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karantani

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From: Texas

Registered: 2010-08-15

Posts: 36

arch 64 not getting sound after i restarted my computer

hi guys i was using my computer last night and everything was fine,when i turned it on this mornig i tried to watch  a .mkv movie and i noticed i got no sound at all,i went to multimedia sstems selector and i tried all of them alsa,oss,esd,pulse and i got no sound at all,then after a while i went to media systems selector and i was playing with it al little  and sometimes not all the times when i choose "oss" the sound works,but then if i restart i get no sound at all again,can you please help me ,thanks in advance

ngoonee

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Re: arch 64 not getting sound after i restarted my computer

Read the wiki on ALSA. Or Pulseaudio. Or OSS. You don't seem to have done ANY trouble-shooting beyond "selected everything in media systems selector" which of course isn't going to help at all.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: arch 64 not getting sound after i restarted my computer

Is it a new install or were you using it for some time and everything was OK - until now?

karantani

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From: Texas

Registered: 2010-08-15

Posts: 36

Re: arch 64 not getting sound after i restarted my computer

i've been using it for like 3 months since i reintalled everything,like i said everuthing was fine,i had no problem at all,previously to to this system reinstallation i used it for like about a year with no complaints,the reason why i reinstalled it was becouse i replaced my harddrive,i upgraded some packages this morning,i had to go out and when i came back there was no sound

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: arch 64 not getting sound after i restarted my computer

i've been using it for like 3 months since i reintalled everything,like i said everuthing was fine,i had no problem at all,previously to to this system reinstallation i used it for like about a year with no complaints,the reason why i reinstalled it was becouse i replaced my harddrive,i upgraded some packages this morning,i had to go out and when i came back there was no sound

Ah, so it may be related to the recent upgrade rather than misconfiguration. Please post what packages did you update.
Check if the sliders in alsamixer (or whatever you're using) are unmuted.

Last edited by karol (2010-11-28 00:17:44)

karantani

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From: Texas

Registered: 2010-08-15

Posts: 36

Re: arch 64 not getting sound after i restarted my computer

to be honest i don't remember exactely the name of the packages but i'll try to be a clear as possible 
gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.25-2 ,gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.25-2,libcanberra 0.26-2,vlc 1.1.5-2,alsa-plugins 1.0.23-2,gnome-settings-daemon 2.32.1-2

those are some of the packages i remember i upgraded,after that my sound was gone sorry i don't remember all of the packages i upgraded,i almos forgot i tried reinstalling the packages with no success ,i almost forgot i also checked alsa mixer and everything seems to be fine

Last edited by karantani (2010-11-28 00:39:05)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: arch 64 not getting sound after i restarted my computer

You say you lose the sound after the restart - restart and check again if the channels aren't muted. Maybe the settings aren't saved for some reason.
What app are you using to test the sound - vlc?

less /var/log/pacman.log

should help you with the package names - the recently updated are at the end (press Shift-g to jump to the end of the file).

