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vaati

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Registered: 2015-09-18

Posts: 11

Audio problems

I cant get audio working in my new Arch installation, Firefox and Audacious are with no sound, Pulseaudio, ffmpeg and a few plugins are installed.
The only thing that works is

aplay some_wav_file.wav

Helpful information:

alsamixer:
https://imgur.com/a/jDCSD

alsa-info:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=f24b7 … be02a8275c

lspci -nn:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller [8086:2e30] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port [8086:2e31] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 3 [8086:27d4] (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b8] (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller [8086:27df] (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode] [8086:27c0] (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 620] [10de:0f01] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0bea] (rev a1)
05:01.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter [10ec:8139] (rev 10)

[cairo@cairo ~]$ fuser -v /dev/snd/*
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  cairo       674 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC1:  cairo       674 F.... pulseaudio

Sorry my english, thank you.

Last edited by vaati (2017-09-30 19:36:04)

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Audio problems

Have you installed and configured pulseaudio? Firefox hasn't worked with just plain ALSA for some time now.

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vaati

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Registered: 2015-09-18

Posts: 11

Re: Audio problems

Have you installed and configured pulseaudio? Firefox hasn't worked with just plain ALSA for some time now.

It's istalled. What do you mean with "configured pulseaudio"?

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Audio problems

Is it outputting to the correct sink?

I usually just install and run pavucontrol and check the profile in the configuration tab, for more complex configs read the wiki.

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tenplaza9

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Registered: 2017-09-28

Posts: 6

Re: Audio problems

Pulseaudio should work out of the box, a simple reboot got pulseaudio in working order for me (in firefox and such). Cheers

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Newbie. For now.

vaati

Member

Registered: 2015-09-18

Posts: 11

Re: Audio problems

Is it outputting to the correct sink?

I usually just install and run pavucontrol and check the profile in the configuration tab, for more complex configs read the wiki.

pavucontrol shows me only "Dummy device", this is bad, right? From PulseAudio troubleshooting PulseAudio Dummy Device

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: Audio problems

What's the output of

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

likely something is blocking pulse from accessing your card, please try to post outputs wrapped in [ code ] tags.

vaati

Member

Registered: 2015-09-18

Posts: 11

Re: Audio problems

What's the output of

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

likely something is blocking pulse from accessing your card, please try to post outputs wrapped in [ code ] tags.

See my edit.

vaati

Member

Registered: 2015-09-18

Posts: 11

Re: Audio problems

Problem fixed. I went to pavucontrol configurations tab and set "Build In Audio" item to "Analog Stereo Duplex". Thank you all guys.