[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#523091: Bug#523091: alsa-utils: same here with more info

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:13:53PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

> What tells:
> # alsactl init

merkur:~/bin# alsactl init
Unknown hardware: "SI7018" "SigmaTel STAC9700,83,84,Silicon Laboratory Si3036,8 rev 1" "AC97a:83847600 AC97m:53494c21" "0x1043"
"0x1453"
Hardware is initialized using a guess method


A few more datapoints:


merkur:~/bin# cat /etc/modules
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
loop
sbp2


merkur:~/bin# cat /etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat.conf
install snd-pcm modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm $CMDLINE_OPTS && { modprobe --quiet snd-pcm-oss ; : ; }
install snd-mixer modprobe --ignore-install snd-mixer $CMDLINE_OPTS && { modprobe --quiet snd-mixer-oss ; : ; }
install snd-seq modprobe --ignore-install snd-seq $CMDLINE_OPTS && { modprobe --quiet snd-seq-midi ; modprobe --quiet snd-seq-oss ; : ; }


merkur:~/bin# lspci -v | grep -i audio
00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. SiS PCI Audio Accelerator
        Kernel driver in use: Trident4DWaveAudio


> rm /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
OK.

> Adjust your mixer i.e with alsamixer
Works. Might it be useful to have an option to dump the
/proc info screen into a file ?

> alsactl store
Works. Creates new /var/lib/alsa/asound.state.

> alsactl restore
Same problem:

Unknown hardware: "SI7018" "SigmaTel STAC9700,83,84,Silicon Laboratory Si3036,8 rev 1" "AC97a:83847600 AC97m:53494c21" "0x1043"
"0x1453"
Hardware is initialized using a guess method


Here's a diff before/after the above sequence. Nothing
remarkable, I guess:

--- /var/lib/alsa/asound.state.old	2009-04-16 17:20:09.000000000 +0200
+++ /var/lib/alsa/asound.state	2009-04-16 19:57:24.000000000 +0200
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
 		comment.dbmax 0
 		iface MIXER
 		name 'Master Playback Volume'
-		value.0 25
-		value.1 25
+		value.0 16
+		value.1 16
 	}
 	control.3 {
 		comment.access 'read write'
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 		comment.dbmax 0
 		iface MIXER
 		name 'Master Mono Playback Volume'
-		value 25
+		value 17
 	}
 	control.5 {
 		comment.access 'read write'
@@ -140,8 +140,8 @@
 		comment.dbmax 1200
 		iface MIXER
 		name 'CD Playback Volume'
-		value.0 25
-		value.1 25
+		value.0 9
+		value.1 9
 	}
 	control.16 {
 		comment.access 'read write'
@@ -180,8 +180,8 @@
 		comment.dbmax 1200
 		iface MIXER
 		name 'PCM Playback Volume'
-		value.0 25
-		value.1 25
+		value.0 9
+		value.1 9
 	}
 	control.20 {
 		comment.access 'read write'
@@ -316,31 +316,3 @@
 		value ffffffff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 	}
 }
-state.Modem {
-	control.1 {
-		comment.access 'read write'
-		comment.type BOOLEAN
-		comment.count 1
-		iface MIXER
-		name 'Off-hook Switch'
-		value true
-	}
-	control.2 {
-		comment.access 'read write'
-		comment.type BOOLEAN
-		comment.count 1
-		iface MIXER
-		name 'Caller ID Switch'
-		value true
-	}
-	control.3 {
-		comment.access 'read write'
-		comment.type INTEGER
-		comment.count 2
-		comment.range '0 - 3'
-		iface MIXER
-		name 'Modem Speaker Volume'
-		value.0 1
-		value.1 1
-	}
-}




/etc/modprobe.d/sound does not exist
/etc/modprobe.sound.conf does not exist


Karsten
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