[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#540254: Bug#540254: Bug#540254: alsa-utils: update

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 07:44:32PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

> > > cat /proc/asounf/cards
> > 
> >  0 [SI7018         ]: SI7018 - SiS SI7018
> >                       SiS SI7018 PCI Audio at 0xd000, irq 3
> >  1 [Modem          ]: ICH-MODEM - SiS SI7013 Modem
> >                       SiS SI7013 Modem at irq 5
> 
> Do you need the modem?

I don't use it presently. It is fairly unlikely I will in
the foreseeable future either. It won't be a problem to
disable it for the time being (the BIOS doesn't allow me to
do that, however).

> > > cat /etc/modules.conf | grep snd
> 
> What the hell is that file for. modutils isn't present since ages.

Oh, ye olde days !

Well, this laptop's been apt-get upgraded over the years all
the way from Sarge, I think (I never did anything weird to
it, though). It was usually running Testing being upgraded a
few weeks after each Stable got released. So this file may
well have been left over at one stage or another.

> This file can be deleted completely. Its an heritage from kernels <
> 2.6.6.

Done. Makes no difference (as can be expected).

> Could you please rmmod snd_intel8x0m and test again.

Script started on Di 11 Aug 2009 11:04:02 CEST

merkur:~/alsa-problem# /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
Shutting down ALSA...done.
Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message '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
/usr/share/alsa/init/default:51: control element not found
/usr/share/alsa/init/default:52: missing closing brace for format
/usr/share/alsa/init/default:52: error parsing CTL attribute
/usr/share/alsa/init/default:52: invalid rule'...done.

merkur:~/alsa-problem# lsmod | grep snd_intel
snd_intel8x0m          12228  0 
snd_ac97_codec         91272  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_trident
snd_pcm                62368  5 snd_intel8x0m,snd_trident,snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_codec
snd                    49024  19 snd_intel8x0m,snd_trident,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
snd_page_alloc          8152  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_trident,snd_pcm

merkur:~/alsa-problem# rmmod snd_intel8x0m

merkur:~/alsa-problem# lsmod | grep snd_intel

merkur:~/alsa-problem# /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
Shutting down ALSA...done.
Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message '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
/usr/share/alsa/init/default:51: control element not found
/usr/share/alsa/init/default:52: missing closing brace for format
/usr/share/alsa/init/default:52: error parsing CTL attribute
/usr/share/alsa/init/default:52: invalid rule'...done.
merkur:~/alsa-problem# exit
exit

Script done on Di 11 Aug 2009 11:05:36 CEST

> BTW, can you hear sound.

That's never been a problem. Sound works just fine both
before and after removing the snd_intel8x0m module.

Karsten
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