[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#710059: amixer: Broken, says "Could not find the specified element"

[Adrian Knoth]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.27-3
Severity: important

Hi!

Your version of amixer is broken. Reported via IRC in #lad by delYsid
and verified myself.

adi at foh:/opt/adi-src/alsa-utils/amixer$ /usr/bin/amixer -c 4 cset \
numid=1 0,0,0
Could not find the specified element

Expected behaviour:
adi at foh:/opt/adi-src/alsa-utils/amixer$ ./amixer -c 4 cset numid=1 0,0,0
numid=1,iface=HWDEP,name='Mixer'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw-v----,values=3,min=0,max=65535,step=1
    : values=0,0,0


This has already been fixed upstream:

$ git show d61924fd247c2cf0280391e076c439c9427732aa
commit d61924fd247c2cf0280391e076c439c9427732aa
Author: Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Date:   Mon May 27 16:40:26 2013 +0200

amixer: Fix the hctl elem search bug
        
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>


Note that this fix will be released as alsa-1.0.27.2. If you update,
either update to this version or cherry-pick the commit.


Cheers

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9.4 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  kmod            9-3
ii  libasound2      1.0.27-4
ii  libc6           2.17-3
ii  libncursesw5    5.9+20130504-1
ii  libsamplerate0  0.1.8-5
ii  libtinfo5       5.9+20130504-1
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian11
ii  whiptail        0.52.15-1

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base  1.0.25+3

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

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