[SOLVED] Current: Alsa problem on sound. 'Groundhog Day' type problem

business_kid · 01-03-2024, 09:12 AM

I have a clean install of current here and I'm having sound issues - No sound, to be precise.

To cut to the chase, when I press F6 in Alsamixer to choose a soundcard, I get

Code:

       (default)
default: HDA Intel PCH
       enter device name

(default) is highlighted and selected, and there's no sound. Pavucontrol is blank. When I select the HDA ~Intel, every important thing is muted and set at zero volume. I go through them, set them correctly, exit, and run 'alsactl store' as root. But next reboot, (default) is set, everything's muted & set at zero on the HDA Intel, and I have to start over.

Is there some way I can get rid of the (default) entry?

business_kid · 01-03-2024, 09:26 AM

Bah! Put this down to me being a complete newbie on fresh installs.

Solution:

Code:

chmod +x rc.alsa

Why start pulse without alsa is a mystery to be solved by whoever dreams these things up. Maybe somebody has some subtle checks to see if I read the gigabytes of documentation, in which case I failed...

volkerdi · 01-03-2024, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

Bah! Put this down to me being a complete newbie on fresh installs.

Solution:

Code:

chmod +x rc.alsa

Why start pulse without alsa is a mystery to be solved by whoever dreams these things up. Maybe somebody has some subtle checks to see if I read the gigabytes of documentation, in which case I failed...

It's not executable here and sound (through the default pulseaudio configuration) is working fine on my machines. The rc.pulseaudio script isn't executable either, btw.

rkelsen · 01-03-2024, 07:48 PM

Sound works with no changes to default settings here... I'm also using the Intel built-in sound.