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neypo

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Registered: 2005-02-02

Posts: 12

No sound! :(

Alright, heres my rundown:

I installed Arch0.7 base. Installed xorg and xfce4 along with various others (thunderbird, firefox, gaim etc).

My problem is I have no sound. I have followed the wiki and done the following:

Pacman -Sy alsa-utils alsa-lib

alsaconf (found sound card so i selected it)

amixer set Matser 100 unmute
amixer set PCM 100 unmute

gpasswd -a travis audio optical

yet my sound still doesent work

Heres the output of my lsmod:

http://obscurethoughts.net/temp/blah

phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: No sound! :(

it could be the fault of the app you're using... did you try something like "aplay /path/to/a/sound.wav"

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apeiro

Daddy

From: Victoria, BC, Canada

Registered: 2002-08-12

Posts: 771

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Re: No sound! :(

How about a little more info...

as your regular user:

$ id
$ ls -l /dev/snd /dev/sound

neypo

Member

Registered: 2005-02-02

Posts: 12

Re: No sound! :(

Alright, I managed to get sound working but every time i have to run alsaconf ??? anyway I can make it do it automatically so I dont have to do it every time i reboot?

Also not sure If I should post this in a new topic or what, but every time I try to save a file to /home/travis say with gphpedit or gedit it gives me this error (NOTE: I run XFCE4)

"Unable to save 'test'.

This may be due to incorrect permissions or being out of space on the drive.

(test being the filename). The user name is "travis". I have tried:

chown -R travis:users /home/travis
and
chmod -R 777 /home/travis

Also, if I try  to open a file to read (IE in gphpedit it says file now found when it IS there, or in redit says filename is invalid yet ive i open it in xterm or nano it works). I cannto read nor save files to my /home/travis dir. I can use mkdir from the terminal and it works and the like, just not through apps like gedit, ideas? Thanks[/b]

Luis Q. R.

Member

Registered: 2003-02-20

Posts: 106

Re: No sound! :(

In the installation docs you were told to add this lines to /etc/devfsd.conf:

# Permissions for sound devices
REGISTER    sound/.*    PERMISSIONS    root.audio 660
REGISTER    snd/.*    PERMISSIONS    root.audio 660

Did it solve the problem, or do I have to look further?