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padma

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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sound problems

:lol:HEELP

Ok, I have kde in my archlinux and i dont have any sound, just the beep sound. I downloaded some drivers for my sound card <Onboard VIA AC97 Sound Card> from Via wb page, but it didint work. ARts started to say that it couldnt load default playback. So i downloaded alsa-utils just to see what happened, and that message form arts didint pop again. Now its only xine that says it didint found any sound driveers.

SO now im all confused!!, i checked modules.conf and theres no modules there.

Any ideas!!?????:/

grave

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2007-04-06

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Re: sound problems

Try:
# lspci -v | grep -i audio
If the output is something like :
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
add in etc/rc.conf by MODULES=(snd-via82xx)

padma

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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Re: sound problems

Yeah, this is what i got: 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 30)

Um but i dont know if thats a good thing

padma

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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Re: sound problems

Well, i did what you said and im still getting the xine cant find drivers message

padma

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Re: sound problems

xine couldnt initialiaze any sound driver!!!!:mad:

grave

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Re: sound problems

Only with xine ?  remove en reinstall ?
try some other players smplayer or kaffeine to see if you got the same error ?
you downloaded some drivers for the sound card perhaps you have to remove them ?
the driver is already present in the kernel

This is how i install the sound on a ac97 board
# pacman -S alsa-utils
# pacman -S alsa-oss
# amixer set Master 95 unmute
# amixer set PCM 95 unmute
# alsactl store (enter)
Add alsa by etc/rc.conf   DAEMONS=(alsa)
Add snd-via82xx by etc/rc.conf  MODULES=(snd-via82xx)

in snd-via82xx   dont change the xx

padma

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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Re: sound problems

Well, amixer tells me theres no such device, but i downloaded Kaffeine to see if it works better.

padma

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Re: sound problems

This is what i got

[root@myhost dev]# alsactl store
alsactl: save_state:1253: No soundcards found...

[root@myhost dev]# amixer set Master 95 unmute
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device

[root@myhost dev]# amixer set PCM 95 unmute
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device

grave

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Registered: 2007-04-06

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Re: sound problems

It looks an alsa problem

look if alsa-lib is loaded normale its a kde dependencie
# pacman -S alsa-lib
See if the sound driver is loaded
$ lsmod | grep -i snd
there must be something in the list like
snd_via82xx            23192  1

if not try modprobe snd-via82xx
to see if it loads without errors

next go to /proc/asound

open the de file with kedit > version it give something:
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc3 (Wed Mar 14 07:25:50 2007 UTC)

open the file > cards something like:
0 [V8237          ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
                      VIA 8237 with ALC850 at 0xe800, irq 17

I am running the 32 bit version of arch and the 2.6.21-ARCH kernel
pc is amd athlon 64 processor 3200+ with via ac97 sound onboard

padma

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Re: sound problems

[root@myhost ~]# lsmod | grep -i snd
snd_page_alloc          8584  0

[root@myhost ~]# modprobe snd-via82xx
WARNING: Error inserting snd (/lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/kernel/sound/acore/snd.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting snd_seq_device (/lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/kernel/sound/acore/seq/snd-seq-device.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting snd_rawmidi (/lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/kernel/sound/acore/snd-rawmidi.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting snd_mpu401_uart (/lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/kernel/sound/drivers/mpu401/snd-mpu401-uart.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting snd_timer (/lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/kernel/sound/acore/snd-timer.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting snd_pcm (/lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/kernel/sound/acore/snd-pcm.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-bus.ko': No such file or directory
WARNING: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-codec.ko': No such file or directory
FATAL: Error inserting snd_via82xx (/lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/kernel/pci/snd-via82xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

I dont have asound in /proc

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

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Re: sound problems

2.6.16-ARCH, aha. Run 'pacman -Syu'.

(... and read all frontpage news, get a knoppix livecd or something similar before rebooting, etc)

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padma

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Re: sound problems

checking package integrity... done.
removing raidtools...
warning: /etc/raidtab saved as /etc/raidtab.pacsave
done.
removing mkinitrd...
warning: /etc/mkinitrd.conf saved as /etc/mkinitrd.conf.pacsave
done.
removing devfsd...
warning: /etc/devfsd.conf saved as /etc/devfsd.conf.pacsave
done.
removing gaim... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts...
error: the following file conflicts were found:
  kernel-headers: /usr/include/sound/asequencer.h: exists in filesystem
  kernel-headers: /usr/include/sound/asound.h: exists in filesystem
  kernel-headers: /usr/include/sound/asound_fm.h: exists in filesystem
  kernel-headers: /usr/include/sound/emu10k1.h: exists in filesystem
  kernel-headers: /usr/include/sound/hdsp.h: exists in filesystem
  kernel-headers: /usr/include/sound/hdspm.h: exists in filesystem
  kernel-headers: /usr/include/sound/sb16_csp.h: exists in filesystem
  kernel-headers: /usr/include/sound/sfnt_info.h: exists in filesystem
  kernel-headers: /usr/include/sound/sscape_ioctl.h: exists in filesystem
  gimp: /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpenums.pyc: exists in filesystem
  gimp: /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.pyc: exists in filesystem

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Whats going on with this thing!!!

padma

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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Re: sound problems

ok, now i cant get into my archlinux without a live cd.

thanks a lot

lilsirecho

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Re: sound problems

Please try ...pacman -Syuf..  when confonted with the errors you posted....

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padma

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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Re: sound problems

Well, i cant actually do that cause whenever i try to get in to linux these messages apear>

pivot_root: pivot_root: No such file or directory
umount: /initrd: No such file or directory
umount: /initrd: No such file or directory
/linux rc: 490: /sbin/busybox :not found
free unused kernel memory:  244 k freed 

BusyBox v1.01 (2006.05.09-19: 19 + 0000) Built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands
/bin/sh: can't acces tty; job control turned off.

THEN IT JUST STOPS, and it stays there. Im using a live cd right now. >.<!

PLEASE HEELP

padma

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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Re: sound problems

First i couldnt hear anything , now i cant log on to linux !!! >.<  im such a newbie