[arch-general] Alsa/Pulse not using sound cards?

[Tom Gundersen]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Nikhil Bysani <nikron at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 16:36 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> On 08/09/2011 04:30 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> > On 08/09/2011 02:58 PM, Nikhil Bysani wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> My system's sound is no longer is working.
>> >>
>> >> No, it's not muted, the sound modules are loaded, and there
>> >> are pcm's in /dev/snd but no /dev/dsp. Also, while alsamixer
>> >> does show the sound cards, it is only using the null device, and
>> >> pulse audo doesn't see the sound cards either. Anyone know why
>> >> alsa might not be using the soudn cards?
>> >
>> > Have you loaded the snd-pcm-oss module too?
>> >
>> > DR
>>
>> In fact, why don't you post the output of this:
>>
>> [darose at daroselin MacrosensePipetree]$ lsmod | grep snd
>> snd_pcm_oss            38818  0
>> snd_hda_codec_hdmi     22092  1
>> snd_hda_codec_realtek   294224  1
>> snd_hda_intel          22122  14
>> snd_hda_codec          77927  3
>> snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
>> snd_hwdep               6325  1 snd_hda_codec
>> snd_pcm                73856  8
>> snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
>> snd_timer              19416  5 snd_pcm
>> snd_page_alloc          7121  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
>> snd_mixer_oss          15275  2 snd_pcm_oss
>> snd                    57786  27
>> snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
>> soundcore               6146  2 snd
>>
>> DR
>
> It's actually not the modules or udev, but a systemd problem.  I think
> pulse isn't starting?

I have not been following the discussion in detail, so please excuse
me if this has been covered:

Please make sure the pam_systemd module is enabled in the relevant
files in /etc/pam.d/.

Cheers,

Tom