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tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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no sound [solved]

I recently reinstalled my entire Arch system. For the first couple days, everything was fine. Then a couple days ago I tried running MPD and found that none of my songs would play - they just wouldn't even start. Then I went to Firefox and loaded a page with flash-embedded audio and there was no sound. Then I opened a video file on my computer and there was no sound. I checked my /etc/group and found that I am in the audio group still. I also checked /etc/rc.conf and found that the alsa daemon is still automatically loaded there. I am running alsa-utils version 1.0.14-1 .Any ideas why sound isn't working anymore, anyone?

Last edited by tony5429 (2007-08-28 20:29:29)

tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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Re: no sound [solved]

Actually, I found that I can play audio in Audacity but only if OSS: /dev/dsp2 is selected. So this must be an ALSA issue. I don't quite understand all this... If OSS can handle my audio, do I need alsa?? Can I just always use OSS for everything?

wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

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Re: no sound [solved]

OSS is deprecated in so far, that it can only have one input source.

e.g. if you want to listen to music and watch a youtube video at the same time one of the two won't have sound.

Regarding alsa a stupid question: Did you unmute all channels and set the volume? It happend more than once to me that I checked my speakers and the connection when only the volume was turned down or a channel was muted. Use alsamixer in a terminal to check this.

tony5429

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Re: no sound [solved]

OO - then I don't want to use OSS. I'd rather do the ALSA. Here are a couple screenshots...

http://wikicode.frihost.net/1.png - I don't know what to do with that and the Samson is not my soundcard but an attached USB mic...
http://wikicode.frihost.net/2.png - that's the GNOME sound controls; note that everything is turned on and unmuted.

Any ideas??

tony5429

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Re: no sound [solved]

bump (is this allowed? i know some forums discourage it)

tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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Re: no sound [solved]

Well after switching to Arch64, I do not have this problem anymore. Weird...