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degmic71

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Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 122

Constant sound issues

I followed the ALSA wiki page just fine , and my sound was fine, but after reboot my sound seems to just break again, and I cannot understand why, I have to run alsaconf to fix it.

In sounds, I am using all alsa mixers, and for some reason when I reboot my intel card in the very last field, under mixer tracks, it changes from the Intel alsa mixer to "pcsp(alsa)". Hmmmm.  Something messed up in my rc.conf , ? if so what order to place the alsa daemon?  When I used the wiki on arch, I get audio, but it has this constant static overlay to it, its so annoying.  When I run alsaconf is seems to fix it until reboot. 

HELP!!!! Thx in advance

Relevant output: 

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
#   - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network netfs crond alsa hal networkmanager fam gdm !snd_pcsp)

[root@mikeyd-laptop ~]# lsmod|grep '^snd'
snd_seq_oss            31872  0
snd_seq_midi_event      8192  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                49968  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          8204  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            40192  0
snd_mixer_oss          16512  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0           30876  1
snd_ac97_codec        102308  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcsp               11048  0
snd_pcm                70020  4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcsp
snd_timer              21384  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    50980  12 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcsp,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc         10120  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
[root@mikeyd-laptop ~]#

[root@mikeyd-laptop ~]# ls -l /dev/snd/
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  4 2009-03-27 23:49 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 12 2009-03-27 23:49 controlC1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  3 2009-03-27 23:51 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 11 2009-03-27 23:49 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 10 2009-03-27 23:49 pcmC1D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  9 2009-03-27 23:49 pcmC1D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  8 2009-03-27 23:49 pcmC1D2c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  7 2009-03-27 23:49 pcmC1D3c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  6 2009-03-27 23:49 pcmC1D4p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  5 2009-03-27 23:49 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  2 2009-03-27 23:49 timer
[root@mikeyd-laptop ~]#

Last edited by degmic71 (2009-03-28 04:13:21)

my0pic

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2008-05-23

Posts: 206

Re: Constant sound issues

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network netfs crond alsa hal networkmanager fam gdm !snd_pcsp)

remove "!snd_pcsp" from the daemons line and place it in the modules array in rc.conf

MODULES=(!snd_pcsp)

degmic71

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Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 122

Re: Constant sound issues

Thx ill try that!

betawhh

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Registered: 2009-03-29

Posts: 8

Re: Constant sound issues

Thank. It solved my problem , too

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: Constant sound issues

DAEMONS are just simple shell scripts located under /etc/rc.d. Open or cat them to see what they do. MODULES, is kernel modules. you can see which modules you have available and their info by typing modinfo [TAB] but this might require the bash-completion package. Another way to see which kernel modules you have available is to cat /lib/modules/2.6.2?-ARCH/modules.order

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