On 09/20/2013 08:40 PM, drew craig wrote:
On Friday, September 13, 2013 10:00:03 AM UTC-4, Lisi Reisz wrote:
The problem has arisen since I upgraded. Sound was fine in Squeeze.
Now, when I run alsamixergui:
lisi@Tux-II:~$ alsamixergui
I get an error box saying:
alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: invalid argument
No pulseaudia is installed.
I get the same problem on a fresh install of Wheezy on my husband's box.
on-board sound on my box: chipset Intel Z77 Express chipset
root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# lshw | grep snd
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
I have no idea where to look. I have googled the error message, and get a
lot of hits. It is obviously a common error, but I could see no solutions
that seemed to fit my situation. Probably couldn't see the wood for the
trees. :-(
Two people had succeeded by purging everything Alsa related and installing
Alsa from upstream, though one of them had to run snddevices after every
boot. Hardly satisfactory, especially on my husband's box.
Any suggestions, please? Ought I to purge and install from upstream? In
general, I prefer to stick to Debian versions.
Thanks for any help,
Lisi
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I ran into an alsa issue awhile back and solved it by altering the conf file.
May or may not be of any help. I wrote it up here
http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=409
I hope I am not hyjacking this thread but, while my problem seems to be
somewhat different, it still started with a wheezy upgrade that killed
my sound system. I don't think that any one has identified the root
cause of this problem and are kind of using a shot gun approach to the
problem solving. So let me get as specific as I can. Running as root
'service alsa-utils restart' produced the following return:
root@mysystem:/etc# service alsa-utils restart
[ ok ] Shutting down ALSA...done.
[....] Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with
error message 'Home directory /root not ours.'...Home
directory /root not ours....
Can anyone explain this error message and suggest a fix.
I hope my above statement doesn't insult anyone. I know a lot of effort
has gone into this thread. But my observation still stands. I'm finding
references to this problem all over google but no reasonable solutions.
I can't believe that there are more than one or two actual problems
here. Programs just don't usually break in multiple ways all at the same
time.
Gary R