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#1 2019-10-05 22:16:12

bloodyhell
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Registered: 2014-04-08
Posts: 30

Audio/video issues and no sound in any browser since new install

Hello everybody, it's been a while since I posted anything. After a failed upgrade, I decided to start with a clean slate and reinstalled Arch from scratch again with a brand new freshly downloaded image. Now I have several excruciently annoying issues: First off, there is absolutely no sound what so ever coming out of any web browser (playing youtube vids). Second, I used to use mpv to play music in the background. Both, mpv and mplayer are not working, despite of being freshly installed from updated repositories. I removed mpv and alsa, then reinstalled alsa to see if mpv got in alsa's way somehow. Still no sound. I also noticed that the level bar for PCM is missing in alsamixer. I installed mplayer to see if at least that works. Nada. it complains about mismatching headers and so on. Before I removed mpv, it was complaining about not finding /dev/dsp, something about jack, etc. Why does mpv need jack anyways all of a sudden?? I noticed that sound works in the web browsers when started with sudo or as root, but my user account is in the Audio group, so it can't possibly be a permission issue, could it? Well here's the output of the issues that I get:

Audio errors produced in both Opera and Falkon

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ALSA lib confmisc.c:1281:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.m.dmix.channels'
ALSA lib conf.c:4568:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned eor: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5036:(snd_config_expand) Args evaluate error: No such file or rectory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2564:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM dmix:PCH
[4429:4448:1005/135328.404083:ERROR:alsa_util.cc(204)] PcmOpen: default,No sucfile or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1281:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.m.dmix.channels'
ALSA lib conf.c:4568:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned eor: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5036:(snd_config_expand) Args evaluate error: No such file or rectory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2564:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM dmix:PCH
[4429:4448:1005/135328.404385:ERROR:alsa_util.cc(204)] PcmOpen: plug:default,Nsuch file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1281:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.m.dmix.channels'
ALSA lib conf.c:4568:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned eor: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5036:(snd_config_expand) Args evaluate error: No such file or rectory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2564:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM dmix:PCH
[4429:4448:1005/135814.179652:ERROR:alsa_util.cc(204)] PcmOpen: default,No sucfile or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1281:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.m.dmix.channels'
ALSA lib conf.c:4568:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned eor: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5036:(snd_config_expand) Args evaluate error: No such file or rectory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2564:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM dmix:PCH
[4429:4448:1005/135814.179950:ERROR:alsa_util.cc(204)] PcmOpen: plug:default,Nsuch file or directory

When trying mplayer:

MPlayer SVN-r38139 (C) 2000-2019 MPlayer Team
225 audio & 465 video codecs
do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing Downloads/compilation/.
libavformat version 58.29.100 (external)
Mismatching header version 58.20.100

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#2 2019-10-06 13:44:07

V1del
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Registered: 2012-10-16
Posts: 21,427

Re: Audio/video issues and no sound in any browser since new install

Your ALSA configuration is broken, if "starting as root" fixes this, you likely have a misguided ~/.asoundrc

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