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LArchimonde

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Registered: 2014-09-23

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] No sound after fresh install

Hi

I am having a little bit of a problem that I couldn't solve myself. My sound is not working after a fresh installation of Arch. Everything else is fine but sound is not working. My "user" is in "audio" group, I tried some solution nothing smart just trying to reinstall or try to delete pulseaudio or alsa, only to find they are dependant on something. I have a Gnome 3.12. Also I am not an expert (obviously) ,but some things are still unclear to me about linux and this is not my first expiriance with Arch.

This is what I belive you need from harware list:
Motherboard: Asus P5Q PRO
Video Card: Ati Radeon 4850HD
Audio: Realtek ALC1200, 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC (this is built in)

So enough of my rambling here are the data I think you may need for actually helping me:

This is the version I am using

 pacman -Q | grep alsa
alsa-lib 1.0.28-1
alsa-oss 1.0.28-1
alsa-plugins 1.0.28-2
alsa-utils 1.0.28-1
lib32-alsa-lib 1.0.28-1
lib32-alsa-plugins 1.0.28-1
pulseaudio-alsa 2-3
zita-alsa-pcmi 0.2.0-1. 

 cat /proc/asound/modules
 0 snd_hda_intel
 1 snd_hda_intel 

 lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_realtek    67127  1 
snd_hda_codec_generic    63126  1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     45117  1 
snd_hda_intel          26327  10 
snd_hda_controller     26727  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec         108552  5 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_hwdep              17244  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                88487  4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_timer              26614  1 snd_pcm
snd                    73436  28 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
soundcore              13031  2 snd,snd_hda_codec 

 aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 

 ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       80 Oct  9 23:27 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  5 Oct  9 23:27 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  2 Oct  9 23:27 controlC1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Oct  9 23:27 hwC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  4 Oct  9 23:27 hwC1D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  7 Oct  9 23:27 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  6 Oct  9 23:27 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  8 Oct  9 23:45 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  9 Oct  9 23:27 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  3 Oct  9 23:27 pcmC1D3p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  1 Oct  9 23:26 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Oct  9 23:27 timer 

Sorry if anything is wrong it's my first post

Last edited by LArchimonde (2014-10-10 13:32:16)

lagagnon

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Re: [SOLVED] No sound after fresh install

All looks OK - I wonder if it is not something really simple like the main channels being muted. Have you used alsamixer to unmute and increase volume sliders?

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LArchimonde

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Registered: 2014-09-23

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] No sound after fresh install

No, I checked that in the beggining, however the thing that bothers me is there is, in gnome settings; sound; there is no intel hd or radeonhd choises just "Digital Output" (S/PDIF) -Built-in-Audio". And I can't seem to add new one or anything else. Aslo in the same menu sound; I cannot choose another profile. Just one: Digital Stereo.

I was thinking could the new kernel be guilty? Whenever I installed in the past everything was ok, including the sound. Now there is something that I didn't mention, there were two lines when I started installing Arch yesterday,

"Posible missing firmware aic94, smsmdtv."

This is not exactly how it was written but I do remeber posible and these two "missing" ones, because I writed them down.

That's it. Anyone has any ideas?

LArchimonde

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Registered: 2014-09-23

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] No sound after fresh install

Hi I just resolved the problem! As for the all setting everything was fine I just needed to install "pavucontrol" and choose my channel in pavucontrol menu.

That's it. Thanks lagagnon for trying!