[SOLVED] Another "Sound broken after upgrade" thread

Question

Hi.  My sound stopped working at some point, probably after an upgrade.  I've seen lot's of posts about this in the last month, but nothing is helping.  My guess is that OSS is screwing with ALSA.  Here is what it says in my pacman log.
Running OSS update script...
[2011-12-05 13:34]
[2011-12-05 13:34] -------------------------------------------------------------
[2011-12-05 13:34] Open Sound System was updated. Now you should restart the
[2011-12-05 13:34] daemon by running /etc/rc.d/oss restart.
[2011-12-05 13:34]
[2011-12-05 13:34] Please note that OSS stores some of its configuration files
[2011-12-05 13:34] at /usr/lib/oss. If you are upgrading from an older OSS
[2011-12-05 13:34] release and it doesn't work properly, try removing that
[2011-12-05 13:34] directory and reinstall this package.
[2011-12-05 13:34] -------------------------------------------------------------
[2011-12-05 13:34] upgraded oss (4.2_2005-1 -> 4.2_2005-2)
I tried removing the directory and reinstalling oss, but that didn't work.  I also tried removing oss altogether, but pacman says that lib32-libflashsupport: requires oss.  So I'm not sure what to do.  I was trying this
http://wiki.archbang.org/index.php?titl … _with_Alsa
but I got the dependency conflict with libflashsupport.
What I want to do is force remove oss via pacman -Rf oss, then install the alsa-oss emulator, but I'm not sure if that will break something else.
I'm also willing to just wait and see if the next kernel update will fix it, if that doesn't take too long.  I don't really use sound very often anyway, but I still want it to work.  I'm running this kernel
Linux version 3.1.5-1-ARCH (tobias@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.6.2 20111125 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Dec 10 14:43:09 CET 2011
Thanks for any help.
Last edited by Pacopag (2012-01-09 14:57:18)

Answer 1

Sorry for bumping this rather useless post.  But I just wanted to mention that the problem is fixed.  What I did was to follow the link
http://wiki.archbang.org/index.php?titl … _with_Alsa
(but I don't know that even has anything to do with the solution, because the sound didn't work after doing this.)
But then, just today, there was a kernel upgrade, and now the sound works.  Big thanks to the arch team.
Last edited by Pacopag (2012-01-09 14:56:41)