[arch-general] No sound after hal update

[Christopher Daley]

Never mind about that package on AUR, I can't get it to build.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Christopher Daley <crdaley at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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