[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#448263: Bug#448263: alsa-source: artsd fails to start with ALSA 1.0.15 and sound has to be unmuted in kde

[Arthur Marsh]

Elimar Riesebieter wrote, on 28/10/07 05:33:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 the mental interface of
> Arthur Marsh told:
> 
>> Package: alsa-source
>> Version: 1.0.15-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>>
>> I compiled alsa-source 1.0.15 as I have done so for earlier ALSA 
>> versions. With alsa-driver 1.0.15, KDE's artsd fails to start and I have 
>> to unmute the mixer settings in kmix (ie sound doesn't work 
>> automatically on logging in to kde but must be enabled manually).
> 
> Is alsa-utils installed?
> 
> Elimar

Yes alsa-utils 1.0.14-2 is installed, and running:

sh /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset

sets the mixer to a reasonable starting point (un-muted, faders raised).

I then upgraded to alsa-base, alsa-source and alsa-tools 1.0.15-2, and 
alsa-utils 1.0.15-1, recompiled and installed the new modules using:

cd /usr/src
bzip2 -dc alsa-driver.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0
cd /usr/src/linux
make-kpkg modules-image
cd ..
dpkg -i alsa*1.0.15-2*deb

and restarted, but still had the same problem of the mixer starting in a 
fully muted state.

Arthur.