[SOLVED] No Sound on Fresh Install

Question

Well, I decided to try Arch. I was very proud of myself for managing to install everything. I even loaded KDE. I wanted to try a KDE only OS for a while.
Well, all my pride was stomped out quicjky, in that I have no sound.  I did the following:
1. installed: alsa-utils, alsa-oss, alsa-plugins
2. unmuted the sound using alsamixer
3. ran alsaconf, but found no supported drivers.
4. Added @alsa as a daemon and rebooted
No sound from browser. Tried an internet radio station with clementine and got:
Could not open audio device for playback.
Below I have tried to be helpful and posted as much output from various commands as I could. I am a newbie, and do not work in the computer indiustry. I actually do this for fun.
Here are some outputs:
natibo@myhost ~]$ ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 24 20:00 snd_hda_codec -> ../../snd_hda_codec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 24 20:00 snd_hda_codec_hdmi -> ../../snd_hda_codec_hdmi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 24 20:00 snd_hda_codec_realtek -> ../../snd_hda_codec_realtek
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 24 20:00 snd_hda_intel -> ../../snd_hda_intel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 24 20:00 snd_hwdep -> ../../snd_hwdep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 24 20:00 snd_pcm -> ../../snd_pcm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 24 20:00 snd_rawmidi -> ../../snd_rawmidi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 24 20:00 snd_seq_device -> ../../snd_seq_device
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 24 20:00 snd_timer -> ../../snd_timer
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 24 20:00 snd_usb_audio -> ../../snd_usb_audio
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 24 20:00 snd_usbmidi_lib -> ../../snd_usbmidi_lib
[natibo@myhost ~]$ cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_usb_audio
1 snd_hda_intel
[natibo@myhost ~]$
Some more:
natibo@myhost ~]$ lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 22092 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 294224 1
snd_hda_intel 22122 4
snd_hda_codec 77927 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_usb_audio 91809 2
snd_usbmidi_lib 18665 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 19519 1 snd_usbmidi_lib
snd_seq_device 5268 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_hwdep 6325 2 snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio
snd_pcm 73888 5 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio
snd_timer 19416 2 snd_pcm
snd 57818 21 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 7121 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
natibo@myhost ~]$ ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Sep 24 19:48 by-id
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Sep 24 19:48 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 11 Sep 24 19:48 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Sep 24 19:48 controlC1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Sep 24 19:48 hwC1D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Sep 24 19:48 hwC1D3
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Sep 24 19:49 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Sep 24 19:49 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Sep 24 19:50 pcmC1D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Sep 24 19:50 pcmC1D1p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Sep 24 19:48 pcmC1D2c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Sep 24 19:48 pcmC1D3p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Sep 24 19:48 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Sep 24 19:48 timer
Last edited by natibo (2011-09-27 12:49:08)

Answer 1

I tried to play a .wav but failed. I followed everything on the alsa wiki page. I can still hear the KDE test sounds quite well. My gut tells me it's got to be something simple since I can get some sound! Ugh. I don't want to give up, but I am getting closer. I did not like Chakra.
Here is my code.
[natibo@myhost ~]$ cat /proc/asound/modules
1 snd_usb_audio
2 snd_hda_intel
[natibo@myhost ~]$
[natibo@myhost ~]$ ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 26 18:39 snd_hda_codec -> ../../snd_hda_codec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 26 18:39 snd_hda_codec_hdmi -> ../../snd_hda_codec_hdmi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 26 18:39 snd_hda_codec_realtek -> ../../snd_hda_codec_realtek
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 26 18:39 snd_hda_intel -> ../../snd_hda_intel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 26 18:39 snd_hwdep -> ../../snd_hwdep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 26 18:39 snd_pcm -> ../../snd_pcm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 26 18:39 snd_rawmidi -> ../../snd_rawmidi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 26 18:39 snd_seq_device -> ../../snd_seq_device
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 26 18:39 snd_timer -> ../../snd_timer
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 26 18:39 snd_usb_audio -> ../../snd_usb_audio
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 26 18:39 snd_usbmidi_lib -> ../../snd_usbmidi_lib
natibo@myhost ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 2: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC889 Analog [ALC889 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC889 Digital [ALC889 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Intel [HDA Intel], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
[natibo@myhost ~]$