Re: [gentoo-user] soundcards inconsistent

[Michael Schreckenbauer]

Hi again,

Am Mittwoch, 19. April 2006 21:12 schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer:
> Dear gentoo-users,
> yesterday I recognized a strange problem with my soundcards. I have two
> soundcards in my system. A Soundblaster, ens1371 based, and a Terratec
> DMX6Fire, which uses an ice1712 chip. The Soundblaster is used as the
> primary soundcard, recording from tape or vinyl and stereo playback, the
> ice1712 one is used for 5.1 playback of dvds.
> So, the normal situation is as follows:
> ~ $ cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [AudioPCI       ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
>                       Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xc000, irq 16
>  1 [DMX6Fire       ]: ICE1712 - TerraTec DMX6Fire
>                       TerraTec DMX6Fire at 0xc400, irq 19
>
> Now, after boot, I _sometimes_ get this one:
>
> ~ $ cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [DMX6Fire       ]: ICE1712 - TerraTec DMX6Fire
>                       TerraTec DMX6Fire at 0xc400, irq 19
>  1 [AudioPCI       ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
>                       Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xc000, irq 16
>
> which I don't want, because I always have to adjust my applications ;)
> After executing /etc/init.d/alsasound restart, things are as expected.
> Some more info:
> ~ $ uname -a
> Linux pc 2.6.15-gentoo-r3 #2 Mon Feb 27 22:36:46 CET 2006 i686 AMD
> Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ GNU/Linux
>
>  ~ $ cat /proc/asound/version
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.11rc5.
> Compiled on Apr 12 2006 for kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r3.
>
> ~ $ eix ^udev$
> * sys-fs/udev
>      Available versions:  068-r1 069 070-r1 071 072 073 077 077-r1 077-r2
> 077-r3 077-r4 077-r5 078 079 079-r1 081 081-r1 084 085 086 087 089 089-r1
> 089-r2 090
>      Installed:           090
>      Homepage:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html
>      Description:         Linux dynamic and persistent device naming
> support (aka userspace devfs)
>
> Found 1 matches
>
> ~ $ cat /etc/modules.d/alsa
> # Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file.
> #
> $Header:
> /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,
>v 1.1 2003/08/05 21:07:55 johnm Exp $
>
> # ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> # OSS/Free portion
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
>
> ##
> ## IMPORTANT:
> ## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)
> ## and then run `update-modules' command.
> ## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.
> ##
> ##  ALSA portion
> alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
> alias snd-card-1 snd-ice1712
> ##  OSS/Free portion
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
> ##
>
> # OSS/Free portion - card #1
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> ##  OSS/Free portion - card #2
> alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
> alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
> alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
> alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
>
> options snd-card-1 model=dmx6fire
>
> # Set this to the correct number of cards.
>
> options snd cards_limit=2
>
> I searched bugzilla for sound, alsa and udev, but found nothing useful.
> Well http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128601 sounds similar, but it's
> about cdroms and an older version of udev.
> Any idea, what's the problem here?

as an update, I am now using alsa-1.0.11 and the problem persists. Interesting 
thing is, that this only happens on some boots. Is there anybody who can give 
me a hint, where I can start to look? Are some more infos needed? 

Hand,
Michael
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