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pavanky

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From: Atlanta

Registered: 2010-01-19

Posts: 8

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[SOLVED] Audio issues after upgrade (with testing)

Hi,

My system had not been upgraded in a while, mostly because the default mirror was out of sync. I recently did a pacman -Syu and the process was clean and painless.
However, I had enabled the testing repository imagining that I could be of some help to the community .

So everything for now is functional except the audio on the system.

For example on pidgin (and skype), I had to change the sound system from automatic / default to ALSA to hear the sound notifications.
But I am unable hear other people's voice while voice chatting.
Sound on Rhythmbox does not work, although it looks like it is playing the song (and I have not looked into it further).
mplayer picked up the sound without any work, but vlc, I had to choose ALSA explicitly again, to make the sound work.
Sound in flash players in the browsers just work fine.

Futher information
Desktop Manager: GNOME

$uname -a
Linux screamer 2.6.37-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 7 17:32:33 CET 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     22593  4 
snd_seq_dummy           1479  0 
snd_seq_oss            29368  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      5516  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                50594  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          5281  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_codec_realtek   295557  1 
snd_pcm_oss            39669  0 
snd_mixer_oss          17858  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_intel          21837  3 
snd_hda_codec          74609  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               6222  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                72481  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              19537  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    58938  18 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6161  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7361  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

I would appreciate any work arounds / fixes for this issue. Also would be nice to know if it is a known bug or something that I can report.

Thanks,
Pavan

Last edited by pavanky (2012-03-12 09:16:27)

ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: [SOLVED] Audio issues after upgrade (with testing)

Check out the alsa wiki. I believe you need to disable snd_pcm_oss at the very least.

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pavanky

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From: Atlanta

Registered: 2010-01-19

Posts: 8

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Re: [SOLVED] Audio issues after upgrade (with testing)

Thanks! That fixed it. Although I ended up going to the pulseaudio page too and fix other issues

pavanky

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From: Atlanta

Registered: 2010-01-19

Posts: 8

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Re: [SOLVED] Audio issues after upgrade (with testing)

Also, How can I mark the topic as solved ? (or is it something that only moderators can do ?)

ilusi0n

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Registered: 2010-06-09

Posts: 187

Re: [SOLVED] Audio issues after upgrade (with testing)

Also, How can I mark the topic as solved ? (or is it something that only moderators can do ?)

Edit your first post. Like that you can edit the title of the thread