Re: [gentoo-user] alsa: missing default device

[Walter Dnes]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 02:59:17PM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 07:22:12PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 05:49:10PM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote
> >
> > > * I toggled those settings and rebuilt, but the result is still the same.
> >
> >   You may have to configure your sound card setup manually.  It's not as
> > scarey as it sounds.  First question; what's the output of the command...
> >
> >
> > cat /proc/asound/cards
>
> Here you go, plus the contents of a few others and the tree of that dir.

  First an elementary question.  Please don't treat this as an insult.
Do you have the "alsasound" service running?  I have an openrc machine.
I don't know the equivalant systemd commands.  As a regular user, execute

/sbin/rc-update show

...and alsasound should show up near the top.  If it doesn't, that's
probably your problem.  In that case use su or sudo for root privileges
and execute the following 2 commands as root...

rc-update add alsasound boot
/etc/init.d/alsasound start

  The first command will cause alsasound to run at every bootup; the
second command is just for this time only, so you don't have to reboot.
Try playing sound again.

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  If that doesn't work for you, "Plan B" is to create a .asoundrc file
in your home directory.  It will over-ride /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf and
you won't need root permissions to edit it.  If you want the PCH
(analog?) to be the default, enter the following 3 lines in ~/.asoundrc

defaults.ctl.card 0
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0

  If you want the HDMI as your default, enter in ~/.asoundrc

defaults.ctl.card 1
defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.pcm.device 1

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications