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I installed ALSA; specifically, alsa-firmware, alsa-lib, alsa-oss, alsa-plugins, alsa-utils, even lib32-alsa-lib and lib32-alsa-plugins. I probably don't need all of those. (I have a 64-bit architecture).
My first indication that there was a problem with setting it up was that when I enter "alsamixer", I get
cannot open mixer: No such file or directorySo I figured, okay, I didn't set something up. I googled around, found someone with the same problem (or at least, the same error). They tried aplay -l, and it listed their sound devices. I tried that, and got:
aplay: device_list:235: no soundcards found...The output of "lspci | grep -i audio" is:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)Help please?
Last edited by PhoenixFyre (2011-08-19 00:31:52)
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Is you user in the 'audio' group?
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I recall adding the user to the audio group upon user creation, but just to be sure, I added the user to the group and rebooted, and nothing has changed.
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Post the output of
ls -1 /etc/modprobe.d/Offline
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 704 Jul 12 2010 framebuffer_blacklist.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55 Jan 25 2010 modprobe.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Aug 13 13:27 ndiswrapper.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196 Feb 25 2010 usb-load-ehci-first.confOffline
Are the sound modules getting loaded? What kernel are you running?
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uname -sr:
Linux 2.6.34-ARCHI don't know how to check if my sound modules are being loaded...
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uname -sr:
Linux 2.6.34-ARCH
That's what I thought. Did you update your system? You should be running linux 3.0.3 kernel. Are you running a custom kernel? Is there a reason you didn't update?
Or maybe you did update the kernel but you didn't reboot?
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I really wish I weren't such a newbie at all this; I googled and googled and I checked the wiki, and the only thing I found about updating my kernel (no I'm not using a custom kernel, just what came with the Arch installer) was that I can either get a PKGBUILD or build my own... and neither sound very beginner-friendly.
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You said you installed a bunch of packages, but have you run 'pacman -Syu' to update your whole system?
If not, pick a fresh mirrorlist http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ and do it now.
Be sure to read http://www.archlinux.org/news/changes-t … filenames/
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karol, thank you. I never thought to update my mirrorlist. I pacman -Syu'd after updating my mirrorlist, and it went through updating 490 packages, as well as the kernel. I'm now running 3.0-ARCH, and my sound works great! Thanks so much!
Now to figure out how to change the volume...
Last edited by PhoenixFyre (2011-08-19 00:40:48)
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Glad to hear that :-)
Be sure to properly merge all the .pacnew files.
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