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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Help with battling alsa-lib versions
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:27:46
Message-Id: 20080612042740.GA19387@waltdnes.org
1 If I emerge whichever version of alsa-lib-1.0.16 is current, mplayer,
2 audacious, and anything else that relies on alsa don't play audio.
3 However, Realplayer (bleagh) and anything that works off of OSS
4 emulation still works.
5
6 If i put...
7 >=media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.14_rc1-r1
8
9 ...into /etc/portage/package.mask, and emerge the older version of
10 alsa-lib, the above programs work fine, but alsactl dies like so...
11
12 [m3000][root][~] alsactl store
13 alsactl: relocation error: alsactl: symbol snd_tlv_parse_dB_info,
14 version ALSA_0.9 not defined in file libasound.so.2 with link time
15 reference
16
17 [m3000][root][~] alsactl restore
18 alsactl: relocation error: alsactl: symbol snd_ctl_get_dB_range, version
19 ALSA_0.9 not defined in file libasound.so.2 with link time reference
20
21 ...which means that settings can't be saved/restored at shutdown/reboot.
22 This is a PITA, because I have to manually run alsamixer after each
23 reboot, and unmute and re-set all the audio settings. This is the
24 lesser of 2 evils, because no alsa sound is a showstopper. What am I
25 doing wrong?
26
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