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Tadhg

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From: Éire

Registered: 2023-01-19

Posts: 14

[SOLVED] Alsamixer not able to find sound card

Hello, I recently installed Arch and for whatever reason I am unable to get alsamixer to open and haven't been able to receive any audio output in any applications.

Whenever I run the command

alsamixer

I get the following output:

ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1334:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5703:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib control.c:1528:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

I have also tried

alsamixer -c 1

(and a few other channels) and each time have received the output:

invalid card index: 1
try `alsamixer --help' for more information

I assume this means that for whatever reason Alsa is unable to detect my sound card (which i definitely have; I've had functioning audio with several other distros on this machine).
Any ideas on how to fix this?

Last edited by Tadhg (2023-01-19 15:39:30)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,402

Re: [SOLVED] Alsamixer not able to find sound card

Output of

aplay -l
sudo dmesg | grep -iE 'snd|sof'

on a safe guess you need sof-firmware and didn't install it.

Tadhg

Member

From: Éire

Registered: 2023-01-19

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] Alsamixer not able to find sound card

Output of

aplay -l
sudo dmesg | grep -iE 'snd|sof'

on a safe guess you need sof-firmware and didn't install it.

output of

 aplay -l

is:

aplay: device_list:274: no soundcards found...

output of

sudo dmesg | grep -iE 'snd|sof'

is:

[    0.023047] software IO TLB: area num 4.
[    0.185876] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
[    0.214315] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
[    0.214315] software IO TLB: mapped [mem 0x000000006140c000-0x000000006540c000] (64MB)
[    0.286770] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Windows Production PCA 2011: a92902398e16c49778cd90f99e4f9ae17c55af53'
[    0.286779] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011: 13adbf4309bd82709c8cd54f316ed522988a1bd4'
[    4.006552] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if info 0x040100
[    4.006681] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: Digital mics found on Skylake+ platform, using SOF driver
[    4.428526] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if info 0x040100
[    4.428622] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Digital mics found on Skylake+ platform, using SOF driver
[    4.428635] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    4.429317] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if 0x040100
[    4.429396] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[    4.437684] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: use msi interrupt mode
[    4.494539] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: hda codecs found, mask 5
[    4.494542] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: using HDA machine driver skl_hda_dsp_generic now
[    4.494545] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: DMICs detected in NHLT tables: 2
[    4.494831] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Direct firmware load for intel/sof/sof-tgl.ri failed with error -2
[    4.494834] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: error: sof firmware file is missing, you might need to
[    4.494835] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3:        download it from https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin/
[    4.494836] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: error: failed to load DSP firmware -2
[    4.495319] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: error: sof_probe_work failed err: -2 

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,402

Re: [SOLVED] Alsamixer not able to find sound card

on a safe guess you need sof-firmware and didn't install it.

Tadhg

Member

From: Éire

Registered: 2023-01-19

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] Alsamixer not able to find sound card

on a safe guess you need sof-firmware and didn't install it.

Ok that worked. Both of the above outputs were the same before and after installing sof and alsa still didn't work. However rebooting my computer fixed it, Thanks a million

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