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Andromea

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Registered: 2005-03-19

Posts: 25

Sound issues

Since an update a week ago I'm having serious issues with my sound. It started after I did pacman -Syu, this is what got updated:

[12/15/06 20:33] starting full system upgrade
[12/15/06 20:52] upgraded beryl-dbus-svn (943-1 -> 1655-1)
[12/15/06 20:52] upgraded beryl-vidcap-svn (943-1 -> 1462-2)
[12/15/06 20:52] upgraded emerald-svn (937-1 -> 1666-1)
[12/15/06 20:52] upgraded emerald-themes-svn (937-1 -> 1632-1)
[12/15/06 20:52] upgraded libgsf (1.14.1-1 -> 1.14.2-1)
[12/15/06 20:52] upgraded libwpd (0.8.6-1 -> 0.8.7-1)
[12/15/06 20:52] upgraded mono (1.2.2-1 -> 1.2.2.1-1)
[12/15/06 20:53] upgraded seom-svn (86-1 -> 118-1)

((Some of) these packages came from the unsable repository, but after the problems came I downgraded tem again.)

While I was doing this update Audacious was playing, and kept playing. But when I started Konsole, and thus logged-in, Audacious freaked out. It suddenly started playing the mp3 at several times the normal speed, but there wasn't any sound comming out of my speakers, it just rushed through the tracks. And it wasn't just Audacious none of the apps I tried (Mplayer Noatun) was able to produce sound.
After fiddeling around some I found out that rebooting and then running alsaconf solved the problem, but only temporary. At seemingly random moments the whole 'thing' would happen again. Running alsaconf after the sound disappeared didn't help, I really needed to reboot and then run alsaconf. As you can imagine I found this quite annoying.
I asked on the irc channel and found out that more people were having problems with their sound, but no solution was availible. I also posted to the mailinglist, with zero response.

For a few days I kept hoping a simple pacman -Syu would solve my problem. But nothing came up. The problem actually got worse yesterday. Now Arch won't even recognise my soundcards anymore. Not my onboard Intel chip nor the SB Audigy. And to be sure it wasn't a hardware problem I tried another distro, wich did recognize both of the sound chips.

When I look in the logs of my Arch install I find an entry repeated many, many times, and I don't know what to do with it or where it's comming from, it's in messages.log

Dec 15 21:09:46 andromea snd-emu10k1: Suspected sound card removal
Dec 15 21:09:46 andromea snd-emu10k1: Suspected sound card removal
Dec 15 21:09:46 andromea snd-emu10k1: Suspected sound card removal
Dec 15 21:09:46 andromea snd-emu10k1: Suspected sound card removal

It tried to google it but I only get a few results, nothing useful.

So now I'm hoping someone could explain what has happend to my sound. And possibly help me solve it.