Magically disappearing sound.....

hesperidae · 2004-11-26 16:52:24

Hey all,

Been using arch for a few months now. Not learning much because I can't seem to
break it! It just works, yay! EXCEPT---with my last --sysupgrade my sound ceased to work.

All seems to work normally as root. But as user i get suggestions to check that-1) Your soudcard is configured properly 2)You have the correct output plugin selected. 3) No other program is blocking the sound card.

I Ran alsaconf (this is how i originally set up sound..) and it seemed quite pleased, said all was well. Alas, same problem. Also, can't open my wmix in gnome unless as root.

I'm sure I just managed to hose some permissions or something, just not sure where to look.

Thanks in advance for your help!!

Hesperidae

dk · 2004-11-26 18:57:29

Here is the link to the sound section in the wiki
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sound%20%26%20Audio

Also give this a try:

# gpasswd -a username audio

Then add the following to your /etc/devfsd.conf:

REGISTER sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.users 660
REGISTER snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.users 660

hesperidae · 2004-11-26 20:21:53

OK,
I feel like an idiot. Believe it or not i did look around before posting here....

That appears to have solved the issue. I assume the upgrade had something to do with
that?
I'll keep that handy trick in my hat.

thanx
Hesperidae

Dusty · 2004-11-26 20:54:09

hesperidae wrote:

That appears to have solved the issue. I assume the upgrade had something to do with
that?

Possibly your devfsd.conf was overwritten by the default configuration when you pacman -Syu'd. To prevent that, add NoUpgrade = etc/devfsd.conf to your /etc/pacman.conf file.

Dusty

Arch Linux

#1 2004-11-26 16:52:24

Magically disappearing sound.....

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Re: Magically disappearing sound.....

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Re: Magically disappearing sound.....

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Re: Magically disappearing sound.....

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