I tried speake test in i3 and it won't work:

$ speaker-test -t wav -c 2

speaker-test 1.0.29

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card 'PCH'
ALSA lib conf.c:4260:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4260:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4260:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:4739:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2267:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM sysdefault
Playback open error: -19,No such device


On Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 5:42:13 AM UTC-8, tuxracer wrote:

So, I installed alsa and pulseaudio and alsa plugin then made simlink /etc/sv/alsa to /var/service and /etc/sv/pulseaudio to /var/service as well but system is not detecting any soundcard. alxamixer returns blank and nothing to configure. What went wrong?