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Edit: I managed to get the audio working with pavucontrol, still am getting the static on boot till I start up pavucontrol or play an audio file.
I installed Arch yesterday. I didn't have any sound at all. When trying to run ALSA mixer I got an error (didn't log it).
I messed with a few ALSA files from the wiki to get to the root problem and still had no luck. I have alsa-utils installed and can't open it.
Everytime I reboot Arch I have a static white noise playing through my headphones. It doesn't stop till I play an audio file of some sort.
I rebooted for the 1000th time today. Decided to login to my root user, static is going as usual. Opened up Firefox and lo and behold I have audio from the video.
Reboot again, login to my user. Open Firefox the static stopped, video audio, nothing. Alsa-mixer working for the first time.
I have looked at the wiki. Tested and saw that all my drivers are working correctly and are being read. Just can't play audio.
Last edited by venture (2015-08-26 21:36:17)
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Just a guess, but the noise could be caused by buggy audio chip being in power saving mode from boot, until some sound is playing.
If audio is working for root but not normal user, there could be something wrong with your user's configuration. I'd strongly advice not to use root account for testing, but create a new user account instead.
Apart from that, it's quite impossible to guess what's going on since you didn't provide any logs or details of your system.
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I recreated an account and the problem is still there. Booting into the i3 desktop. Loging into root, it plays the static but still plays noise. My root has a dektop enviroment by default it seems, never edited the xinitric file for the root account.
I can't recall what ALSA files I've edited. I know I changed a file that changes to the default to device to DAC/Amp I'm using. I had to replace a 0 with a 2 but I can't find that location browsing through the wiki.
Could the desktop enviroment be cause problems for the audio?
Using an I5 4690k
Nvidia GTX 980
Msi B88M-P33 MOBO
Audio-GD 15.32 DAC/Amp (Audio over usb)
Running the latest version of Arch available
Ran pacman -Syu and everything is up to date
Running nvidia drivers 64 & 32bit to work with steam
I don't know where to start with logs.
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My root has a dektop enviroment by default it seems, never edited the xinitric file for the root account.
afaik it should start twm and some other apps from /etc/X11/xinitrc
I can't recall what ALSA files I've edited. I know I changed a file that changes to the default to device to DAC/Amp I'm using. I had to replace a 0 with a 2 but I can't find that location browsing through the wiki.
If you use arch, you have to keep track of your own system configuration. My guess is you either edited asound.conf, modprobe configs or your bootloaders config.
Could the desktop enviroment be cause problems for the audio?
No, unless you or your DE uses any additional sound servers like pulseaudio,
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I edited the asound.conf for pulseaudio.
I put the code back to:
pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}pcm.!default {
type pulse
}ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
Running
pulseaudio
from terminal results in
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
I just managed to get the sound working. Went over to
pavucontrol
and it was outputing to the mic jack on my front panel.
Any idea what is up with the above though? Is that normal? It's still outputting it after I got my sound working.
Still getting the static on reboot, too. On entering pavucontrols it stops. Setup an autorun with pavucontrols maybe?
Last edited by venture (2015-08-26 21:34:52)
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So I just rebooted a short while ago and I'm getting the same thing, though only via whatever I plug into the 3.5mm jack.
I've also been getting the "loud audio pop on boot" as someone else posted, and before that, an episode of no sound at all via that jack.
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