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Macdelaney

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Registered: 2008-11-24

Posts: 24

Changing the alsa device? [Solved]

I finished my first Arch install last night, and I-m having a peculiar problem.
I cant get sound working and when I use alsamixer from the console the device is set to pcsp, which is odd because i use HDA nvidia, which pop ups when I use the sound control from Gnome. I think its recognized, but not set as default. Any ideas????

Last edited by Macdelaney (2008-11-28 13:36:51)

Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 1,784

Re: Changing the alsa device? [Solved]

You should tell Archlinux not to load the module for this pcsp (which stands for pc speaker). Do this by adding MODULES=(!snd_pcsp ...) into the MODULES line in the rc.conf, do a restart and everything should be fine

Macdelaney

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Registered: 2008-11-24

Posts: 24

Re: Changing the alsa device? [Solved]

Thanks Army.
It was so simple, I feel a little stupid right now!