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Polygon

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Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 28

no sound with pulseaudio after install

I just installed arch, and followed the guide (except for the part about esd drop in and system-wide pulseaudio) and i get no sound. With the pulse audio volume control its moving like there is sound playing, but i still hear nothing, and ive tried all the available devices, made sure they were not muted in alsa mixer....i'm at a loss on whats going on, pulse has worked before on ubuntu and other distros fine...

Last edited by Polygon (2009-06-06 18:17:45)

Polygon

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Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 28

Re: no sound with pulseaudio after install

and as an update, here is my sound card:

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:3a3e]

i have also tried blacklisting snd_pcsp, and that doesn't work.

EDIT: solved it. Turns out you have to run the command

alsamixer -c 0

to get alsamixer to actually change the sound devices of the card instead of pulseaudio master channel. There, i just unmuted everything and it magically works

BUT

now the sound is stuttering pretty horribly and when i listen to music with VLC, its pretty much unbearable. I think its even speeding up the music as well......any ideas on how to fix this?

my messages.log file is filled with this:

Jun  6 10:58:31 Humboldti pulseaudio[5545]: alsa-source.c: Increasing minimal latency to 1.00 ms
Jun  6 10:58:38 Humboldti pulseaudio[5545]: alsa-source.c: Increasing minimal latency to 2.00 ms
Jun  6 10:58:40 Humboldti pulseaudio[5545]: alsa-source.c: Increasing minimal latency to 4.00 ms
Jun  6 10:58:43 Humboldti pulseaudio[5545]: alsa-source.c: Increasing minimal latency to 8.00 ms
Jun  6 10:58:47 Humboldti pulseaudio[5545]: alsa-source.c: Increasing minimal latency to 16.00 ms
Jun  6 10:58:50 Humboldti pulseaudio[5545]: alsa-source.c: Increasing minimal latency to 26.00 ms
Jun  6 10:58:51 Humboldti pulseaudio[5545]: alsa-source.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 15.99 ms
Jun  6 10:59:00 Humboldti pulseaudio[5545]: alsa-source.c: Increasing minimal latency to 36.00 ms
Jun  6 10:59:31 Humboldti pulseaudio[5545]: alsa-source.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 25.99 ms
Jun  6 11:00:19 Humboldti pulseaudio[5545]: alsa-source.c: Increasing minimal latency to 46.00 ms
Jun  6 11:00:19 Humboldti pulseaudio[5545]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing minimal latency to 56.00 ms
Jun  6 11:00:35 Humboldti pulseaudio[5545]: alsa-source.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 35.99 ms

Jun  6 11:09:37 Humboldti pulseaudio[5545]: alsa-source.c: Increasing minimal latency to 56.00 ms
Jun  6 11:10:08 Humboldti pulseaudio[5545]: alsa-source.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 45.99 ms

Last edited by Polygon (2009-06-06 18:23:15)

jduped

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From: Canada

Registered: 2009-03-12

Posts: 58

Re: no sound with pulseaudio after install

I found the same thing happened with my attempt at pulse audio I'm going to try ESD for now maybe I'll get better results

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