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I have an integrated HDA intel sound card, and I'm using LMDE. It's always been a little buggy, occasionally my sound would stop working. Now, the sound preferences do not report a sound card at all, and I would like to have it back. I'm using PulseAudio at the moment. Would it be better to install ALSA and work from there?
lspci does show it, btw
Thanks in advance,
Willrandship
Last edited by Willrandship; 12-02-2010 at 05:15 PM.
Pulseaudio is not a driver. It is just a connection manager which acts as a 'layer' between your applications and your sound drivers. You must have Alsa or OSS installed for pulse to work properly. What does lsmod show about your sound drivers?
I'm fairly sure it's alsa then. It was already installed when I looked in the package manager, and is already available in the usr/sbin folder, but oddly enough lsmod doesn't show it at all, or oss.
I'm fairly sure it's alsa then. It was already installed when I looked in the package manager, and is already available in the usr/sbin folder, but oddly enough lsmod doesn't show it at all, or oss.
lsmod should show at least snd_hda_intel, but it may show more depending on your hardware. Mine has a Nvidia chipset so it actually shows up as Nvidia for the hardware when I do a lspci. However, it shows as snd_hda_intel in lsmod as the kernel module for the sound codec, but the sound chip is actually conexant, so I also have a module for snd_conexant. It may take a little investagation to determine exactly what your audio hardware is and what modules it expects to load.
What might have to do with it is this: it stopped working after I tried installing OSS, in the hopes that it would be less glitchy. However, the bootup says that OSS cannot access any kernel modules, and throws an error. Might this have anything to do with it?
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