[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#393686: alsa-utils: hard lockup when running alsactl names

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 the mental interface of
Vincent.McIntyre at csiro.au told:

> > [...]
> > > I still get a hard lockup.
> > > The file ~/asound_user.names is not created.
> > >
> > > I checked around in /var/log, all I could find were boot-time messages
> > > in /var/log/messages, eg
> > >   Oct 18 20:46:42 tinsley kernel: es1968: not attempting power management.
> > >   Oct 18 20:46:42 tinsley kernel: es1968: clocking to 48000
> >
> > Why do you need /etc/asound.names?
> 
> I don't necessarily. I don't really know what it is for. I tried alsactl
> names to see what devices alsa thought were there, and hit a hard lockup
> which I thought I should report.
> 
> > Is sound working properly?
> Sound is not working correctly. I can see sound devices and mucking around
> in alsamixer allows me to get a soft clicking sound if I turn the volume
> way up. But I have been unable to get any sound files to play back. My
> attempts so far have been with xmms and an mp3 file (the file is known
> good).

We have first to fix your soundsystem then.

[...]
> > Please provide the output of:
> > $ ls -al /dev/snd
> > witch has to look like:
> 
> user$ ls -al /dev/snd
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      140 2006-10-18 20:46 .
> drwxr-xr-x 15 root root    13620 2006-10-21 08:59 ..
> crw-rw----  1 root audio 116,  0 2006-10-18 20:46 controlC0
> crw-rw----  1 root audio 116,  8 2006-10-18 20:46 midiC0D0
> crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 24 2006-10-18 20:46 pcmC0D0c
> crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 16 2006-10-18 20:46 pcmC0D0p
> crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 33 2006-10-18 20:46 timer

That seems to be ok. Are you able to play your known good mp3 with
alsaplayer, mpg321 or similar? Make sure nothing is muted in
alsamixer.
Are you a member of group audio?
$ id

Hmm, all relevant packages are installed (etch versions) and I don't
know yet, what is wrong.

Did your sound ever works with older versions (kernel, alsa)?

Elimar


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