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#1 2011-02-15 17:39:28

egb
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[SOLVED] Can't get sound to work.

Hello, I installed archlinux a few days ago, I love it!
But I can't get sound to work.

I followed the alsa archwiki, but I still couldn't get it work.
I'm a real noob.

Someone please help. sad

Last edited by egb (2011-02-16 22:45:12)

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#2 2011-02-15 17:45:27

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get sound to work.

please post some information about your sound card or if you get any errors. What steps are you having problem with specifically.


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#3 2011-02-15 17:50:30

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get sound to work.

When I do "sudo alsaconf" I see 3 sounds cards:

hda-intel  ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
hda-intel  ATI Technologies Inc RV710/7130
legacy      Probe legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips

The step I'm having problems with is when I'm going to unmute the master and the PCM, I can only see a Master track, and it's already unmuted. And when I press F6 I can only see (default).

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#4 2011-02-15 17:52:06

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get sound to work.

why go for alsaconf? did alsamixer (run as your user) not work for you?

Try this: as your user NOT root

 alsamixer

This will display all the mixers and you can see which one is muted. Try unmuting all of them and see if that helps


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#5 2011-02-15 18:16:20

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get sound to work.

I've been running alsamixer as not root, since I can't run alsamixer as root.
(edit: Whoops, I'm sorry, the above isn't right.)

When I run alsaconf as my user it says, "You must be root to use this script."
And if I do "gpasswd -a username audio"
It still won't work as nonroot.

Anyway, when I run it as root I see 1 track.

One of my friends that use archlinux tried helping me and said I should go for alsaconf.

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#6 2011-02-15 18:33:07

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get sound to work.

Inxsible wrote:

Try this: as your user NOT root

 alsamixer

why not? i use alsamixer as root to set all "globally". and "alsactl store" after that.

egb - make also sure you added yourself to audio group. smile

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#7 2011-02-15 18:44:49

egb
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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get sound to work.

JokerBoy wrote:
Inxsible wrote:

Try this: as your user NOT root

 alsamixer

why not? i use alsamixer as root to set all "globally". and "alsactl store" after that.

egb - make also sure you added yourself to audio group. smile

yeah, I did that some time ago smile

edit: oh and I get this when I do the "alsactl store":
alsactl: save_state:1504: No soundcards found...

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#8 2011-02-15 19:52:40

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get sound to work.

Have you perhaps got pulseaudio? If so, install pavucontrol and unmute your sound...


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#9 2011-02-16 10:20:38

egb
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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get sound to work.

toad wrote:

Have you perhaps got pulseaudio? If so, install pavucontrol and unmute your sound...

Yeah, I got pulseaudio. But everything that can be unmuted is unmuted. (in pavucontrol of course)
In pavucontrol > Output Devices there is only a "Dummy Output", and in Playback there's a "System Sounds".
If I go to Configuration there, it says "No cards available for configuration"

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#10 2011-02-16 14:59:43

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get sound to work.

Alsamixer doesn't work if you have pulseaudio installed. I'm not sure that would work, but have you already installed pulseaudio-alsa? Also, if you uninstall pulseaudio does the sound card still not work? (sorry for my english)

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#11 2011-02-16 16:15:35

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get sound to work.

Do you need pulseaudio for anything specific? Otherwise, I'd recommend you get rid of it.

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#12 2011-02-16 18:25:23

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get sound to work.

Ahh.. I found out what the problem was, haha.
I wrote "sound" instead for "alsa" in my DAEMONS array.

Anyway, thanks everybody for helping me. smile

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