First experience with sound problems in Arch

Hi everyone. Just did a fresh install and pacman -Syu so everything should be up to date. Installed alsa-utils and made sure Master and PCM were unmuted. My goal here is to create a headless PC that interfaces with my radio, in order to use digital modes like RTTY and PSK.
EDIT: Forgot to mention here the nature of the problem -- no sound at all. However, the program fldigi seems to be able to get input from the Line In.
pavucontrol shows the meter moving when sound is being generated. Here's the output from lsmod | grep snd:
snd_via82xx 17875 4
snd_via82xx_modem 7514 0
snd_ac97_codec 89368 2 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem
snd_wavefront 28274 0
ac97_bus 874 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_cs4236 22200 0
snd_wss_lib 18042 2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_opl3_lib 7122 2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_hwdep 4778 2 snd_wavefront,snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart 4783 3 snd_via82xx,snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_rawmidi 14796 2 snd_wavefront,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_pcm 65796 5 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_wss_lib,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_cs4236
snd_timer 15006 3 snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_seq_device 4252 2 snd_rawmidi,snd_opl3_lib
snd 44583 21 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_wavefront,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_seq_device,snd_cs4236,snd_opl3_lib
gameport 6202 2 snd_via82xx,ns558
soundcore 4354 1 snd
It seems excessive to me but I don't remember this motherboard too well. This is all built-in sound. I installed Pulseaudio as this seems to be the preferred method in fldigi, the program I'm using.
I feel like I'm forgetting a few outputs, here's aplay -l:
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
Subdevices: 4/4
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
I'm happy to provide more information. Every other arch install I've done has worked flawlessly, first time I've ever encountered audio problems.
I'm going to re-read the ALSA, OSS and Pulseaudio wiki entries, even though I feel like I'm still not grasping something.
A sincere thank-you for everyone's help here. I can get the alsa-info.sh script as well, if that will help.
EDIT: Here's the alsa-info output: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=6930c … 86954423ed
Last edited by MrAureliusR (2014-04-22 02:15:21)

What have you used to try to push sound through?
Have you tried:
aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=VT82xx
HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=VT82xx
HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=VT82xx,DEV=0
HDA VIA VT82xx, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Front speakers
Then:
speaker-test -Dplug:default -c2 -l1
Try changing 'default' to one of playback devices output by aplay -L
Have you tried any 'model=' options for the module?

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After just about an hour of using the keyboard was lose again.
Guess what I went back to the store and now it was the time to request my money. Of course I had to wait for another 2 weeks.
It was a total downtime of 2 months and worst service I have ever seen. Especially that double sided tape was hilarious and unprofessional and made up for some good laughs.
And today I got my money back thanks to the law system we have here in Germany , which saves customers like me from faulty products.
In the time I did not have my Yoga I tried out several in stores and found the same errors over and over again and mostly with the keyboard. So it seems like a design flaw to me. A very bad one.
Colors were scrapping of the edges even on mine to which was handled with a lot of care and carried with a very nice incase sleeve which has some very soft fur inside.
Fan Noise on all of them. Some were even worse than mine.
I am a very disappointed customer and I don't think I will come back again to Lenovo and a lot of my friends won't get any recommandation at least not for the "casual" series. This should go straight to your quality assurance department.
You should know that you only have one chance to do it right. And if you do it wrong at least care a bit. If you don't your customers will simply move on such as me.
I hope that everyone who enjoys his Yoga continues to do so and everyone who has complaints to put up their voice so you can be heard and people who are responsible for the flaws start correcting them.
I am happy to be out of that beg for something but don't receive anything circle.

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