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JAwuku

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 24

Can't get any sound to playback [solved]

Hello everyone,

I just installed Arch Linux (64-bit) for the first time today, and I'm struggling  to try and find out how to get sound.

I installed Alsa, and unmuted all the channels using alsamixer, but still no sound.

My machine is a Shuttle SN26P (Nvidia Nforce4 chipset)

Some info:

lspci | grep audio

05:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. VT1720/24 [Envy24PT/HT] PCI Multi-Channel Audio Controller (rev 01)

ls -l /dev/snd

total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 2007-05-20 16:00 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2007-05-20 16:00 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2007-05-20 16:00 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 17 2007-05-20 16:00 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 18 2007-05-20 16:00 pcmC0D2p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  1 2007-05-20 16:00 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2007-05-20 16:00 timer

lsmod | grep snd

snd_ice1724            87112  1 
snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx      4096  1 snd_ice1724
snd_ac97_codec        115544  1 snd_ice1724
snd_pt2258              4608  1 snd_ice1724
snd_i2c                 6016  2 snd_ice1724,snd_pt2258
snd_ak4xxx_adda         8704  2 snd_ice1724,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx
snd_ak4114              9856  1 snd_ice1724
snd_mpu401_uart         8320  1 snd_ice1724
snd_rawmidi            22944  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_oss            32768  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      7680  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                55424  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          7828  3 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            43936  0 
snd_pcm                80904  4 snd_ice1724,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ak4114,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              22152  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          8720  1 snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          16640  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    56808  17 snd_ice1724,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pt2258,snd_i2c,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_ak4114,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore               7840  1 snd
ac97_bus                3072  1 snd_ac97_codec

Could you give any further advice?

Thanks

Last edited by JAwuku (2007-05-21 03:05:03)

spookshow

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From: abbotsford, bc

Registered: 2006-11-15

Posts: 95

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Re: Can't get any sound to playback [solved]

gpasswd -a <username> audio

JAwuku

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 24

Re: Can't get any sound to playback [solved]

gpasswd -a <username> audio

Thanks, I had done that already, when I noticed that the audio group on my system does not exist:

when I type groups

root bin daemon sys adm disk wheel log

How do I create the audio group?

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,718

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Re: Can't get any sound to playback [solved]

Those are the groups that root belongs to, you have to issue the command as yourself AND if you have added yourself to the audio group you will see it .

R

Last edited by ralvez (2007-05-21 00:57:42)

JAwuku

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 24

Re: Can't get any sound to playback [solved]

Thanks! it seems to work now for the first time!:)

Problem solved