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

[Vincent.McIntyre at csiro.au]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:


> 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.

alsaplayer - very faint and muffled sound.
mpg321 - no discernable sound

> Are you a member of group audio?
> $ id
$ id
uid=1000(vjm) gid=1000(vjm) 
groups=20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),50(staff),1000(vjm)

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

yes, with the last install I had on this machine (Ubuntu Breezy) I was 
able to play mp3's with xmms and I think the oss driver.
The system I have on the machine now is a bare-metal reinstall on a fresh
hard disk, with the etch rc3 installer.

After I installed alsaplayer and mpg321, I went and ran alsaconf.
Just to see what would happen. I can't recall if I ran alsaconf before.
I _think_ I did.

When I ran alsaconf, it prompted me about updating /etc/modprobe.d/sound.
I checked, and I didn't have that file.

$ ls -lt /etc/modprobe.d/
total 28
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    41 2006-10-15 19:50 linux-sound-base_noOSS -> 
/lib/linux-sound-base/noOSS.modprobe.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16153 2006-09-11 18:44 alsa-base
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  1024 2006-09-06 01:31 arch
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     9 2006-09-06 01:31 arch-aliases -> arch/i386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   156 2006-08-17 04:36 alsa-base-blacklist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4360 2006-06-03 22:52 aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1406 2006-05-30 10:00 blacklist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   284 2006-05-30 10:00 display_class
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   363 2006-05-30 10:00 pnp-hotplug

So I continued on, and it found my Maestro card and a "legacy probe ISA"
thing. I accepted the default choice of device/driver, es1968.

The /etc/modprobe.d directory was updated to this:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    55 2006-10-22 13:18 sound
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    41 2006-10-15 19:50 linux-sound-base_noOSS -> 
/lib/linux-sound-base/noOSS.modprobe.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16153 2006-09-11 18:44 alsa-base
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  1024 2006-09-06 01:31 arch
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     9 2006-09-06 01:31 arch-aliases -> arch/i386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   156 2006-08-17 04:36 alsa-base-blacklist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4360 2006-06-03 22:52 aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1406 2006-05-30 10:00 blacklist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   284 2006-05-30 10:00 display_class
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   363 2006-05-30 10:00 pnp-hotplug


The terminal output from alsaconf was as follows...
root# alsaconf
Terminating processes: 3876 3908.
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-es1968 snd-ac97-codec 
snd-ac97-bus snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc 
snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device.
Building card database...


Running update-modules...
Loading driver...
Setting default volumes...


===============================================================================

  Now ALSA is ready to use.
  For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

  Have a lot of fun!
root#
---------------------------------------end-------------------------------------

Now, sound is working: xmms, alsaplayer, mpg321 all play the mp3 file 
perfectly. I can adjust volume with the hardware control, xfmixer and
using the sliders in xmms or alsaplayer. So that's some progress.
Thanks!

I still don't see /etc/asound.names. I got another hard lockup running

   root# alsactl names

but didn't try the -f option or as a normal user.


Cheers
Vince