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aaron.kilbride

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 65

external laptop volume controls

so i recently did a pacman -Syu and something caused my external volume controls to quit working...
i don't know which program that controls this...
but alsa-utils was one of the things updated, does anyone know if this is the problem?
any sugestions on how the get those controls recognized?
i looked in the wiki and tried to downgrade alsa-utils to the previous version in my cache, but...
i get this error:

[aaron@Arch ~]$ sudo pacman -U alsa-lib-1.0.21.a-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
loading package data...
error: 'alsa-lib-1.0.21.a-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': cannot open package file

any ideas?

chpln

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-09-17

Posts: 361

Re: external laptop volume controls

While it could be related to alsa, the volume controls on laptops I've seen operate at a lower level.  What is the model of the laptop you are using?

When using 'pacman -U' you need to provide the path to the package (I'm assuming the package is not in your home directory).  So it would probably be:

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/alsa-lib-1.0.21.a-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

aaron.kilbride

Member

Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 65

Re: external laptop volume controls

i have an hp dv4t
and i will try that upgrade.
thanks for the tip!:lol:

yeah that was not the problem...
shoul i just keep rolling back packages until i find the one that broke it?

Last edited by aaron.kilbride (2010-01-07 03:26:37)