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Once again, I've gone and tried to see if Arch is what I'm after, and once again it's gotten to the point of just one thing bugging me - audio.
The Beginners Guide on ArchWiki says to install ALSA. Fair enough.
The test doesn't output any audio - yes, even after unmuting channels and turning up the volume, I did check. Nothing else seemed wrong, so I decided to leave it, finish going through the guide, then figure it out afterwards.
I then glanced into a spare Ubuntu install, and noted that it also had PulseAudio. So I used the ArchWiki's page on PulseAudio, and no difference. Still no sound at all.
The desktop is due to be an LXDE one, just as soon as I finish twiddling around with SLiM, so if that helps, there you go. I don't know this time, and I don't really want to go breaking things in an attempt to fix something I don't even know how to diagnose. I figure it's safer.
Anyway, can someone shed a little light on this annoyance?
Thanks.
Certainly not a generic Arch issue.....I have 2 systems on Arch now and no audio issues. Just using alsa and followed the basic instructions---nothing fancy.
Any chance that you have an off-beat sound card and just need a driver?
I don't know for sure - every other distro I've put on here has audio working out of the box. Since they all used PulseAudio, I guessed, apparently incorrectly, that I needed to use that.
If I knew what to look for/how to find out, that'd be useful. I'm not exactly used to handling audio by hand, it's always been one of the automagically things.
I understand that, it's the Wiki I'm using, and I'm aware it doesn't do it out of the box.
I don't have the knowledge I need to fix this. Hence why I brought it here.
OK--it looks like a driver for your card is in place.
All I can suggest is to follow the Arch wiki instructions one step at a time and tell us exactly what happens.
I usually put spaces before and after "|"---but only for readability. I think it's not needed simply because the lack of spaces does not create "semantic ambiguity". (To be a true computer guru, you have to learn really important-sounding phrases like this.... )
Ah, I see... so it's aesthetic preference, essentially.
I can say, now from the finished (mostly) LXDE session, that the Arch wiki's Beginners Guide gave me no issues at all - except here:
Quote:
Sound test
Ensure your speakers are properly connected, and test your sound configuration as normal user using /usr/bin/aplay:
$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
You should hear a woman's voice saying, "Front, center."
I hear nothing at all, even with all the mixer channels in alsamixer unmuted (At least I assume unmuted is the green backed 'OO') and turned to full, and even with the speakers turned up a ways beyond what's normally necessary.
Everything else has worked perfectly for me.
Yes, I've run through that page, the only thing on there I haven't done is to try the script it links to someplace near the end, but I'm about to do that anyway.
Right, ran the script linked to at the end of that page (aadebug)
It didn't mean much to me, but the output is here, maybe it makes sense to someone. (Warning, lots of text)
Code:
core@klingarch/~$ sudo sh aadebug
ALSA Audio Debug v0.1.0 - Sat May 1 16:57:55 BST 2010
http://alsa.opensrc.org/aadebug
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
Kernel ----------------------------------------------------
Linux klingarch 2.6.33-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 26 20:00:20 CEST 2010 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Loaded Modules --------------------------------------------
snd_seq_dummy 1067 0
snd_seq_oss 24984 0
snd_seq_midi_event 4484 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 41656 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 4349 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_intel8x0 22200 0
