[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#411305: running alsa-utils at boot breaks sound configuration

Elimar Riesebieter riesebie at lxtec.de
Fri Aug 10 18:43:59 UTC 2007


On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 the mental interface of
Micha Lenk told:

> Hi Elimar,
> 
> you wrote:
[...]
> > How did you configured your soundcard?
> 
> AFAIR I never explicitly configured my soundcard and the sound card simply
> worked (using KDE system sounds and so on). But some days ago I ran into
> trouble. Unfortunately I can't reconstruct whether I ran alsaconf or
> installed an additional package (i.e. alsa-utils). The initscript then
> started to output a lot of syntax messages as described in step 6 of the
> initial bug report. I investigated a little and figured out, that the
> first error occurs when the (original unpatched) alsa-util's initscript
> calls this command (probably in line 115 when calling
> unmute_and_set_level() from line 143):
> 
> + amixer -c 0 set Master 80% unmute
> Invalid card number.
> Usage: amixer <options> [command]

What tells:
$ cat /proc/asound/cards

Elimar


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