[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#661076: warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'Unknown hardware: "VIA8237"

Piotr upiter77 at lycos.com
Fri Feb 24 00:13:20 UTC 2012


Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-2
Severity: normal


Hi

During the squeeze startup I get this message on the screen:

Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'Unknown hardware: "VIA8237" "Realtek ALC655 rev 0" "AC97a:414c4760" "0x1462" "0xb012"

but the sound works.

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800 Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge
00:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] (rev a2)

# lsmod | grep snd
snd_pcm_oss            28671  0 
snd_mixer_oss          10461  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_via82xx            15256  1 
gameport                6061  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec         79200  1 snd_via82xx
ac97_bus                 710  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                47226  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_page_alloc          5045  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         4067  1 snd_via82xx
snd_seq_midi            3576  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      3684  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi            12513  2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                35463  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              12270  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          3673  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    34423  12 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               3450  1 snd

# dpkg -l | grep alsa
ii  alsa-base                            1.0.23+dfsg-2                     ALSA driver configuration files
ii  alsa-utils                           1.0.23-3                          Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa                   0.10.30-1                         GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa           1.10.10-3                         Portable Windows Library Audio Plugin for the ALSA Interface
ii  libsdl1.2debian-alsa                 1.2.14-6.1                        Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and ALSA options)

greetings
Piotr




-- Package-specific info:
--- Begin additional package status ---
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  libasound2     1.0.23-2.1     shared library for ALSA applications
--- End additional package status ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/version ---
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
--- End /proc/asound/version ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/cards ---
 0 [V8237          ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
                      VIA 8237 with ALC655 at 0xec00, irq 22
--- End /proc/asound/cards ---
--- Begin /dev/snd/ listing ---
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      60 Feb 23 19:26 by-path
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 8 Feb 23 19:26 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 7 Feb 23 19:26 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 6 Feb 23 19:26 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 5 Feb 23 19:26 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 4 Feb 23 19:26 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 3 Feb 23 19:26 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 2 Feb 23 19:26 timer
--- End /dev/snd/ listing ---

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  linux-sound-base           1.0.23+dfsg-2 base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsof                       4.81.dfsg.1-1 List open files
ii  module-init-tools          3.12-2+b1     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                       164-3         /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages alsa-base recommends:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.23-3   Utilities for configuring and usin

Versions of packages alsa-base suggests:
pn  alsa-oss                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  apmd                          <none>     (no description available)
pn  oss-compat                    <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.3-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

-- no debconf information





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