[Solved] No sound after upgrade

PhotonX · 2011-08-12 12:14:23

After an upgrade I get no sound out of my speakers. Following packages have been upgraded:

[2011-08-11 09:38] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2011-08-11 09:38] synchronizing package lists
[2011-08-11 09:39] Running 'pacman -S testing/filesystem testing/dash testing/wget extra/gstreamer0.10-good extra/imagemagick extra/gstreamer0.10-base extra/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins extra/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins extra/flac extra/libogg extra/libisofs extra/ghostscript extra/libburn'
[2011-08-11 09:39] warning: /etc/fstab installed as /etc/fstab.pacnew
[2011-08-11 09:39] upgraded filesystem (2011.04-1 -> 2011.08-1)
[2011-08-11 09:39] upgraded dash (0.5.7-1 -> 0.5.7-2)
[2011-08-11 09:39] upgraded wget (1.12-7 -> 1.13-1)
[2011-08-11 09:39] upgraded gstreamer0.10-base (0.10.34-1 -> 0.10.35-1)
[2011-08-11 09:39] upgraded gstreamer0.10-good (0.10.29-1 -> 0.10.30-1)
[2011-08-11 09:39] upgraded imagemagick (6.7.1.0-1 -> 6.7.1.3-1)
[2011-08-11 09:39] upgraded gstreamer0.10-base-plugins (0.10.34-1 -> 0.10.35-1)
[2011-08-11 09:39] upgraded libogg (1.2.2-1 -> 1.3.0-1)
[2011-08-11 09:39] upgraded flac (1.2.1-2 -> 1.2.1-3)
[2011-08-11 09:39] upgraded gstreamer0.10-good-plugins (0.10.29-1 -> 0.10.30-1)
[2011-08-11 09:39] upgraded libisofs (1.1.2-1 -> 1.1.4-1)
[2011-08-11 09:39] upgraded ghostscript (9.02-2 -> 9.04-2)
[2011-08-11 09:39] upgraded libburn (1.1.0.pl01-1 -> 1.1.4-1)
[2011-08-11 09:40] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-photon-new/PKGDEST.JIQ/flashplugin-beta-11.0.1.98-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2011-08-11 09:40] upgraded flashplugin-beta (11.0.1.60-2 -> 11.0.1.98-1)
[2011-08-11 09:41] Running 'pacman -R esound'
[2011-08-11 09:41] removed esound (0.2.41-2)
[2011-08-11 09:41] Running 'pacman -R audiofile'
[2011-08-11 09:41] removed audiofile (0.2.7-1)

Concerning the last lines: I removed esound and audiofile because pacman reported that it isn't used by any package any more. Maybe also interesting: I still have kernel 2.6.39 installed since I had some issues with 3.0. Maybe something has been changed to work with 3.0 and is broken with 2.6 now?

I don't really know how to start troubleshooting. speaker-test -c 2 doesn't produce any sound. Restarting alsa seems succesfull but doesn't make the sound appear, too. The loaded modules seem fine, too:

$ lsmod |grep snd
snd_mpu401              3824  0 
snd_cs4236             22423  0 
snd_emu10k1           121545  1 
snd_wavefront          28370  0 
snd_intel8x0           22404  1 
snd_wss_lib            18084  2 snd_cs4236,snd_wavefront
snd_ac97_codec         90029  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0
snd_opl3_lib            7322  2 snd_cs4236,snd_wavefront
snd_mpu401_uart         4951  3 snd_mpu401,snd_cs4236,snd_wavefront
ac97_bus                 850  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_util_mem            1812  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm                60311  5 snd_cs4236,snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0,snd_wss_lib,snd_ac97_codec
snd_rawmidi            15295  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_wavefront,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          4388  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer              15542  4 snd_emu10k1,snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep               4919  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_wavefront,snd_opl3_lib
snd                    43399  18 snd_mpu401,snd_cs4236,snd_emu10k1,snd_wavefront,snd_intel8x0,snd_wss_lib,snd_ac97_codec,snd_opl3_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore               5018  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          5909  4 snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm

Concerning the hardware: The motherboard has an integrated sound chip but it isn't used (or it shouldn't be), the speakers are connected to an Audigy 2ZS PCI card, whose module (snd_emu10k1 as reported by alsaconf) seems to be loaded. Btw, running alsaconf didn't solve the problem, too.

Thanks in advance for any advice,
PhotonX

Solved: Problem disappeared by itself after another update (though no sound related packages were touched this time).

Last edited by PhotonX (2011-08-13 06:11:22)

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#1 2011-08-12 12:14:23

[Solved] No sound after upgrade

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