You are not logged in.

#1 2009-09-17 22:32:10

robert englard
Member
Registered: 2009-09-17
Posts: 1

[SOLVED] alsa seems to be configured well but I cannot hear anything

It's my first time here so welcome and hi!

I had no big problems with Arch untill now (I've been using it for a while and I thing it's awesome) that I wouldn't handle myself; but this time is unfortunatly different.
I bought new IBM laptop (T41) and I cannot make the sound work (I don't remember any struggle while using HP).

Probable I just do or read something wrong, any ideas?

$ ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders
razem 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 09-17 23:30 snd_ac97_codec -> ../../snd_ac97_codec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 09-17 23:30 snd_intel8x0 -> ../../snd_intel8x0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 09-17 23:30 snd_intel8x0m -> ../../snd_intel8x0m
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 09-17 23:30 snd_mixer_oss -> ../../snd_mixer_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 09-17 23:30 snd_pcm -> ../../snd_pcm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 09-17 23:30 snd_pcm_oss -> ../../snd_pcm_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 09-17 23:30 snd_seq -> ../../snd_seq
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 09-17 23:30 snd_seq_device -> ../../snd_seq_device
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 09-17 23:30 snd_seq_oss -> ../../snd_seq_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 09-17 23:30 snd_timer -> ../../snd_timer
$ lsmod|grep '^snd'
snd_seq_dummy           2696  0 
snd_seq_oss            31168  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      7012  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                53744  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6768  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_intel8x0m          14192  0 
snd_intel8x0           30592  0 
snd_ac97_codec        106088  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            40352  0 
snd_mixer_oss          17540  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                73512  4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_os
snd_timer              21100  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    58436  10 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0m,sn
snd_page_alloc          8876  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
$ ls -l /dev/snd
razem 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root       80 09-17 21:45 by-path
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 10 09-17 21:45 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 13 09-17 21:45 controlC1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  9 09-17 21:45 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  8 09-17 21:59 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  7 09-17 21:45 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  6 09-17 21:45 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  5 09-17 21:45 pcmC0D3c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  4 09-17 21:45 pcmC0D4p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 12 09-17 21:45 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 11 09-17 21:45 pcmC1D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  3 09-17 21:45 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  2 09-17 21:45 timer

alsaconf doesn't help, it's not muted as well, the speakers are not broken becouse just before I install Arch they worked on Mandriva (I bought it second handed and it was already there)

post scriptum: while writing I also trying some things and now while I'm a normal user there is some problem:

/usr/share/sounds/alsa $ aplay Front_Center.wav 
aplay: main:608: audio open error: Nie ma takiego pliku ani katalogu

(Foreign language thing is "thre is no such file or directory" - I left it 'couse I'm not sure how it's actually in English.)

/usr/share/sounds/alsa # aplay Front_Left.wav 
Playing WAVE 'Front_Left.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono

Anyway there is no sound at all in both cases.
Before I had the second thing as normal user as well. However it's not so important. But it's too late at my place now for caring.

Thank you in advance.

-----------------------------------------

Well, I found that the multimedia keys (mute, volume up, down), works directly on speakers. I thought they don't work at all becouse xev hadn't seen them. Anyway - stupid thing that wasn't related to Linux.

Last edited by robert englard (2009-09-18 11:06:51)

Offline

#2 2009-09-18 14:29:18

rhasti
Member
From: Frankfurt am Main / Germany
Registered: 2009-02-18
Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] alsa seems to be configured well but I cannot hear anything

Same Problem here with snd-hda-intel and snd-usb-audio.

I use testing repo so kernel is 2.6.31-1 and alsa-lib is 1.0.21.a-1 .


--------

Have removed testing repo and have downgraded packets. Sound is working again

--------

Back to testing . Had to install kernel-headers 2.6.31 by editing PKGBUILD and then building alsa-utils again the new headers.
2.6.31 is porno smile

Last edited by rhasti (2009-09-18 16:32:18)

Offline

Board footer

Powered by FluxBB