[arch-general] No sound after hal update

[Christopher Daley]

Have you tried running pulseaudio as a daemon?  e.g. "/etc/rc.d/pulseaudio
start'
This would likely be a fix for now...

OR
If you're feeling daring, then maybe try out this udev-acl package I just
put up on AUR.  I have no idea if it will work, I just threw it together
with the patch that was provided, and I'm not on an Arch box right now so I
can't test it.  I figured it would be interesting to see if this solved the
problem though.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31904

I think the default way of starting pulse has become dependent on consolekit
& policykit ever since the pulse user was removed.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Christopher Daley <crdaley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Also, make sure your user is a member of the group 'audio'?
> >
> > If you're still having problems then run
> >
> > ls -l /dev/snd
> >
> > and show us the output
>
> I'm having the same problem as OP.  Re-configuring fails:
>
> % groups
> wheel audio users vboxusers pulse-access pulse-rt magnus
> % alsamixer
> ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect:
> Connection refused
>
> cannot open mixer: Connection refused
> % ll /dev/snd
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      60 2009-11-06 16:43 by-path
> crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 2009-11-06 16:43 controlC0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 2009-11-06 16:43 hwC0D0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 2009-11-10 11:19 pcmC0D0c
> crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 2009-11-10 11:19 pcmC0D0p
> crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 2009-11-06 16:43 seq
> crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 2009-11-06 16:43 timer
>
> Any ideas of how to get my sound back?
>
> /M
>
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