Arch Linux

strawman

Member

From: Campbell River BC Canada

Registered: 2005-01-16

Posts: 5

sound setup woes [solved]

hi,
trying to set up sound on a laptop.  the required module for my soundcard( ess maestro1978) is the snd-es1968; when i try to load it everything freezes and i have to do a hard reboot.
i have followed alsa setup in the wiki, but there is no sound device listed in /dev/
any tips on how to get sound.  sound works fine with simplymepis, so it should work with arch,
thanks

jerem

Member

From: France

Registered: 2005-01-15

Posts: 310

Re: sound setup woes [solved]

Try this :

pacman -S alsa-driver
pacman -S alsa-lib
pacman -S alsa-utils

Then load your module and :
amixer set Master unmute
amixer set PCM unmute
alsamixer
alsactl store

Add

alsactl restore

to your rc.local

strawman

Member

From: Campbell River BC Canada

Registered: 2005-01-16

Posts: 5

Re: sound setup woes [solved]

hi,
finally got sound up and running!
i  had to un-install kernel26 and install kernel26mm and then followed the alsa procedure and it worked.
thanks!

Gullible Jones

Member

Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: sound setup woes [solved]

Hmmm interesting... Maybe my sound problems (see "Files do not play!" thread in this forum) have to do with the kernel?

strawman

Member

From: Campbell River BC Canada

Registered: 2005-01-16

Posts: 5

Re: sound setup woes [solved]

maybe,
it worked for me and i'm glad cause it was getting very frustrating not being able to have sound.
i un-installed 26 and then installed kernel26mm and then changed grub to reflect new kernel.
i have an older laptop and kernel26mm works and the hotplug daemon now works also.