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Emobe

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Registered: 2015-08-12

Posts: 6

Alsa issues - no sound

My sound decided to stop working out of the blue and now when i try alsamixer, I get

cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

Unless I specify a card such as alsamixer -c 0 (this is the card that was working previously), this then brings up the mixer for the card I need but still no sound

So I assume this to do with defaults, I have looked around many forums and haven't found a solution that yet works for me
aplay -l produces this

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC889 Analog [ALC889 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC889 Digital [ALC889 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

aplay -L outputs

null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
sysdefault:CARD=SB
    HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
    Front speakers
surround21:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
    2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 1
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 2
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 3
    HDMI Audio Output

I have probably missed something but I didn't update/install/edit anything (to my knowledge) for this to happen, it just stopped working mid-session. I remember it happened before previously but I have no idea how I fixed it.

Any help is appreciated and if any more info is needed, just let me know.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Alsa issues - no sound

Try searching for the error you got. I found e.g. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=191559

Emobe

Member

Registered: 2015-08-12

Posts: 6

Re: Alsa issues - no sound

Yes, like I said I've looked around. Also I have already tried this solution before multiple times, unless I am doing something wrong?

My issue seems to be what lucke says in that thread,

Both of the sound cards discovered in your computer are using snd_hda_intel, which would make indexing via modules problematic.

Both of the cards are using snd_hda_intel, even though somehow using snd_mia worked for the person in that thread, it hasnt seemed to work for me