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

[Nikhil Bysani]

On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 02:02 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> 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

This fixed it; thanks