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gbj13

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

I have perfect sound with linux 3.13.6-1.  However if I update to linux-3.13.7-1 all sound dissapears altough the sound settings have not changed at all.  When I downgrade to 3.13.6-1 I get the sound back.  Does anyone else have this problem or any solutions/suggestions on how to fix this?  Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Inxsible

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Re: No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

Nothing in the log files ?

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karol

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Re: No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

Check the logs and systemd's journal. Remove 'quiet' from the kernel command line if you have it there.
Post what exactly is the issue, what happens if you start a music playing program from the terminal - any errors?

gbj13

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Re: No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

Nothing that I can find, and varius commands like speaker-test -c 2 run with no errors with the 7-1 kernel but simply with no sound.

karol

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Re: No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

I got

$ systemctl --failed
UNIT          LOAD   ACTIVE SUB    DESCRIPTION
acpid.service loaded failed failed ACPI event daemon

LOAD   = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
SUB    = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.

1 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.
To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.
$ systemctl status acpid
acpid.service - ACPI event daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/acpid.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: signal) since Tue 2014-03-25 14:05:06 CET; 3h 8min ago
  Process: 174 ExecStart=/usr/bin/acpid -f (code=killed, signal=KILL)
 Main PID: 174 (code=killed, signal=KILL)

but I'm not sure if it's related. Maybe I've just misconfigured my box.

gbj13

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Re: No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

I do not have any failed units.

karol

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Re: No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

I'm getting

[ao/alsa] Playback open error: Permission denied
[ao/oss] Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory

Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/1000/pulse): Permission denied

when trying to play but I've just updated my other box and it doesn't have any such issues, so I guess it's not related.

gbj13

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Re: No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

perhaps you have not added the user to the audio group?

karol

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Re: No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

perhaps you have not added the user to the audio group?

I shouldn't have to be in audio group, systemd may actually bite you if you do that.
Everything was working a couple hours ago, no configuration changes made.

Let's focus on your issue here.

gbj13

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Re: No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

Yes let's do that.  I should provide some details.

I have a Asus Xonar DG sound card.

Speaker test runs fine but with no sound

speaker-test 1.0.27.2

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 192 to 2097152
Period size range from 64 to 699051
Using max buffer size 2097152
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 524288
was set buffer_size = 2097152

aplay -l gives me

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 2: DG [Xonar DG], device 0: Multichannel [Multichannel]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: DG [Xonar DG], device 1: Digital [Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf has the following options

options snd slots=snd_mia,snd_hda_intel
options snd_mia index=0
options snd_hda_intel index=2

lsmod | grep '^snd' gives me the following

snd_oxygen             15971  2 
snd_oxygen_lib         29853  1 snd_oxygen
snd_mpu401_uart         5819  1 snd_oxygen_lib
snd_rawmidi            18742  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          5180  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm                77822  1 snd_oxygen_lib
snd_page_alloc          7298  1 snd_pcm
snd_timer              18718  1 snd_pcm
snd                    59029  11 snd_oxygen,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_oxygen_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_device

I am not sure what is wrong or what changed between these kernel versions?

karol

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Re: No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

Did you reboot after updating the kernel?
What's the output of

pacman -Q linux
uname -r

gbj13

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

Yes I have rebooted several times and changed headphones and gone over my lines/jacks.

pacman -Q linux gives 
linux 3.13.7-1

uname -r gives
3.13.7-1-ARCH

otakugeek

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Registered: 2014-03-26

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Re: No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

try install

sudo pacman -S alsa-utils alsa-plugins pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa

gbj13

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Re: No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

I have removed and re installed all my sound packages (alsa and pulseaudio), deleted configuration files and edited them.  Nothing but downgrading the kernel gives me sound.  I am out of ideas.

gbj13

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Re: No sound with kernel update 3.13.7-1

So I have been digging around the sound system and I finally found time to run alsa-info.sh from the alsa project.  I found that with the newest kernel I have errors that do not appear with the old kernel.  I am not sure however what they mean or what the fix should be.  Here is the output

!!ALSA/HDA dmesg
!!--------------

[   14.078901] systemd[1]: Accepted new private connection.
[   14.175923] systemd[1]: sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1c.6-0000:03:00.0-0000:04:01.0-sound-card2.device changed dead -> plugged
[   14.199479] systemd[1]: Trying to enqueue job sound.target/start/fail
[   14.210925] systemd[1]: Installed new job sound.target/start as 77
[   14.221838] systemd[1]: Enqueued job sound.target/start as 77
[   14.232299] systemd[1]: Failed to send unit change signal for sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1c.6-0000:03:00.0-0000:04:01.0-sound-card2.device: Transport endpoint is not connected
[   14.262520] systemd[1]: Failed to send unit change signal for sound.target: Transport endpoint is not connected
[   14.282303] systemd[1]: Failed to send job change signal for 77: Transport endpoint is not connected
--
[   14.348564] systemd[1]: Starting Sound Card.
[   14.357235] systemd[1]: sound.target changed dead -> active
[   14.365669] systemd[1]: Job sound.target/start finished, result=done
[   14.382375] systemd[1]: Reached target Sound Card.
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