[solved]sound issues

dncrash · 2010-03-12 18:24:08

Hello.
If I enter some applications like Audacity, Heroes of Newerth or an application I open with wine (even happened with notepad) I have sound in that application but the rest of the applications don't have it anymore. I notice this doesn't happen all the time, but it does most of the times. Also in Heroes of Newerth if I go into sound options and let the playback device be "default" it doesn't work. I have to change it to "front:card=SB,dev=0" and if i do that, only the game has sound.

I had some user permission problems but thanks to loafer they're solved now

Last edited by dncrash (2010-04-14 05:18:58)

loafer · 2010-03-12 19:33:22

What do you have in .xinitrc. It should be something like "exec ck-launch-session startxfce4"

edit: console kit takes care of auto mounting and stuff like that.

Last edited by loafer (2010-03-12 19:34:49)

dncrash · 2010-03-12 19:58:44

Right now i have "exec startxfce4"

loafer · 2010-03-12 20:01:32

dncrash wrote:

Right now i have "exec startxfce4"

change it to "exec ck-launch-session startxfce4" and see what happens, thenreport the difference.

dncrash · 2010-03-12 20:30:18

It worked Thank you so much.
So no more user problems, but can anyone please help me with the sound ?

Last edited by dncrash (2010-03-13 07:53:10)

dncrash · 2010-03-15 22:29:21

Can't anyone help with this ?
I noticed that while my sound wasn't working i opened VLC and clicked advanced settings, went to audio -> output modules -> ALSA and changed the alsa device name from "default" to "HDA ATI SB:VT1708S Analog (hw:0,0)" and that fixed the sound in VLC. But the other apps still don't work. It's like it forgets what the output device is after i open certain applications.

dncrash · 2010-04-03 22:09:37

I'm still having sound problems. I notice that some apps don't have sound until i set the output device to (hw:0,0) but then every other applications' sound stops working. This is basically the problem I'm having, can anyone help ?

TheCox · 2010-04-04 02:33:51

Try using pulseaudio. Alsa alone does a poor job of playing sound from multiple sources.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pulseaudio

lasu1 · 2010-04-04 03:45:04

By default, ALSA includes dmix which does support multiple outputs. ALSA is supposed to enable this by default, but sometimes it doesn't.

On the wiki we have a an article about it:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/All … Play_Sound

Take a look at the dmix section. It works great once its set up. The problem I had was that I found it a little confusing -- lots of trial and error. But, basically, the key is to use ~/.asoundrc and to comment at asoundconf (at least, that's what worked for me).

The problem with PulseAudio and wine, is that wine doesn't support Pulse--you need to use a patched version of wine (we have one in the AUR for 32 bit systems.) I was never able to do this successfully in 64bit. But, really, ALSA works just fine for me (no problems with multiple sounds -- I frequently have EVE online (wine), gmusicbrowser, and maybe a little flash going at once )

Good luck.

dncrash · 2010-04-14 05:18:40

Thanks for the help guys. I tried dmix but that didn't really work so I then installed pulseaudio and this seems to work ...for now.

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