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chrisn2323

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Registered: 2008-08-23

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alsa help

I have a

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)

I followed this:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALSA

used alsaconf and made the changes to modprobe.conf (I dont even have a pc speaker).  I also added @alsa to my daemons in rc.conf
then I unmuted my master and pcm channels

My audio has 7.1 hd audio and I have 2.1 speakers

but the problem is, there's no audio; please help

viga

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Registered: 2007-06-12

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Re: alsa help

Does alsaconf recognizes your card?  run alsamixer and be sure your audio is on

chrisn2323

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Registered: 2008-08-23

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Re: alsa help

yes it does

ralvez

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Re: alsa help

Try adding: MODULES=(!snd_pcsp)
The fact that you do not have a  pcspeaker does not mean the kernel will not load the module by default, it just does.

Hope this helps.

R.

Last edited by ralvez (2009-01-17 16:49:49)

chrisn2323

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Registered: 2008-08-23

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Re: alsa help

it wasn't even on that line so I'm not sure that is the problem but I'll try it and reboot

additional info

bash-3.2# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT1708B Analog [VT1708B Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/2
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1

edit: didn't work

Last edited by chrisn2323 (2009-01-17 17:02:12)

ralvez

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Re: alsa help

This is what I do, usually, to set up Alsa.

0. make sure you add yourself to the audio group
1. insall alsa (pacman -S alsa-lib alsa-oss alsa-utils alsaplayer gstreamer0.10-alsa alsa-plugins )
2. run "alsaconf" to detect and configure your audio card.
3. at a console type: alsamixer -->  use it to adjust volume (to start make everything at lest 60%)
4. aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav  --> Test that sound works
5. issue "alsactl store"  --> Save Settings (as root)
6. add alsa to the daemons line (/etc/rc.conf)

Have you done all that?

If you did, what happened when you run the audio test?

R.

chrisn2323

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Registered: 2008-08-23

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Re: alsa help

o cool it works

dont know why it didn't before.  Maybe those extra packages helped.

ralvez

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Re: alsa help

Glad to hear.
Please close the thread ( add [SOLVED] to the original title )so other people looking for solutions to similar problems will be able to use it as a reference.

R.