No sound from RealTek audio card? [Solved]

I can't hear any sound from my laptop. This is what I executed:
pacman -S alsa-utils
gpasswd -a yourusername audio
alsamixer
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
alsactl store
nano /etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network crond alsa)
Last edited by Zdravko (2008-04-22 12:36:38)

If I understand you correctly, you have installed all required alsa packages and tried to configure. What doesn't work is attempting to push up the volume via alsamixer/aumix etc., unmuting also does not work.
Am I correct?
If so, you may have a similar issue to what happened to me a ways back. Is your current kernel up to date? The problem I had involved the fact that my sound card (though it was extremely common and, well, sh*tty) was affected by a feature regression in the ALSA code and an incompatibility with kernel in what was then [current]. I had to wait for the kernel to catch up to ALSA to do anything, but the regression had to be fixed before I could do anything useful.
Moral of the story (also known as the 'tl;dr' or 'too long; didn't read' version) - Try updating your kernel if all else has failed. If nothing useful comes out of that, try searching the ALSA site.

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Last edited by quarK (2008-03-28 11:05:47)

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HDA Intel, ALC889A Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889A Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889A Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
.asoundrc
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 2
device 3
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 2
device 3
i unmuted the channels using amixer
speaker-test -c 2 runs but plays nothing
aplay -D plughw:2,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav does the same
What am I missing?

cyberscan wrote:have you tried "alsamixer -c0" for card 1
and "alsamixer -c1" for card 2.
alsamixer -c0 gives me my webcam (just mike)
alsamixer -c1 give me the generic (posably my headphone jack)
alsamixer -c2 gives me the HDMI, but it just shows s/pdif and s/pdif 1 through 3
everything is on. just a side note, there's volume controls for alsamixer -c1 (volume as well as mute) but none for -c2, could this be part of the problem?

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