On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Kyle <kyle@xxxxxx> wrote: > Working from the command line in a text-only console using espeakup, all > is well, and sound works as it should. However, starting GDM mutes my sound > card. If I go back to the text console and run > > sudo systemctl start alsa-restore > > Again, all is well in the text console until I login with GDM. I am > expecting to hear Orca speaking at this point, but I hear nothing. In order > to get Orca to speak, I must run gnome-terminal from within GNOME and then > do > > sudo systemctl start alsa-restore > > again. Once I do this, I have sound until I shutdown the computer. I have > tried xdm and lxdm also, and while they themselves don't cause me to lose > sound at the text console, I am for some reason unable to login and use > GNOME from either of these display managers. I also tried commenting out > > load-module module-device-restore > > in /etc/pulse/default.pa, as was a possible work-around in a much older > version of PulseAudio that mentioned /etc/pa.conf, which I translated to > /etc/pulse/default.pa since there is no /etc/pa.conf, but this also > doesn't solve my problem. I should note that although I am using systemd > commands to restore sound, this problem is not related to systemd, as I was > experiencing the same issue before I migrated to full systemd yesterday. > > I am currently running Arch on a USB flash drive connected to a Dell > Optiplex from about 2003 or 2004, but I can't find the exact model, as lshw > is only giving me Dell Computer Corporation as the vendor name with no > model number, and it doesn't even say Optiplex anywhere, although I > remember reading it somewhere a couple of years ago. The computer was given > to my family several years ago, but it's basically been a spare box until > recently when my newer and better designed box passed away due to human > error. This is why I unfortunately don't have the full information about > this machine. The sound card is listed by lspci as > > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM > (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) > > and uses the snd_intel8x0 kernel module. I am currently running linux-lts > 3.0.40-1, pulseaudio 2.1-1, pulseaudio-alsa 2-1, alsa-utils 1.0.25-3 and > gdm 3.4.1-2. I would appreciate any help anyone can provide, and will be > happy to answer any questions I may have missed here. > ~Kyle > Have you tried running "alsamixer -D hw" and see if there are any muted channels in your hardware? Also, once I had a similar problem and solved it by simply deleting the files at ~/.pulse/*.tdb HTH -- Rodrigo
