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varaahan

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From: Chennai , India

Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 145

How to install alsa ?

Tried pacman -Ss alsa but still alsa is not installed.

The o/p is:

bash-3.2# pacman -Ss alsa
extra/alsa-lib 1.0.16-1
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
extra/alsa-oss 1.0.15-1
    OSS compatibility library
extra/alsa-utils 1.0.16-1
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
extra/alsaplayer 0.99.80-1
    A heavily multi-threaded PCM player that tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit.
extra/gnome-alsamixer 0.9.6-2
    Gnome ALSA mixer
extra/gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.7-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugins (gst-plugins-bad)
extra/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.20-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base Plugins (gst-plugins-base)
extra/gtick 0.4.1-1
    GTick is a metronome application supporting different meters (1/1, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and more) and speeds
    ranging from 10 to 1000 bpm. It utilizes GTK+ and OSS (ALSA compatible).
extra/wmix 3.1-2
    Dockapp mixer for OSS or ALSA
community/aconnectgui 0.9.0rc2.1-1
    A graphical ALSA sequencer connection manager
community/alsa-plugins 1.0.16-1
    Extra alsa plugins
community/balsa 2.3.24-1
    An e-mail client for GNOME
community/bse-alsa 0.7.1-3
    The Bedevilled Sound Engine, BEAST's core library (ALSA version)
community/lash 0.5.4-1
    A session management system for JACK and ALSA
bash-3.2#

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fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: How to install alsa ?

did you try pacman -Q
to see if it's installed? (i guess you could also do pacman -Q | grep alsa)
if it's installed, have you added yourself to the audio group?

edit: check this, if you haven't yet - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALSA

Last edited by fuscia (2008-07-14 15:30:00)

synorgy

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Registered: 2005-07-11

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Re: How to install alsa ?

The pacman option 's' searches for the specified terms, so 'pacman -Ss alsa' searches for the term 'alsa' - it doesn't install anything.

If you haven't sync'd today, try 'pacman -Sy alsa-lib alsa-utils'. If you have sync'd - try 'pacman -S alsa-lib alsa-utils'

You can get a rundown on the pacman options with 'man pacman', and you can look here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALSA for more info.

EDIT: Too slow...

Last edited by synorgy (2008-07-14 15:31:22)

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Misfit138

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: How to install alsa ?

Alsa is in the kernel..
The userspace utilities can be found in the alsa-utils package.

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Acecero

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Registered: 2008-06-21

Posts: 1,373

Re: How to install alsa ?

I think your are looking the yaourt -Ss feature to see "if it's [installed]?" I'm assuming you already installed alsa but you want to see if you have done so. (I think) your thread title was misleading...

Last edited by Acecero (2008-07-14 15:50:21)

Nognir

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Registered: 2009-07-25

Posts: 14

Re: How to install alsa ?

Well, I'm trying to get alsa back in the system, got tired of OSS4 which there's no volume mixer for in LXDE and e17, my major issues atm. Is there a workaround for these? If not, how do I install alsa back? I gave it a try but it wouldn't detect any soundcard

sHyLoCk

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Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: How to install alsa ?

pacman -S alsa-lib alsa-utils

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Nognir

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Registered: 2009-07-25

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Re: How to install alsa ?

How do I config back alsa, that's the question...

windtalker

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 220

Re: How to install alsa ?

alsaconfig

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALSA

Nognir

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Registered: 2009-07-25

Posts: 14

Re: How to install alsa ?

Tried that, it refuses to detect the sound card as I said above, hence no module is loaded. Anyone who successfully migrated back from oss4 to alsa?

windtalker

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 220

Re: How to install alsa ?

From the wiki:

You can assume that udev will autodetect your sound properly, including the OSS compatibility modules. You can check this with the command:

$ lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t

You might also want to check the directory /dev/snd for the right device files:
If you have at least the devices controlC0 and pcmC0D0p or similar, then your sound modules have been detected and loaded properly.

If this is not the case, your sound modules have not been detected properly.
If you want any help on IRC or the forums, please post the output of the above commands.
To solve this, you can try loading the modules manually:

     *  Locate the module for your soundcard: ALSA Soundcard Matrix The module will be prefixed with 'snd-' (for example: 'snd-via82xx').
    * Load modules:

# modprobe snd-NAME-OF-MODULE
# modprobe snd-pcm-oss

    * Check for the device files in /dev/snd (see above) and/or try if alsamixer or amixer have reasonable output.
    * Add snd-NAME-OF-MODULE and snd-pcm-oss to the list of MODULES in /etc/rc.conf to ensure they are loaded next time (make sure snd-NAME-OF-MODULE is before snd-pcm-oss).

Unmute the channels and test........

Nognir

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Registered: 2009-07-25

Posts: 14

Re: How to install alsa ?

From the wiki:

You can assume that udev will autodetect your sound properly, including the OSS compatibility modules. You can check this with the command:

$ lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t

# lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t
#

You might also want to check the directory /dev/snd for the right device files:
If you have at least the devices controlC0 and pcmC0D0p or similar, then your sound modules have been detected and loaded properly.

If this is not the case, your sound modules have not been detected properly.

# cd /dev/snd
-bash: cd: /dev/snd: No such file or directory

If you want any help on IRC or the forums, please post the output of the above commands.
To solve this, you can try loading the modules manually:

     *  Locate the module for your soundcard: ALSA Soundcard Matrix The module will be prefixed with 'snd-' (for example: 'snd-via82xx').
    * Load modules:

# modprobe snd-NAME-OF-MODULE
# modprobe snd-pcm-oss

    * Check for the device files in /dev/snd (see above) and/or try if alsamixer or amixer have reasonable output.
    * Add snd-NAME-OF-MODULE and snd-pcm-oss to the list of MODULES in /etc/rc.conf to ensure they are loaded next time (make sure snd-NAME-OF-MODULE is before snd-pcm-oss).

Unmute the channels and test........

#modprobe snd-hda-intel
FATAL:Module snd_hda_intel not found.
#modprobe snd-pcm-oss
FATAL:Module snd_pcm_oss not found.

Any suggestions?

sHyLoCk

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Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: How to install alsa ?

# cd /dev/snd
-bash: cd: /dev/snd: No such file or directory

That's scary. What does it say when you install alsa-lib and alsa-utils?

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Nognir

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Registered: 2009-07-25

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Re: How to install alsa ?

Actually a lad in the irc helped out, all I had to do was remove oss4, reinstall the kernel and then reboot, loading the proper daemons