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BryanY

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Registered: 2004-08-01

Posts: 30

ALSA problems

I went through the tutorial on how to setup udev and everything, but I still have to run alsaconf everytime I boot up in order to get the sound to work.  Modprobe.conf looks okay, so do you guys have any ideas about what i need to do so that my sound works without having to run alsaconf each time?

Also,  I'm typically a GNOME user, but I've been trying KDE lately.  It seems that KDE ties up the sound system so that only K apps work properly with sound.  Apps like Xine and Rythmbox can't play sound at all.

TheRaginAsian

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From: Brooklyn MI

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 70

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Re: ALSA problems

I followed some of the Sound Troubleshooting in the UDev Wiki Document:
http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/UdevHowTo

Told me to add these modules to rc.conf

snd-card-0 snd-pcm-oss

haven't had to run alsaconf since. Hope that helps.

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: ALSA problems

Maybe your sound is just muted? Do you use the alsamixer script?

Personally, I don't have any problems with sounds in KDE. You could tinker a bit with a sound system in the control center.

jerem

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From: France

Registered: 2005-01-15

Posts: 310

Re: ALSA problems

Run a root terminal and do a :

amixer set Master unmute
amixer set PCM unmute
alsamixer (set the volume you want)
alsactl store
echo "alsactl restore" >> /etc/rc.local