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I've recently upgraded all my packages, including KDE. After rebooting, my computer practically has no sound. if I play music using aRTS or eSD, it will simply tell "couldn't open audio....."
or no sound coming out using ALSA.
I didn't make any changes, and the entries on my "lsmod", and "rc.conf" still remain the same, meaning the sound module should be loaded automatically everytime the machine restarts.
one thing that confuses me is when i run "artsd", this output came out
artsd: error while loading shared libraries: libjack.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I'll give you my lsmod entry
Module Size Used by
nvidia 4816660 10
snd_pcm_oss 57384 0
snd_mixer_oss 20992 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_maestro3 26664 2
snd_ac97_codec 71684 1 snd_maestro3
snd_pcm 104708 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_maestro3
snd_page_alloc 12168 1 snd_pcm
snd_timer 28164 1 snd_pcm
snd 60260 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 11104 1 snd
eepro100 31756 0
mii 5888 1 eepro100
ide_scsi 18180 0
usbserial 30312 0
rtc 14408 0
tsdev 7808 0
joydev 10560 0
evdev 10112 0and here's my rc.conf modules
MODULES=(usbserial ide-scsi eepro100 snd-maestro3 snd_pcm_oss nvidia)
DAEMONS=(!syslog-ng !syslogd !klogd !hotplug !pcmcia network netfs crond)
As you can see I'm using "ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator" as my audio card.
Is this aRTS bug related? or i miss some crucial settings for audio...
Pls help me as I'm starting to pull my hair out here.......
Much Thanks ahead!
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please install jack-audio-connection-kit
and look if your problem is solved
else a udev upgrade was done last night perhaps your permissions now wrong set
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arts updated to -3 should install jack for you
by the way try restart your udev
/etc/./start_udev perhaps it helps for the sound issue
if you use udev of course
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Well, i did install jack-audio, and my xmms can play without error, or any multimedia apps.
the thing is, the sound still doesn't come out.
when you mention permission, what do you mean by it? i did remember few mths ago, i upgraded module-init-tools, and the entry along with permission are different from the original, and lucky for me, i had a backup, and everything was fine. this only relates to running certain applications however.
the other thing is udev. i'm quite a newbie, so i don't understand what this udev thing is.
i do however run this find / -name "start_udev*", and it doesn't return anything, so i'm pretty sure i'm not using udev.
now since this jack package runs as daemon, do i need to add certain entry in my rc.conf (the daemons part)? and when i tried to run it, it returns error however.
i suppose it tries to open up ALSA, and it looks for this path "/dev/snd/seq", which i don't have.
anyway, back to the topic, any idea to go about this sound issue?
Thanks
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no you don't need to run it as daemon
if you don't need it
the programs need the library that's all
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Now, here's the funny thing....if i login as root, i could have the sound up and running...
how could this possibly be? so what am i supposed to do if i want to have the sound out and login as normal user?
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that sounds really after a permission problem
sorry have no time right now
you can have a look at http://wiki.archlinux.org
or search the forum
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Thanks so much for your input!, I finally got it up and running.
The only minor problem is, everytime i reboot the machine, and login, the KMix is dead, and i have to manually "on" it...is there anyway to automate the process?
it's like when you logout and login again, the previous volume setting remains the same. that's no longer the case though.
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you tried the alsasound daemon file from the wiki
add alsasound to your rc.conf daemons list
it looks like this alsasound:
#!/bin/bash
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions
case "$1" in
start)
stat_busy "Restoring Alsa mixer volumes"
alsactl restore
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
stat_fail
else
add_daemon alsasound
stat_done
fi
;;
stop)
stat_busy "Storing Alsa mixer volumes"
alsactl store
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
stat_fail
else
rm_daemon alsasound
stat_done
fi
;;
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage $0 {start|stop|restart}"
;;
esac
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