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Plutonian

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Registered: 2008-12-05

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aplay infinite loop [SOLVED]

I'm installing alsa on my HP Pavillion with an Intel HD Audio Controller. I installed alsa-utils and alsa-lib, blacklisted the snd_pcsp module in rc.conf, and unmuted all audio channels with alsamixer. When I ran aplay on /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav, it prints "Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, rate 48000 Hz, Mono" and then proceeds to do nothing. No sound comes out, and the program never exits. I have to CTRL C to get out of it.

Last edited by Plutonian (2008-12-28 00:08:02)

R00KIE

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Re: aplay infinite loop [SOLVED]

HD Audio Controllers are always a pain to get to work, look here on the forum for similar posts, most probably you just need to add an option to your modprobe.conf to make it work.

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Plutonian

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Registered: 2008-12-05

Posts: 9

Re: aplay infinite loop [SOLVED]

I just ran alsaconf. Now there's sound, but it still loops infinitely. I hear something which sounds like "Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr" but it never gets to "ont Center"

Edit - This problem was solved with the help of jifli from the irc channel by adding options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1 to /etc/modprobe.d/sound

Last edited by Plutonian (2008-12-28 00:07:48)

fukawi2

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Re: aplay infinite loop [SOLVED]

This is what I had to do with my Pavillion DV7:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 71#p460571

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