.

I have alsa-utils installed and can open up alsamixer but I have to press f6 and select another option to get any volume adjusting bar things.
Then I did :

$ amixer sset Master unmute
amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Master',0

I do :

$ speaker-test -c 2

speaker-test 1.0.27.2

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory

I don't know what else to do here... I got all that from the alsa archwiki page.
Any help would be very much appreciated as I really need to be able to have audio on this machine. Thanks!

Last edited by rfaamada (2013-09-21 17:22:19)

jv2112

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Registered: 2011-07-23

Posts: 160

Re: [SOLVED] Sound not working

Have you installed the needed codecs ? Gstreamer ,ffmpeg ......

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Sound not working

While moc has a few optional dependence that clearly have not been installed, it shouldn't just crash w/o them - they're optional.
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/moc/

OP, please search around for threads with the same issues, e.g. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1259700

Last edited by karol (2013-09-21 11:30:52)

rfaamada

Member

Registered: 2013-09-19

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] Sound not working

While moc has a few optional dependence that clearly have not been installed, it shouldn't just crash w/o them - they're optional.
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/moc/

OP, please search around for threads with the same issues, e.g. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1259700

Oh thanks, installing pulseaudio worked. Guess I didn't think to look around and see if anyone else had this issue... I feel like a silly.
Thanks once again!