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darkeye

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Registered: 2010-01-20

Posts: 16

Sound Problems ALSA

Hey there,

I can't seem to get my sound card working under Arch.

I have installed alsa and alsautils, and am using alsamixer to configure my sound.
However, even when I unmute the Master, Master M, and PCM channels, I still get no sound coming out of my card.
It is a VIA 8235 card with a VIA Technologies 1612A chipset.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

darkeye

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Registered: 2010-01-20

Posts: 16

Re: Sound Problems ALSA

Ok, I got the sound working, for the most part anyway

My main problem now is that whenever I change the song in gnome-mplayer, or make any changes whatsoever, my PCM ouput is muted, and I have to go back into alsamixer and unmute it.

Any ideas?

cesura

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From: Tallinn, Estonia

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 1,867

Re: Sound Problems ALSA

Ok, I got the sound working, for the most part anyway

My main problem now is that whenever I change the song in gnome-mplayer, or make any changes whatsoever, my PCM ouput is muted, and I have to go back into alsamixer and unmute it.

Any ideas?

Is your user in the sound group?

Try:

sudo gpasswd -a yournonrootuser audio

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Acecero

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Registered: 2008-06-21

Posts: 1,373

Re: Sound Problems ALSA

You might want to reconfigure your /etc/asound.state file by using "alsactl store" with the current alsa settings you have because I notice gnome-mplayer has a tendency to fall back to that previous configuration even with adjustment to alsamixer.

darkeye

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Registered: 2010-01-20

Posts: 16

Re: Sound Problems ALSA

Alright, I followed your advice regarding alsactl.

Here is what happens, gnome-mplayer still mutes the PCM and lowers the volume of PCM to zero when starting a new song.

I used alsactl to store my alsamixer settings, and then can be reloaded by just using the alsactl restore command.
However, I still have to do this everytime I change the song.

Is there anyway to load this command on change with the song or something like that?