Arch Linux

niclasc

Member

Registered: 2008-09-08

Posts: 42

After 2.6.38 upgrade I have no sound

I did a alsaconf and it doesent find any soundcards.

How to fix this?

Lone_Wolf

Administrator

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,363

Re: After 2.6.38 upgrade I have no sound

it found only 1 of my audio outputs (hdmi on the videocard, and i don't use that one).
After i cancelled alsaconf, i did alsactl store and that removed the error alsa gave on starting.

---

Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky

gard

Member

Registered: 2010-07-21

Posts: 8

Re: After 2.6.38 upgrade I have no sound

Same problem, please give detail instructions

Lone_Wolf

Administrator

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,363

Re: After 2.6.38 upgrade I have no sound

ok, this is what happened on my system :

after the lastest kernelupdate , from 2.6.37.5 to 2.6.38.2 alsa gave errors on boot and i decided to see what alsaconf reported.
alaaconf only saw 1 of my audio cards (and the one i don't use) , so i canceled alsaconf.
"aplay - l" and alsamixer did show all my my audio outputs, and sound was working.
(with alsamixer you can also switch between your sound devices).

I ran 'alsactl store'     (as root) , at next boot the errors were gone.

it's likely this only works if you already have a working configuration.

if this doesn't help you, please post the output of the following commands :

aplay -l

lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t

ls -l /dev/snd

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2011-04-17 20:24:36)

---

Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky

gard

Member

Registered: 2010-07-21

Posts: 8

Re: After 2.6.38 upgrade I have no sound

Thanks, i some have sound after update. Maybe it kernel upgrade...