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kelnoky

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Registered: 2007-11-20

Posts: 135

[SOLVED]No sound for user after new motherboard installation

So I installed a new motherboard, and thus a new soundchip. The system boots, it works fine, except for the fact that I just don't have any sound. MPD and mpv/mplayer don't give me any sound. I do, however, get sound from youtube in firefox. When I start a video in VLC, it tells me:

Audio output failed:
The audio device "default" could not be used:
No such device.

When I try to start alsamixer, I get: "cannot open mixer: No such device"

When I try to start alsamixer with sudo, it works...the levels are fine and the channels unmuted. Starting a video as root also gives me sound. Here is some output from mpv:

kelnoky ~/down/malcolm/mitm/season 2 $ sudo mpv Malcolm\ in\ the\ Middle\ -\ 2x07\ -\ Robbery.avi 
[sudo] password for kelnoky: 
Playing: Malcolm in the Middle - 2x07 - Robbery.avi
 (+) Video --vid=1 (mpeg4)
 (+) Audio --aid=1 (mp3)
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz stereo 2ch s16
VO: [opengl] 608x340 yuv420p
AV: 00:03:06 / 00:22:11 (14%) A-V: -0.000
[input] No bind found for key 'DEL'.
AV: 00:03:07 / 00:22:11 (14%) A-V:  0.000
[input] No bind found for key 'DEL'.
AV: 00:03:09 / 00:22:11 (14%) A-V:  0.000


Exiting... (Quit)
kelnoky ~/down/malcolm/mitm/season 2 $ mpv Malcolm\ in\ the\ Middle\ -\ 2x07\ -\ Robbery.avi 
[input_file] Client connected
Playing: Malcolm in the Middle - 2x07 - Robbery.avi
 (+) Video --vid=1 (mpeg4)
 (+) Audio --aid=1 (mp3)
Using software decoding.
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card 'SB'
ALSA lib conf.c:4260:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4260:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4260:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:4739:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2267:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
[ao/alsa] Playback open error: No such device
[ao/oss] Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
connect(2) call to /dev/shm/jack-1000/default/jack_0 failed (err=No such file or directory)
attempt to connect to server failed
[ao/jack] cannot open server
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no audio
VO: [opengl] 608x340 yuv420p
Fontconfig error: "/home/kelnoky/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 3: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Fontconfig error: "/home/kelnoky/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 3: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Fontconfig error: "/home/kelnoky/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 3: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
V: 00:02:03 / 00:22:11 (9%)


Exiting... (Quit)

First as root, works, then as user, doesn't. I tried adding my user to the "audio" group, it didn't do anything. Please help.

Last edited by kelnoky (2015-06-11 07:34:26)

kelnoky

Member

Registered: 2007-11-20

Posts: 135

Re: [SOLVED]No sound for user after new motherboard installation

As usual, I try forever for fix it, then finally post a topic on the forums and immediately afterwards I find the error and fix it. I had an old ~/.asoundrc that was pointing to the now obsolete soundcard. Deleted that and now it works.