Cava not working (snd_aloop is not by default loaded)

Ankur · 1 October 2023 15:47

Hello,
I am facing the problem of cava not working , it requres snd_aloop
so I loaded it through

sudo modprobe snd_aloop

but then the cava was not working properly because whenever I played any music it’s output won’t detected by cava and bars won’t move up and down .
then for resolving that I installed ALSA and jack support
the bars properly started moving
but there is one thing I want to do

I want to load snd_aloop at startup

trying to find it from internet mostly either the cava problem is not solved or if it’s solved then the user got it solved by installing it from aur and something happened miracle and got it solved ?

garuda inxi

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NaN · 1 October 2023 17:12

To automatically load any module on boot

create a file under /etc/modules-load.d/ such as using

sudo vim /etc/modules-load.d/cava.conf

The name of file doesn’t matter it should have a .conf extension at end. This file should contain following line

snd_aloop

To insert this line press i to enter insert mode type the module name or if you have it in clipboard press Esc then type :r !xsel -o -b to paste clipboard text.

Once done press Esc following this ZZ (yes they are capital z) to save and exit.

Now reboot and check. Hopefully this vim tutorial was helpful

You can check if module is available or not using

lsmod | grep snd_aloop

Ankur · 2 October 2023 06:31

NaN:

To insert this line press i to enter insert mode type the module name or if you have it in clipboard press Esc then type :r !xsel -o -b to paste clipboard text.

Once done press Esc following this ZZ (yes they are capital z) to save and exit.

Now reboot and check. Hopefully this vim tutorial was helpful

You can check if module is available or not using
lsmod | grep snd_aloop

Mmm… actually you don’t need to give me a tutorial of vim
I am using neovim for almost 3 years now
BTW, you seems to have a much more experience than me of vim
I would just press i to insert and the press ctr+shift+v to paste
and :wq to save and exit
BTW, I am very noobi
2023-10-02T11:45:16,083780188+05:30
using mouse in “visual” mode

Okay , so I did whatever you said :

 ╭─ankur@ankur in ~ took 8ms
 ╰─λ lsmod | ugrep snd_aloop
snd_aloop              40960  1
snd_pcm               204800  10 snd_soc_avs,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_aloop,snd_soc_skl,snd_hda_core,snd_pcm_dmaengine
snd_timer              53248  4 snd_seq,snd_hrtimer,snd_aloop,snd_pcm
snd                   155648  20 snd_ctl_led,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_timer,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_aloop,snd_pcm

cava is now running but there is a problem, it seems like cava only detects sound when I install or uninstall ALSA and don’t restart , when I restart it again the bars of cava stop moving up and down :

It seems like something (maybe some components of ALSA itself) gets activated when I install or uninstall the ALSA support . But when I restart those components may not get loaded .

SGS · 2 October 2023 07:03

Why simple, when it is also complicated possible with vim.
I could bet @tbg can make a one-liner out of this too.

su
echo -e snd_aloop >> /etc/modules-load.d/cava.conf

or use micro or kate

NaN · 2 October 2023 09:58

I see you are a man of culture. I use “vim” btw, not neovim here I had to create the ctrl+shift + v keybinding to paste contents of my clipboard to vim

vnoremap <C-C> :w !xsel -i -b<CR>
vnoremap <C-V> :r !xsel -o -b<CR>

This sounds very challenging…

I have tried them before but any text editor just makes me cringe so hard at this point that I end up throwing my work away and setting up vim first the convenience of it’s key bindings is mind altering. Unless it’s something that needs libreoffice I prefer using vim or at-least setup vim keybindings.

SGS · 2 October 2023 10:03

Open kate- new document- paste snd_aloop- save as file under /etc/modules-load.d/cava.conf- type sudo passwd, ready.

On server I use micro.

Ankur · 2 October 2023 10:56

I started with vim actually , I used to setup my own configs , which included some minor things like test highlighting and :set number command in .vimrc
then I found neovim and yeah all keybindings that I used where same plus it was already configured that way I liked so I settled down there .(few months ago I was a boy of culture now I am legally a man of culture )

BTW I was just trying to restart ALSA ,
it gives me something like :

 ╭─ankur@ankur in ~ 
 ╰─λ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop
     sudo alsa force-reload
     sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start
[sudo] password for ankur:            
sudo: /etc/init.d/alsa-utils: command not found
sudo: alsa: command not found
sudo: /etc/init.d/alsa-utils: command not found

IDK , if I am doing it right

I thiught you would might be a person with long white beard using emacs

NaN · 2 October 2023 11:44

Hmm these are the binaries that alsa-utils provides

pacman -Ql alsa-utils | grep /usr/bin/
alsa-utils /usr/bin/
alsa-utils /usr/bin/aconnect
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsa-info.sh
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsabat
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsabat-test.sh
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsactl
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsaloop
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsamixer
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsatplg
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsaucm
alsa-utils /usr/bin/amidi
alsa-utils /usr/bin/amixer
alsa-utils /usr/bin/aplay
alsa-utils /usr/bin/aplaymidi
alsa-utils /usr/bin/arecord
alsa-utils /usr/bin/arecordmidi
alsa-utils /usr/bin/aseqdump
alsa-utils /usr/bin/aseqnet
alsa-utils /usr/bin/axfer
alsa-utils /usr/bin/iecset
alsa-utils /usr/bin/nhlt-dmic-info
alsa-utils /usr/bin/speaker-test

Apart from that perhaps it’s something related to these services,

pacman -Ql alsa-utils | grep systemd
alsa-utils /usr/lib/systemd/
alsa-utils /usr/lib/systemd/system/
alsa-utils /usr/lib/systemd/system/alsa-restore.service
alsa-utils /usr/lib/systemd/system/alsa-state.service
alsa-utils /usr/lib/systemd/system/sound.target.wants/
alsa-utils /usr/lib/systemd/system/sound.target.wants/alsa-restore.service
alsa-utils /usr/lib/systemd/system/sound.target.wants/alsa-state.service

Sorry can’t really help much since I don’t know anything about alsa.

system · 16 October 2023 11:44

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