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NomenNescio

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Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 3

No volume control elements and/or devices found

Hi, I recently installed Arch Linux and I followed the tutorials on how to configure it. At this moment I have Gnome installed and it is working fine, I only have one problem.

Every time if I try to access volume control I get the following error:
"No volume control elements and/or devices found"
I'm relatively new to Linux so it might be me just being stupid(Maybe I just don't have the right packages installed) but I've searched the web and I didn't find anything that could help, I also searched this site but there are only a few things about sound problems. I think the problem is caused because Linux is not detecting my sound card (its an on board sound card) or maybe I have not given the command to detect it/activate it. In Google I've found that 'lsmod' and 'lspci' commands are for detecting drivers, so I executed those in my terminal and put them here, I hope this might help fixing my problem.

Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  252608  8 
nvidia               6828532  22 
jfs                   172540  1 
ext2                   57352  1 
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
ppdev                   7556  0 
eth1394                16772  0 
lp                      9604  0 
snd_intel8x0           28828  0 
rtc                    10416  0 
ppp_generic            23444  0 
snd_pcm_oss            39072  0 
snd_mixer_oss          14464  1 snd_pcm_oss
sg                     26652  0 
usbhid                 34592  0 
hid                    25088  1 usbhid
slhc                    6272  1 ppp_generic
shpchp                 29588  0 
pci_hotplug            27976  1 shpchp
ff_memless              5256  1 usbhid
parport_pc             35940  1 
tsdev                   6336  0 
parport                31176  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
i2c_sis96x              5124  0 
i2c_core               17792  2 nvidia,i2c_sis96x
snd_intel8x0m          14476  0 
snd_ac97_codec         91940  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
ac97_bus                2432  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                68484  4 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              18820  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    43492  10 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
pcspkr                  2816  0 
evdev                   8192  0 
ohci1394               31920  0 
ieee1394               84056  2 eth1394,ohci1394
sis_agp                 6404  1 
agpgart                26200  2 nvidia,sis_agp
soundcore               6496  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7816  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm
8139too                22912  0 
mii                     4992  1 8139too
ext3                  119688  1 
jbd                    55336  1 ext3
mbcache                 7044  2 ext2,ext3
ehci_hcd               30092  0 
sr_mod                 14372  0 
cdrom                  34464  1 sr_mod
sd_mod                 16768  5 
ohci_hcd               18948  0 
usbcore               115464  4 usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
ata_generic             5380  0 
pata_sis               10508  4 
libata                 94100  2 ata_generic,pata_sis

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 651 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS962 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 04)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] FireWire Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:09.0 RF controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Am 1771 MBW [Alchemy] (rev 04)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

Any help would be appreciated because this is  getting very frustrating >_>

Last edited by NomenNescio (2007-04-28 10:50:10)

Captain Spaulding

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Registered: 2006-11-16

Posts: 115

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Re: No volume control elements and/or devices found

Recalling what I know about SIS900 chipsets I think you are mostly good. The right modules seem to be loaded. Apparently the mixer devices are not created which can have several reasons. I think the easiest way to fix this is to run the ALSA autoconfigurator again and unmute all output devices. As root

alsaconf

Follow the dialogue and you after a few steps alsaconf will finish successfully and mention that it raises volume to default levels. Well, it does but does not unmute all devices. Start alsamixer and unmute by hand.

NomenNescio

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Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 3

Re: No volume control elements and/or devices found

Thanks for the help, didn't get the sound to work but yet because I kinda broke my linux(wont boot)>_>

Gonna reinstall it, things usually go better the second time.

ryurhrt

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Registered: 2007-03-17

Posts: 27

Re: No volume control elements and/or devices found

Thanks for the help, didn't get the sound to work but yet because I kinda broke my linux(wont boot)>_>

Gonna reinstall it, things usually go better the second time.

make sure u have adding the user to audio group in order to access sound device.

gpasswd -a user audio

NomenNescio

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Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 3

Re: No volume control elements and/or devices found

Thanks for the help, didn't get the sound to work but yet because I kinda broke my linux(wont boot)>_>

Gonna reinstall it, things usually go better the second time.

make sure u have adding the user to audio group in order to access sound device.

gpasswd -a user audio

Yes, I think that was the problem. Anyways, I reinstalled Arch Linux and everything is working fine now.