karantani

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From: Texas

Registered: 2010-08-15

Posts: 36

Re: arch 64 not getting sound after i restarted my computer

ok,this is wha i got from the command line

2010-11-27 08:44] Running '/usr/bin/pacman-color -Syu'
[2010-11-27 08:44] synchronizing package lists
[2010-11-27 08:44] starting full system upgrade
[2010-11-27 08:44] upgraded libvpx (0.9.5-1 -> 0.9.5-2)
[2010-11-27 08:44] upgraded pcre (8.10-1 -> 8.10-2)
[2010-11-27 10:50] Running '/usr/bin/pacman-color -Syu'
[2010-11-27 10:50] synchronizing package lists
[2010-11-27 10:50] starting full system upgrade
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded alsa-plugins (1.0.23-1 -> 1.0.23-2)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded gstreamer0.10-good (0.10.25-1 -> 0.10.25-2)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded gstreamer0.10-good-plugins (0.10.25-1 -> 0.10.25-2)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded libcanberra (0.25-1 -> 0.26-2)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded gnome-media (2.32.0-1 -> 2.32.0-2)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded gnome-settings-daemon (2.32.1-1 -> 2.32.1-2)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded libao (1.0.0-2 -> 1.0.0-5)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded libasyncns (0.8-2 -> 0.8-3)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded libxml2 (2.7.7-2 -> 2.7.8-1)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded openal (1.12.854-1 -> 1.12.854-2)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded phonon-gstreamer (4.4.2-2 -> 4.4.3-1)
[2010-11-27 10:51] installed libpulse (0.9.22-1)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded phonon (4.4.2-2 -> 4.4.3-1)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded rtkit (0.9-1 -> 0.9-2)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded pulseaudio (0.9.21-13 -> 0.9.22-1)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded sdl (1.2.14-5 -> 1.2.14-6)
[2010-11-27 10:51] upgraded vlc (1.1.5-1 -> 1.1.5-2)
[2010-11-27 11:06] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-milio/PKGDEST.bjE/codecs64-20071007-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2010-11-27 11:06] installed codecs64 (20071007-1)
[2010-11-27 11:32] Running 'pacman -Rs codecs64'
[2010-11-27 11:33] removed codecs64 (20071007-1)
[2010-11-27 11:37] Running 'pacman -S extra/alsa-utils'
[2010-11-27 11:37] upgraded alsa-utils (1.0.23-3 -> 1.0.23-3)
[2010-11-27 11:40] Running 'pacman -S extra/pulseaudio-alsa extra/alsa-firmware'
[2010-11-27 11:41] installed pulseaudio-alsa (1-2)
[2010-11-27 11:41] installed alsa-firmware (1.0.23-1)
[2010-11-27 12:44] Running '/usr/bin/pacman-color -Syu'
[2010-11-27 12:44] synchronizing package lists
[2010-11-27 12:44] starting full system upgrade
[2010-11-27 14:54] Running '/usr/bin/pacman-color -Syu'
[2010-11-27 14:54] synchronizing package lists
[2010-11-27 14:54] starting full system upgrade
[2010-11-27 16:11] Running 'pacman -S extra/alsa-plugins'
[2010-11-27 16:11] upgraded alsa-plugins (1.0.23-2 -> 1.0.23-2)
[2010-11-27 16:12] Running 'pacman -S extra/gstreamer0.10-good extra/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins'
[2010-11-27 16:12] upgraded gstreamer0.10-good (0.10.25-2 -> 0.10.25-2)
[2010-11-27 16:12] upgraded gstreamer0.10-good-plugins (0.10.25-2 -> 0.10.25-2)
[2010-11-27 16:13] Running 'pacman -S extra/libcanberra'
[2010-11-27 16:13] upgraded libcanberra (0.26-2 -> 0.26-2)
[2010-11-27 16:13] Running 'pacman -S extra/phonon-vlc'
[2010-11-27 16:15] Running 'pacman -S extra/vlc'
[2010-11-27 16:15] upgraded vlc (1.1.5-2 -> 1.1.5-2)
[2010-11-27 16:18] Running 'pacman -S extra/gnome-settings-daemon'
[2010-11-27 16:18] upgraded gnome-settings-daemon (2.32.1-2 -> 2.32.1-2)
[2010-11-27 16:26] Running 'pacman -S extra/alsa-lib'
[2010-11-27 16:26] upgraded alsa-lib (1.0.23-2 -> 1.0.23-2)
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karantani

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From: Texas

Registered: 2010-08-15

Posts: 36

Re: arch 64 not getting sound after i restarted my computer

ok,i just want to let you know what happened,but i removed alsa-utils

[2010-11-27 23:08] Running 'pacman -Rs alsa-utils'
[2010-11-27 23:09] removed alsa-utils (1.0.23-3)
[2010-11-27 23:09] removed dialog (1.1_20100428-2)
(END)

and everything seems to be ok now ,i got sound i soon as i rebooted my computer but i still don't know what the problem was,i still got alsa in the daemon list,should i remove it from there?