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Zerathidune

Member

Registered: 2007-02-25

Posts: 102

No sound with Intel HD audio [solved]

Hi,

I recently set up my laptop with archlinux, and I'm getting no sound. I have the drivers for my chip installed, there is nothing unusual in dmesg, and alsamixer detects the card fine, but even after I unmute the card, I get nothing. when I start up kde, I get this message:

Sound server informational message:

Error while initializing the sound driver:

device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)

The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

It may be as simple as making /dev/dsp a symbolic link to the correct device, but I'm not sure which device that would be.

alsamixer tells me:

Card: HDA Intel
Chip:SigmaTel STAC9221 A1

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Zerathidune (2007-03-10 03:35:45)

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: No sound with Intel HD audio [solved]

do you belong to the audio group?
as root
"gpasswd -a USER audio"
as user at konsole type
"alsamixer"
anything come up ?
awhile back i had an issue with line jack sense i forget weather on/off

Zerathidune

Member

Registered: 2007-02-25

Posts: 102

Re: No sound with Intel HD audio [solved]

That did it, thanks, I ran that command as you asked, and initially got an error message trying to run alsamixer as a regular user, but upon logging back in... kde has rather impressive startup noises.