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rafasa

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Registered: 2014-07-26

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Sound not working in Chrome

I installed arch linux yesterday but I did not manage to put the sound working.

I installed KDE and if I go to System Settings > Multimedia > Audio and Video Settings and I test the devices HDA Intel PCH the sound works. But if I play a video in Chrome or Chromium the sound doesn't work.

I added my username to audio group and with alsamixer I checked the channels aren't muted.

# ls -la /dev/snd/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root      260 Jul 26 11:46 .
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root     3080 Jul 26 11:46 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root       80 Jul 26 11:46 by-path
crw-rw----+  1 root audio 116,  8 Jul 26 11:46 controlC0
crw-rw----+  1 root audio 116,  2 Jul 26 11:46 controlC1
crw-rw----+  1 root audio 116,  9 Jul 26 11:46 hwC0D0
crw-rw----+  1 root audio 116,  7 Jul 26 11:46 hwC1D0
crw-rw----+  1 root audio 116,  4 Jul 26 11:52 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw----+  1 root audio 116,  3 Jul 26 11:53 pcmC1D0p
crw-rw----+  1 root audio 116,  5 Jul 26 11:46 pcmC1D1p
crw-rw----+  1 root audio 116,  6 Jul 26 11:46 pcmC1D2p
crw-rw----+  1 root audio 116,  1 Jul 26 11:46 seq
crw-rw----+  1 root audio 116, 33 Jul 26 11:46 timer

# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: VT1802 Analog [VT1802 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: VT1802 Digital [VT1802 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 2: VT1802 Alt Analog [VT1802 Alt Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Can you please help me with this?

Last edited by rafasa (2014-07-27 19:15:10)

emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 1,570

Re: [SOLVED] Sound not working in Chrome

So the issue is only with chromebrowser? I assume those are flash videos and since KDE should run pulseaudio, I guess you would need to install libflashsupport-pulse and its lib32 equivalent should it be required. Check what is currently using audio devices:

fuser -v /dev/snd/*

rafasa

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Registered: 2014-07-26

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Sound not working in Chrome

Thanks, it's working now!

emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 1,570

Re: [SOLVED] Sound not working in Chrome

You are welcome. Please mark the thread as solved by editing your first post and prepending [SOLVED] to the topic, which should be more precise next time.