snd_ac97_codec 87943 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 57767 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 15629 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 42562 7 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 5873 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
Proc Config -----------------------------------------------
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS_CORE=y
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM=y
CONFIG_SND=m
CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM=m
CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m
CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m
CONFIG_SND_JACK=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS_PLUGINS=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_HRTIMER=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQ_HRTIMER_DEFAULT=y
CONFIG_SND_DYNAMIC_MINORS=y
CONFIG_SND_SUPPORT_OLD_API=y
CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PROCFS=y
# CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is not set
# CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_SND_VMASTER=y
CONFIG_SND_DMA_SGBUF=y
CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI_SEQ=m
CONFIG_SND_OPL3_LIB_SEQ=m
CONFIG_SND_OPL4_LIB_SEQ=m
CONFIG_SND_SBAWE_SEQ=m
CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1_SEQ=m
CONFIG_SND_MPU401_UART=m
CONFIG_SND_OPL3_LIB=m
CONFIG_SND_OPL4_LIB=m
CONFIG_SND_VX_LIB=m
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m
CONFIG_SND_DRIVERS=y
# CONFIG_SND_PCSP is not set
CONFIG_SND_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_SND_VIRMIDI=m
CONFIG_SND_MTPAV=m
CONFIG_SND_MTS64=m
CONFIG_SND_SERIAL_U16550=m
CONFIG_SND_MPU401=m
CONFIG_SND_PORTMAN2X4=m
CONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE=y
CONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT=0
CONFIG_SND_WSS_LIB=m
CONFIG_SND_SB_COMMON=m
CONFIG_SND_SB8_DSP=m
CONFIG_SND_SB16_DSP=m
CONFIG_SND_ISA=y
CONFIG_SND_ADLIB=m
CONFIG_SND_AD1816A=m
CONFIG_SND_AD1848=m
CONFIG_SND_ALS100=m
CONFIG_SND_AZT2320=m
CONFIG_SND_CMI8330=m
CONFIG_SND_CS4231=m
CONFIG_SND_CS4236=m
CONFIG_SND_DT019X=m
CONFIG_SND_ES968=m
CONFIG_SND_ES1688=m
CONFIG_SND_ES18XX=m
CONFIG_SND_SC6000=m
CONFIG_SND_GUSCLASSIC=m
CONFIG_SND_GUSEXTREME=m
CONFIG_SND_GUSMAX=m
CONFIG_SND_INTERWAVE=m
CONFIG_SND_INTERWAVE_STB=m
CONFIG_SND_OPL3SA2=m
CONFIG_SND_OPTI92X_AD1848=m
CONFIG_SND_OPTI92X_CS4231=m
CONFIG_SND_OPTI93X=m
CONFIG_SND_MIRO=m
CONFIG_SND_SB8=m
CONFIG_SND_SB16=m
CONFIG_SND_SBAWE=m
CONFIG_SND_SB16_CSP=y
CONFIG_SND_SGALAXY=m
CONFIG_SND_SSCAPE=m
CONFIG_SND_WAVEFRONT=m
CONFIG_SND_MSND_PINNACLE=m
CONFIG_SND_MSND_CLASSIC=m
CONFIG_SND_PCI=y
CONFIG_SND_AD1889=m
CONFIG_SND_ALS300=m
CONFIG_SND_ALS4000=m
CONFIG_SND_ALI5451=m
CONFIG_SND_ATIIXP=m
CONFIG_SND_ATIIXP_MODEM=m
CONFIG_SND_AU8810=m
CONFIG_SND_AU8820=m
CONFIG_SND_AU8830=m
CONFIG_SND_AW2=m
CONFIG_SND_AZT3328=m
CONFIG_SND_BT87X=m
# CONFIG_SND_BT87X_OVERCLOCK is not set
CONFIG_SND_CA0106=m
CONFIG_SND_CMIPCI=m
CONFIG_SND_OXYGEN_LIB=m
CONFIG_SND_OXYGEN=m
CONFIG_SND_CS4281=m
CONFIG_SND_CS46XX=m
CONFIG_SND_CS46XX_NEW_DSP=y
CONFIG_SND_CS5530=m
CONFIG_SND_CS5535AUDIO=m
CONFIG_SND_CTXFI=m
CONFIG_SND_DARLA20=m
CONFIG_SND_GINA20=m
CONFIG_SND_LAYLA20=m
CONFIG_SND_DARLA24=m
CONFIG_SND_GINA24=m
CONFIG_SND_LAYLA24=m
CONFIG_SND_MONA=m
CONFIG_SND_MIA=m
CONFIG_SND_ECHO3G=m
CONFIG_SND_INDIGO=m
CONFIG_SND_INDIGOIO=m
CONFIG_SND_INDIGODJ=m
CONFIG_SND_INDIGOIOX=m
CONFIG_SND_INDIGODJX=m
CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1=m
CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1X=m
CONFIG_SND_ENS1370=m
CONFIG_SND_ENS1371=m
CONFIG_SND_ES1938=m
CONFIG_SND_ES1968=m
CONFIG_SND_FM801=m
CONFIG_SND_FM801_TEA575X_BOOL=y
CONFIG_SND_FM801_TEA575X=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_RECONFIG=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP_MODE=1
