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#1 2009-03-07 18:17:24

mike_93
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sound broken -- no sound card detected

when I try to change my sound levels I get this error:

michael@Michael's_Arch_Box:/dev/snd$ alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

also when I open XMMS or any other music player I get a 'no soundcard detected' error

any help would be great
michael


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#2 2009-03-08 16:49:17

TiborB
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Re: sound broken -- no sound card detected

Hi,
I have the  same problem, I believe it was caused by system upgrade about 10 days ago.
lspci identifies my sound cards as :
Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

If this happen I just restart the PC (once or more times) and it works. Another strange thing is that sometimes flash player in opera doesn't play sound... But this is not so big problem to me...

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#3 2009-03-08 17:09:57

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Re: sound broken -- no sound card detected

I would start with lspci to check the sound card is detected. Then I would give OSSv4 a go instead of alsa, lately it seems alsa has been causing more headaches than it should.


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#4 2009-03-08 17:23:01

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Re: sound broken -- no sound card detected

I can confirm similar problem -- my sound card works but system freezes randomly. There is bunch of things I suspected and finally decided it's sound problem. Started to happen somewhere around latest kernel update.

Edit: getting back to fallback kernel does not solve this problem so it's something that got updated with kernel. I was shocked for a several days because nobody else seemed to have similar problem.

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#5 2009-03-08 17:34:18

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Re: sound broken -- no sound card detected

mike_93 wrote:

when I try to change my sound levels I get this error:

michael@Michael's_Arch_Box:/dev/snd$ alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

also when I open XMMS or any other music player I get a 'no soundcard detected' error

any help would be great
michael

I do asume that you are a memeber of the audio group? And that you have tried alsamixer as root?


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#6 2009-03-08 18:20:42

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Re: sound broken -- no sound card detected

R00KIE wrote:

I would start with lspci to check the sound card is detected. Then I would give OSSv4 a go instead of alsa, lately it seems alsa has been causing more headaches than it should.

Oss was the only thing I have not tried. Looks like that everything works with oss instead of alsa. Looks like there is really some serious problem with alsa.


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#7 2009-03-08 20:01:07

mike_93
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Re: sound broken -- no sound card detected

I have checked the group thing and also tried alsamixer as root.
lspci gives same soundcard as TiborB seems to have been nroken by upgrade.

no time now to try OSSv4 but will sometime this week when I have time

thanks for the quick response and help


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#8 2009-03-08 20:36:23

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Re: sound broken -- no sound card detected

success!
decided to try OSSv4 followed wiki and it works now

and now... back to everything else


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#9 2009-03-13 20:09:40

getof
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Re: sound broken -- no sound card detected

I had a simmilar issue with the device (Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)) also caused by the kernel update I think.

Problem description:
-lspci lists my device, but it is not possible to play audio via alsa(no soundcard detected);
-when trying to reload the kernel module(modprobe snd_hda_intel) it is not found.

Solution:
simmilar problem: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61379
--> reinstall kernel and alsa(pacman -S kernel26 alsa-lib); reload kernelmodules

now alsa works fine again..

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#10 2009-03-14 15:06:15

mike_93
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Re: sound broken -- no sound card detected

well, OSS works for me and I don't see any disadvantage, so it'll stay that way until something goes wrong roll


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#11 2009-04-08 05:19:09

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Re: sound broken -- no sound card detected

Re-adding myself to the audio group fixed the problem for me.


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