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vladimir_1922

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Registered: 2010-11-02

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reinstall sound system, or clear [SOLVED]

Time ago, i posted asking for help, as the sound system stopped working as normal user, only for some software, making me to open a root console to play quake, for example. None knew how to help me, and the problem persist, extending to new programs i install. I'd just delete and install Gentoo, but i dont want to give up and lose all my documents. Then, if i can't fix it, there is a way to reinstall all the sound system? I use Alsa, and alsa oss emulation, but there is not anything like a metapackage. Reinstalling arch will is not desirable, because, i did the stupid thing of not creating a separated /home partition

Thanks in advance

Last edited by vladimir_1922 (2011-09-26 15:58:49)

cybertorture

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Registered: 2010-05-05

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Re: reinstall sound system, or clear [SOLVED]

Ermh... something little more specific ?
Do you you pure alsa or pulseaudio ?
Do you realy need alsa-oss, or maybe try pure oss instead ?
Do you have your user in audio group ?
Some outputs may be good also.

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vladimir_1922

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Registered: 2010-11-02

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Re: reinstall sound system, or clear [SOLVED]

Well, i use alsa and pulseadio, not oss (only oss emulation for some old games)

Yes i am in audio group, this whas the first thing i checked, and well, not being in audio group just will make to not hear ANY sound, but the problem is there are some programs that run fine (like audacity, or web browsers), and another ones are muted

And prompt? this is the reason i think no one could help. There is no error! the verbose shows it loads the sound system perfectly, and dont show anything unusual, but it is muted, except if i run as root. I can still change volume, but... no sound as normal user anyway. This is why i am thinking on reinstalling all the sound system. I am expert on getting weird errors no one can solve,an i am starting to feel to bored of spending hours just to finish reinstalling the OS

Last edited by vladimir_1922 (2011-09-24 23:59:03)

cybertorture

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Re: reinstall sound system, or clear [SOLVED]

Do you have alsa-utils and alsa-plugins installed, also check alsamixer for muted sound.
Also if you are on ARCH64 install "lib32-pulse"

Last edited by cybertorture (2011-09-25 03:37:39)

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vladimir_1922

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Registered: 2010-11-02

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Re: reinstall sound system, or clear [SOLVED]

Do you have alsa-utils and alsa-plugins installed, also check alsamixer for muted sound.
Also if you are on ARCH64 install "lib32-pulse"

I have all mixer channels set up correctly (well, i could llways listen to music), i have alsa-plugins, but not lib32-pulse (it is called lib32-libpulse).
Anyway still no sound. It is possible that only programs based on sdl fails? I have sdl_mixer installed anyway....

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: reinstall sound system, or clear [SOLVED]

Show some useful debugging info:

wget -O alsa-info.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
bash alsa-info.sh --upload

Then show us the URL that the script shows at the end.

vladimir_1922

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Registered: 2010-11-02

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Re: reinstall sound system, or clear [SOLVED]

Show some useful debugging info:

wget -O alsa-info.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
bash alsa-info.sh --upload

Then show us the URL that the script shows at the end.

Hi! thanks for the useful answer

the log is uploaded in http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=ddbd8 … af18d432f2

i saw the dmseg events, but don't reflect anything about the conflicting programs. Help this can lighten up enought info!

brebs

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Re: reinstall sound system, or clear [SOLVED]

hda_intel: Disabling MSI

Maybe enable_msi=1 will help. I use this option.

hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #1. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj.

If it were me, I would google for bdl_pos_adj and your model.

I don't use, so can't help with, pulseaudio.

vladimir_1922

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Re: reinstall sound system, or clear [SOLVED]

I found that there doesn't exist a real alsa config, alsa.conf just pointed to a pulseaudio config file. I removed pulseaudio, and now sound works 10/10 again. Thanks for the help!