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shaurz

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Registered: 2004-02-02

Posts: 358

No sound after update (Realtek ALC888 HDA)

Recent update has broken sound on my machine (Realtek ALC888). Never had problems before, it always "just worked". Drivers appear to be loaded, ALSA recognises it. When I try to play a playlist in XMMS, it skips through all the files without attempting to play them but doesn't report any errors. Sound in other programs is silent, all volumes are up and unmuted in alsamixer.

Last edited by shaurz (2009-11-27 09:50:08)

cliffbreaker

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From: Tiraspol, Transnistria

Registered: 2008-11-23

Posts: 52

Re: No sound after update (Realtek ALC888 HDA)

Maybe your audio codecs got messed up, try reinstall gstreamer, xine or whatever you use

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shaurz

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Registered: 2004-02-02

Posts: 358

Re: No sound after update (Realtek ALC888 HDA)

I don't think that's the problem. It affected all applications (Firefox, Flash, XMMS, Audacious, Quod Libet, VLC, etc.)

brianhanna

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Registered: 2009-10-30

Posts: 157

Re: No sound after update (Realtek ALC888 HDA)

make sure your user is in the 'audio' group.  "gpasswd -a username audio"

This happened to me a week or two ago and that fixed it.

shaurz

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Registered: 2004-02-02

Posts: 358

Re: No sound after update (Realtek ALC888 HDA)

I was already in the audio group, by I readded and logged in again to make sure. No luck. Root cannot play audio either, so it's not a permissions problem.

shaurz

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Registered: 2004-02-02

Posts: 358

Re: No sound after update (Realtek ALC888 HDA)

It's a kernel problem. I downgraded from 2.6.31.6 to 2.6.31.5 and I have sound back. XMMS seems to have a different problem, but all the other apps play audio.