No sound (Solved)

Mountainjew · 2010-05-27 11:48:47

So last night i was trying to get mpd working in gnome with no success. Though my sound was working normally before that. So i ended up trying to install mpd-pulse, which installed pulseaudio. It didn't work, so i removed it and the deps.

Today i wake up to no sound at all. So i booted into windows to make sure there was nothing wrong with the hardware, and it works fine in there. So, i checked all my levels with alsamixer and tried reinstalling alsa-utils etc. Still no sound, and no errors upon booting either. So i'm guessing it's probably some crap left behind by pulseaudio. So i tried removing ~/Pulse and /tmp/pulse but still not getting any sound.

Afaik i never had pulseaudio installed before, not according to my pacman log anyway.

Here's the output of lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                   52821  12 
reiserfs              198997  1 
snd_seq_dummy           1327  0 
snd_seq_oss            24415  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      4628  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                42525  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            32435  0 
snd_mixer_oss          14451  1 snd_pcm_oss
evdev                   7577  9 
snd_emu10k1           124240  2 
snd_rawmidi            15956  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec         98325  1 snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus                1086  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                60014  4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device          4637  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer              16223  3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          6137  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            2048  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep               5540  1 snd_emu10k1
snd                    48541  14 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
usbhid                 32551  0 
hid                    65525  1 usbhid
soundcore               5247  1 snd
asus_atk0110            9598  0 
thermal                11962  0 
button                  4698  0 
processor              29456  0 
nvidia              10612725  34 
i2c_core               15335  1 nvidia
k8temp                  3155  0 
edac_core              29480  0 
sg                     21723  0 
ohci_hcd               18269  0 
ehci_hcd               30010  0 
psmouse                38926  0 
rt2870sta             521127  1 
usbcore               121608  5 usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,rt2870sta
rtc_cmos                7822  0 
rtc_core               12359  1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib                 1586  1 rtc_core
jfs                   141785  2 
sd_mod                 23307  14 
sr_mod                 12867  0 
cdrom                  30002  1 sr_mod
ahci                   31761  8 
pata_atiixp             3393  1 
libata                131743  2 ahci,pata_atiixp
scsi_mod               81588  4 sg,sd_mod,sr_mod,libata

This is driving me insane, been at it about 2 hours now and almost ready to just nuke it and reinstall

Oh and i'm using an Audigy 2 ZS which has worked perfectly for years in linux.

Dunno if this has anything to do with it, but i noticed this in dmesg:

EMU10K1_Audigy 0000:03:07.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
Installing spdif_bug patch: SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350]

Last edited by Mountainjew (2010-05-27 13:49:40)

chpln · 2010-05-27 13:03:29

I'd check the output from a media player (e.g., mplayer) invoked from within a shell. Does it seem to play? Does it show anything unusual?

Mountainjew · 2010-05-27 13:29:41

Nope no errors from VLC or Rhythmbox.

Though i noticed in the volume mixer, i now have 2 devices, which i don't think i had before...

Usually i'd have my webcam or usb headset plugged in, but they're not atm, just my soundcard.

chpln · 2010-05-27 13:42:39

Try running 'alsaconf' as root and follow the prompts.

Mountainjew · 2010-05-27 13:49:25

Feck, it works...I thought i did that already

Thanks dude

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#1 2010-05-27 11:48:47

No sound (Solved)

#2 2010-05-27 13:03:29

Re: No sound (Solved)

#3 2010-05-27 13:29:41

Re: No sound (Solved)

#4 2010-05-27 13:42:39

Re: No sound (Solved)

#5 2010-05-27 13:49:25

Re: No sound (Solved)

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