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howard

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Registered: 2011-10-19

Posts: 4

[solved] Issue with sound not working

I had my sound working by installing pulse audio and changing my default sound card.

And now it's not. I'm not sure if I accidentally hit a hotkey (on openbox), my driver order got reverted, or there's a new issue, but it's no longer working.
Alsamixer shows the channel unmuted.

Kind of need some guidance on where to start looking to get this fixed as I'm new to linux.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

Last edited by howard (2014-09-01 10:56:52)

emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 1,570

Re: [solved] Issue with sound not working

aplay -lL;
lspci -vnn | grep -A1 -i audio;
cat /proc/asound/modules;
systool -vm relevant_snd_module;
lsmod | grep ^snd;
for i in /proc/asound/card[0-9]*; do echo "--- $i ---"; amixer -c $(cat $i/id); done;
lsusb #if there is a usb sound card;
# or use the alsa-info script

Any alsa configuration in /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf or /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc? Pavucontrol does not list the devices?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … leshooting

howard

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Registered: 2011-10-19

Posts: 4

Re: [solved] Issue with sound not working

Well, apparently pulseaudio overwrites any alsa configuration, including my specified soundcard index.
I see that in the troubleshooting section you linked it gives a script to add to .xinitrc so it doesn't, but that didn't work.

So, I just uninstalled pulseaudio and now it's using the right soundcard order.

I guess I could have figured out how to change the default soundcard for pulse, but I don't really know why I installed pulse anyway.
Either way it's working now.

emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 1,570

Re: [solved] Issue with sound not working

I guess I could have figured out how to change the default soundcard for pulse, but I don't really know why I installed pulse anyway.

Do you use Skype?