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lmellen

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From: Fairport, NY

Registered: 2004-06-11

Posts: 120

no sound

:? I've just about finished installing Arch on a Dell inspiron c640 laptop. I have the java runtime environment , flash-plugin and mplayer installed and running well.
I followed the alsa setup in the wiki to get sound working and it's silent as a graveyard. Hwd says there is no sound card. I used alsaconfig to find and install it.  I checked the files recommended checking in the wiki and everything seems ok. I tried to play a music cd and was told I didn't have permission to access the cd. I did add my user id to group add - sound.  I also added all modules to modules and daemon in rc.conf. Anybody know what's going on?
I wonder if my sound card is bad? The only other difference is I always  used KDE, this time i'm using Gnome. This is my favorite distro so I would like  to get it working, any ideas??? -- thanks - larry

FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

Posts: 1,029

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Re: no sound

Did you remember to log out and log back in after adding your user to the audio group? Did you run alsamixer to configure the volumes and unmute everything?

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iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: no sound

try the group "audio" instead.

James

lmellen

Member

From: Fairport, NY

Registered: 2004-06-11

Posts: 120

Re: no sound

  Thanks Fubar, Iphitus! The wiki said to use sound. I used audio and sound
now works fine. --Thanks again - Larry