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_JACK=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_PATCH_LOADER=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ATIHDMI=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_NVHDMI=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_INTELHDMI=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_ELD=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CIRRUS=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0110=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT=0
CONFIG_SND_HDSP=m
CONFIG_SND_HDSPM=m
CONFIG_SND_HIFIER=m
CONFIG_SND_ICE1712=m
CONFIG_SND_ICE1724=m
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M=m
CONFIG_SND_KORG1212=m
CONFIG_SND_LX6464ES=m
CONFIG_SND_MAESTRO3=m
CONFIG_SND_MIXART=m
CONFIG_SND_NM256=m
CONFIG_SND_PCXHR=m
CONFIG_SND_RIPTIDE=m
CONFIG_SND_RME32=m
CONFIG_SND_RME96=m
CONFIG_SND_RME9652=m
CONFIG_SND_SIS7019=m
CONFIG_SND_SONICVIBES=m
CONFIG_SND_TRIDENT=m
CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX=m
CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX_MODEM=m
CONFIG_SND_VIRTUOSO=m
CONFIG_SND_VX222=m
CONFIG_SND_YMFPCI=m
CONFIG_SND_SPI=y
CONFIG_SND_USB=y
CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO=m
CONFIG_SND_USB_USX2Y=m
CONFIG_SND_USB_CAIAQ=m
CONFIG_SND_USB_CAIAQ_INPUT=y
CONFIG_SND_USB_US122L=m
CONFIG_SND_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_SND_VXPOCKET=m
CONFIG_SND_PDAUDIOCF=m
CONFIG_SND_SOC=m
CONFIG_SND_SOC_I2C_AND_SPI=m
# CONFIG_SND_SOC_ALL_CODECS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME is not set
Modprobe Conf ---------------------------------------------
Warning: module config file does not exist
This means any kernel modules will not be auto loaded
See your linux distro docs on how to create this file
Proc Asound -----------------------------------------------
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
0 [SI7012 ]: ICH - SiS SI7012
SiS SI7012 with AD1888 at irq 18
2: : timer
3: : sequencer
4: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture
5: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
6: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
7: [ 0] : control
cat: /proc/asound/hwdep: No such file or directory
00-00: Intel ICH : SiS SI7012 : playback 1 : capture 1
00-01: Intel ICH - MIC ADC : SiS SI7012 - MIC ADC : capture 1
Client info
cur clients : 3
peak clients : 3
max clients : 192
Client 0 : "System" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Timer" (Rwe-)
Port 1 : "Announce" (R-e-)
Connecting To: 15:0
Client 14 : "Midi Through" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Midi Through Port-0" (RWe-)
Client 15 : "OSS sequencer" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Receiver" (-we-)
Connected From: 0:1
Dev Snd ---------------------------------------------------
by-path controlC0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D0p pcmC0D1c seq timer
CPU -------------------------------------------------------
model name : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+
cpu MHz : 1799.774
RAM -------------------------------------------------------
MemTotal: 510484 kB
SwapTotal: 1983988 kB
Hardware --------------------------------------------------
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
I think I may have found a possible cause - I reviewed what I posted in the previous post, and found this snippet:
Code:
Modprobe Conf ---------------------------------------------
Warning: module config file does not exist
This means any kernel modules will not be auto loaded
See your linux distro docs on how to create this file
Perhaps it's the cause, but the only modprobe experience I know of is only relevent for NDisWrapper. Once again, might I ask if the minds of LQ have a solution?
The modprobe.conf error is because the script you ran is old and that file is deprecated. All module config files are now in /etc/modprobe.d and must end in .conf (which was not required before).
Found a bug report regarding a SiS sound card. Don't know if it's the same model as yours, but try muting the External Amplifier or Line Jack Sense in alsamixer.
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