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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:59:40
Message-Id: 1129992535.9855.10.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes by Mark Knecht
1 On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 07:30 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On 10/22/05, Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > >
4 > > I built and rebooted with the vanilla kernel 2.6.14-rc5 and
5 > > started /etc/init.d/alsasound:
6 > >
7 > > camille ~ # /etc/init.d/alsasound start
8 > > * Loading ALSA modules ...
9 > > * Loading: snd-card-0 ...
10 > > [ ok ] * Loading: snd-seq-oss ...
11 > > [ ok ] * Loading: snd-pcm-oss ...
12 > > [ ok ] * Restoring Mixer Levels ...
13 > > * No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card!
14 > > [ ok ]
15 >
16 > rm /etc/asound.state and then try rerunning alsamixer? If that doesn't
17 > work then remove it again, re-emerge the following packages, and try
18 > again. I think you must be very close
19 >
20 >
21 > dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv alsa-tools alsa-utils alsa-lib alsa-headers
22 > alsa-jack alsa-oss alsa-firmware
23 >
24 > >
25 > > camille ~ # emerge -vp alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-tools
26 > >
27 > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
28 > >
29 > > Calculating dependencies ...done!
30 > > [ebuild R ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.10_rc2 +doc +jack* 0 kB
31 > > [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.10_rc2 +nls 0 kB
32 > > [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-tools-1.0.8-r1 +X 0 kB
33 > >
34 > >
35 >
36 >
37 > >
38 > > alsamixer and amixer still refuse to start. When I restart /etc/init.d/alsasound it gives me an alsactl error on stopping:
39 >
40 > When the Alsa developers update the driver for a card the numbering of
41 > the controls often changes. For this reason any time there is a major
42 > change to the driver you often need to delete the existing
43 > asound.state card and create a new one that matches the driver.
44 >
45 > I think you'll get there today. (Long slog...)
46 >
47 > - Mark
48 >
49
50 There is no /etc/asound.state to remove. There never was. I haven't
51 been able to generate one since I've had this computer.
52
53 camille ~ # emerge -pv alsa-tools alsa-utils alsa-lib alsa-headers
54 alsa-jack alsa-oss alsa-firmware
55
56 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
57
58 Calculating dependencies ...done!
59 [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-tools-1.0.9 +X 0 kB
60 [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.10_rc2 +nls 0 kB
61 [ebuild R ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.10_rc2 +doc +jack* 0 kB
62 [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.10_rc2 0 kB
63 [ebuild R ] media-plugins/alsa-jack-1.0.10_rc1 0 kB
64 [ebuild R ] media-libs/alsa-oss-1.0.10_rc2 0 kB
65 [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-firmware-1.0.9 0 kB
66
67 Total size of downloads: 0 kB
68
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>
Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>