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AntonPetts

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Registered: 2008-06-29

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Sound Problems

I'm on Arch64 and it's working very well. However I just can't get the sound to work properly. This far I've tried with oss, but I have three problems:

1) I can't seem to get any surround-sound except for when running 'osstest', so I can't play normal sound on surround I guess.

2) I can't get my headphones to work with it.

3) I don't get any sound in flash, not sure if it's oss or the 32bit libraries though.

I also get the following error messages during startup:

FATAL: module snd_mixer_oss not found.
FATAL: snd_pcm_oss not found.
FATAL: snd_hwdep not found.
FATAL: snd_page_alloc not found.
FATAL: snd_snd_pcm not found.
FATAL: snd_timer not found.
FATAL: snd not found.
FATAL: snd_hda intel not found.
FATAL: module soundcore not found.

Thanks

Last edited by AntonPetts (2008-07-03 17:16:53)

sph

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Re: Sound Problems

Please post the result of:

modprobe -l

or

modprobe -l | grep 'snd'

AntonPetts

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Re: Sound Problems

Please post the result of:

modprobe -l

Output is more than 500 rows plus those that didn't fit inside the terminal. Rather than pasting all those into the forum, I think it's more interesting that

modprobe -l | grep 'snd'

Gives nothing

sph

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Re: Sound Problems

I think it's more interesting that

modprobe -l | grep 'snd'

Gives nothing

Yes. No sound modules in /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/sound/.

Is this a self compiled kernel?

Last edited by sph (2008-07-03 18:54:54)

AntonPetts

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Re: Sound Problems

Is this a self compiled kernel?

Nope, it's not.

sph

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Re: Sound Problems

The sound modules are part of the kernel package, but they are missing.

Have you tried to reinstall the kernel?

pacman -Sy kernel26

To get the modules back.

Last edited by sph (2008-07-03 19:49:41)

AntonPetts

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Re: Sound Problems

The sound modules are part of the kernel package, but they are missing.

Have you tried to reinstall the kernel?

pacman -Sy kernel26

To get the modules back.

Tried that, but the error messages are still there .