[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#481515: alsa-utils: 'alsactl restore' fails on ICE1724 soundcards

[Martin Roll]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.16-1
Severity: normal


Invoking 'alsactl restore' on a system with an ICE1724 soundcard (Terratec Aureon 7.1 Universe in my case) leads to the following error messages:

alsactl: set_control:1300: incompatible field type for control #1
alsactl: set_control:1300: incompatible field type for control #56


At system boot it looks like this:

Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'alsactl: set_control:1300: incompatible field type for control #1
alsactl: set_control:1300: incompatible field type for control #56'...done.


It seems that this issue is specific to ICE1724 chipsets. I discovered the same issue on another machine with the same soundcard.
To verify this, I installed the same package versions on a third machine with an Intel AD1983 and got no errors.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20080316-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  libasound2                1.0.16-2       ALSA library
ii  libc6                     2.7-10         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080503-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base          1.0.16-1.1     base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-12         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools         3.4-1          tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  pciutils                  1:3.0.0-4      Linux PCI Utilities
ii  python                    2.5.2-1        An interactive high-level object-o
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-11.2    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base                     1.0.16-1.1 ALSA driver configuration files
ii  udev                          0.114-2    /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

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