[Solved] Strange sound issue

I finally got around to trying out Arch, and I'm having a strange issue with sound. When I try to play videos off the Internet as my normal (non-root) user, the video plays, but no sound comes out of the speakers. If I log in as root and try to play the same video, the sound works perfectly. I have not experienced this on any other distros.
Since I am a strict follower of the "don't run as root" rule, I'd like to know if there are any settings/config files I can check to see what the issue may be.
Additional details:
-Using alsa, it has always worked perfectly for me in the past
-alsamixer works as root
-alsamixer as normal users says:
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory
-lspci entry for my sound device:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
-I have already seen the Alsa setup page on the wiki and added the blacklist line to modprobe.conf, but there is no "external amplifier" listed in alsamixer
-alsaconf seems non-existent
-I have already tried "modprobe -rv snd-hda-intel && sleep 5 && modprobe snd-hda-intel" as root
EDIT: I have not yet tried playing any local videos or sound files, though I can try this later when I have some extra time.
Last edited by Piki (2012-03-14 00:06:43)

6ng4n wrote:Does your user in "audio" group?
I am now ;-)
I've got sound now that I am. I'm used to having the distro installer setting up my default account for me. Although I should know to check the groups, since I have had to setup custom users before ;-)
Thanks, 6ng4n.

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:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:kB=\E[Z:kE=\E[8\^:*4=\E[3$:*7=\E[8$:\
:#2=\E[7$:#3=\E2$:#4=\E[d:%c=\E[6$:%e=\E[5$:%i=\E[c:\
:kh=\E[1~:@1=\E[1~:kH=\E[4~:@7=\E[4~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:\
:kI=\E[2~:kD=\E[3~:ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:km:
OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg:/opt/kde/etc/xdg
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/bin/perlbin/site:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/bin/perlbin/core:/opt/qt/bin
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/nk
STY=2868.pts-0.hostname
LC_COLLATE=C
PWD=/home/nk
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
EDITOR=vim
LANG=en_US.utf8
KDEDIRS=/usr:/opt/kde
PS3=>
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
HOME=/home/nk
PS4=+
SHLVL=5
COLORFGBG=15;0
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/nk/.config
TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo
XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/nk/.cache
LOGNAME=nk
LESS=-R
WINDOW=5
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/opt/kde/share
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/opt/kde/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/qt/lib/pkgconfig
WINDOWPATH=7
DISPLAY=:0
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
XAUTHORITY=/home/nk/.Xauthority
COLORTERM=rxvt
_=/usr/bin/printenv
Here you go. But I don't think it's really environment specific, since I've had this occur in Ubuntu with full Gnome and now I'm using urxvt with screen. I think I've actually seen this happen in actual shells. I've always had bash though. Oh well..
Last edited by initbox (2008-12-01 19:20:19)

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If I'm listening to a song, watching a DVD, playing a game, whatever, as long as it involves sound it does this. What happens is, it'll be fine for up to a minute, and then it starts making this staticky skipping noise and losing the tracking on whatever it is I'm doing (game, song, DVD, etc.). This happens whether I've got headphones or speakers plugged in, or I'm using the laptop speakers. Also, a red light flashes from INSIDE the headphone jack with every staticky noise.
Everything else works fine. The problem doesn't appear as long as I'm not doing anything using sound, and it goes away about a minute after I stop using sound when it appears. It just started doing this yesterday, which was an entirely uneventful day and no different from normal. I traveled, but the laptop stayed in its case the whole time and didn't get dropped or jostled or anything.
I depend on my music to keep me sane! I can use my iPod for now, but I've got finals coming up and I need to use music while I study! HELP!

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Hi,
I have a HP Pavillion dv6700 Entertainment Laptop running Windows Vista 32bit Home Premium and have been running into some strange sound issues first.
First, on occassion when I start my laptop I will get a "No Audio Output Device Installed" Message, and no sound controllers show up in the device manager. Strangely, sometimes if I restart the laptop or put it into hibernation and bring it back, the output device will again work.
Also, when it is working I am experiencing other strange issues. Often, sound will work only through headphones, and not through the built in Altec Lansing speakers. Other times, even with the headphones plugged in, I only get sound through the speakers. And sometimes, no sound through either, even though the computer at this point is showing a working audio device.
Lastly, when the sound does work through the speakers, it is normally crackling and distorted - it doesn't sound right at all.
The sound device installed on the computer is Contextant Smart Audio 221 (At least when it chooses to be working...)
I hope there is a solution to this problem, thank you very much for any support!
Message Edited by Holte2005 on 05-12-2009 02:52 PM

I also have a HP Pavillion laptop, with Windows Vista.. I am having sound issues, but not the same ones.. mine often displays the volume bar on the screen, clicking like I'm turning it up or down.. I can't get it to stop or go away.. I usually have to reboot and most of the time it stops, until the next time I open the laptop. Also, when it's not doing this, I can't control my volume from the touch pad volume control at the top of my keyboard. I thought maybe it was just damaged because it seems to have some scratches in that area where the top connects when closed, but I didn't think it made sense that rebooting will stop this, even temporarily. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers, however, one driver didn't come back.. it actually seemed to be better at first, but now I have to reboot it almost everytime I open it. I thought if I didn't leave it in hibernation, just turn it off, while not using it, that would help, it didn't. I have also tried updating the drivers and they are updated.. If anyone knows what else I can do, please help, it's terribly annoying, plus I have a lot of music on it, I'd like to listen to it sometime.

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I have reset PRAM, done an SMC reset, cleared every cache I can think of, reset preferences on Terminal, checked bash-related (profile, bashrc, etc) and nothing seems to help. It does appear that it's iTunes specific - the volume of DVD player doesn't change when I use terminal in a similar way. If I remember correctly, I had the problem before my Leopard upgrade as well. I have the MS intellitype/intellipoint utilities installed for my keyboard/mouse, although I don't know if that matters.
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I've been having a strange sound issue for a couple months now that's driving me insane. What seems to happen is that when I launch/close Terminal the sound volume seems to change. It usually increases, but sometimes the output device toggles to the internal speaker. It's very strange, very frustrating, and very reproducible.
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Any idea what could be causing this?
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Recently pulseaudio was updated version 5.0 this finally fixed my KDE issues where KDE would switch inputs after every login. But now I have a crackling sound issue in Skype but only on my end off the connection. The one I'm talking to sounds fine but he hears me all the distorted and crackling. I tried the Skype Test Call system and there I sound fine no crackling issues or distortions. Anyone else have issues like that currently or know that could be?
Last edited by fettouhi (2014-04-24 09:06:02)

brebs wrote:
Some things to try, that helped with youtube on a Ubuntu laptop:
sed -e "/^resample-method =/s/.*/resample-method=trivial/" -e "/default-sample-rate =/s/.*/default-sample-rate = 48000/" -i /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
sed -e "/^load-module module-udev-detect/s/.*/load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0/" -i /etc/pulse/default.pa
I tried the one already that didn't do anything. I will try your first suggestion and see if it helps.

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