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hofa

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 25

pulsaudio update and alsa

Hi, I've been using arch for a little over 2 weeks now and I really like it. My system is far from complete, but I'm working on it.
Amongst others, I got pulseaudio working, but today I updated to version 0.9.14-1 and my output device is gone and I have no clue how to get it back.

These are the packages that have been updated today

klibc-1.5.15-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
klibc-kbd-1.15.20080312-8-i686.pkg.tar.gz
klibc-extras-2.5-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
kernel26-2.6.28-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz
pulseaudio-0.9.14-1.pkg.tar.gz
module-init-tools-3.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
nvidia-utils-180.22-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
consolekit-0.3.0-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-1.pkg.tar.gz
man-pages-3.16-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
libatomic_ops-1.2-1.pkg.tar.gz
klibc-udev-135-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
nvidia-180.22-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
intltool-0.40.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
klibc-module-init-tools-3.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
mkinitcpio-0.5.20-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

And as you can see, I only have the 'null' output

This is my /etc/asound.conf

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

There's no problem running pulseaudio, but I can't connect it to alsa...

hofa

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 25

Re: pulsaudio update and alsa

bump?

hofa

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 25

Re: pulsaudio update and alsa

I was fooling around with pacmd and I came to the conclusion that pulseaudio won't load the module 'module-alsa-sink'. I think if this works, my problem is solved.

hofa

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 25

Re: pulsaudio update and alsa

I got this out of my logs:

Jan 17 15:14:05 kasparov pulseaudio[30096]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: No such file or directory
Jan 17 15:14:05 kasparov pulseaudio[30096]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_8086_27d8_alsa_playback_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed.
Jan 17 15:14:05 kasparov pulseaudio[30096]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: No such file or directory
Jan 17 15:14:05 kasparov pulseaudio[30096]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device_id=0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_8086_27d8_alsa_capture_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed.

hofa

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 25

Re: pulsaudio update and alsa

Thank you all for your help

I fixed by uncommenting the load-module module-alsa-sink and load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:0,0.
To put it easy: hal didn't do his job right...

hofa

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 25

Re: pulsaudio update and alsa

Ok, apparantly it was an other issue, it's not working anymore...

damjan

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Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 452

Re: pulsaudio update and alsa

cat /proc/asound/devices, do you even have the sound device working?

hofa

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 25

Re: pulsaudio update and alsa

This is what I get

[ hofa@kasparov ~ ] 
[ $> cat /proc/asound/devices 
  2:        : timer
  3:        : sequencer
  4: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
  5: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
  6: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
  7: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent
  8: [ 0]   : control

hofa

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 25

Re: pulsaudio update and alsa

Ok, I just threw everything of my computer that had anything to do with pulseaudio (and also alsa-plugins) and reinstalled it, starting with alsa. Now everything works...