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arox1

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-07-08

Posts: 174

Yet another ALSA problem

Hi all
Since I installed Arch few days ago I have problem with setting up sound. Everything seems to be ok but after few reboots my ALSA is screwed

My card:

00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)

lsmod shows

[arkadiusz@darkstar ~]$ lsmod |grep snd
snd_seq_oss            29184  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      6528  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                46672  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6796  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            39072  0 
snd_mixer_oss          14464  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_atiixp_modem       12296  0 
snd_atiixp             15500  2 
snd_ac97_codec         91940  2 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp
ac97_bus                2432  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                68484  4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              18820  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    43492  12 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6496  2 snd
snd_page_alloc          7816  3 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp,snd_pcm

I configured it like it was written in the archwiki and on this forum. First I installed alsa-lib & utils, udev loaded needed modules for my card and I set sound levels with alsamixer. I added alsa to daemons ir rc.conf
Later after alsa broke few times I tried using alsaconf and adding modules to modprobe.conf but it made no difference

When my sound is broken I get following output in terminal:

ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3968:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2143:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
aplay: main:550: audio open error: No such device

When I reinstall alsa-lib and alsa utils my sound is working ok but again only for some time
I have no idea what is wrong, I never had problems with sound on linux. My only suspicion is mpd which I use to listening to music but I don't know how it can break whole sound

xploded101

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-03-29

Posts: 11

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Re: Yet another ALSA problem

Hi,

try stopping mpd and then trying, I could not get gxine to start if mpd was running