Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:24, Harold Naparst wrote: snip and then: /etc/init.d/alsasound restart * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... /usr/sbin/alsactl: get_control:149: Cannot read control info '2,0,0,Front Playback Volume,0': Invalid argument [ !! ] * Unloading ALSA ... Looks like the saved mixer settings are corrupt. Find where they live, (/etc/asound.state?) delete or move them, and then load again. Should recreate the default mixer data and then you can play with the volumes to get them set up again. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes
Well, I rebooted and then it worked. So, who knows what's going on... But while we're at it, should I choose six channel or two-channel mode, and what's the deal with the three input sources on the right side of alsamixer? On 11/23/05, Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:24, Harold Naparst wrote:snip and then: /etc/init.d/alsasound restart * WARNING:you are stopping a boot service.* Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... /usr/sbin/alsactl: get_control:149: Cannot read control info '2,0,0,Front Playback Volume,0': Invalid argument [ !! ] * Unloading ALSA ...Looks like the saved mixer settings are corrupt. Find where they live,(/etc/asound.state?) delete or move them, and then load again. Shouldrecreate the default mixer data and then you can play with the volumes to get them set up again.--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes
On 11/17/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got my new computer about a month ago. It uses the snd-hda-intel ALSA driver. SNIP I remerged alsa-driver. Unless your sound card is a special case you should not emerge alsa-driver. The alsa-driver is included in the kernel. Just a thought. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:24 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On 11/17/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got my new computer about a month ago. It uses the snd-hda-intel ALSA driver. SNIP I remerged alsa-driver. Unless your sound card is a special case you should not emerge alsa-driver. The alsa-driver is included in the kernel. Just a thought. Cheers, Mark When I first got this computer and I couldn't get my sound to work I emailed this list asking for help. A lot of people on the list told me to use ALSA compiled into my kernel with support for my card, but I could never get it to work. I finally got it to work by not enabling ALSA in my kernel and emerging alsa-driver. Now alsa-driver has stopped working. It seems unlikely that what wouldn't work before (namely compiling ALSA support into my kernel) would work now... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes
On 11/17/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:24 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On 11/17/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got my new computer about a month ago. It uses the snd-hda-intel ALSA driver. SNIP I remerged alsa-driver. Unless your sound card is a special case you should not emerge alsa-driver. The alsa-driver is included in the kernel. Just a thought. Cheers, Mark When I first got this computer and I couldn't get my sound to work I emailed this list asking for help. A lot of people on the list told me to use ALSA compiled into my kernel with support for my card, but I could never get it to work. I finally got it to work by not enabling ALSA in my kernel and emerging alsa-driver. Now alsa-driver has stopped working. It seems unlikely that what wouldn't work before (namely compiling ALSA support into my kernel) would work now... OK, but you are not running the same kernel today that you were running a month ago, correct? Are you running the same version of alsa-driver, or is it newer? Did you possibly choose testing before and grabbed stable this time? (~x86 vs. x86) I would assume that if you choose exactly the software you used before you will get exactly the same results. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes
Which kernel were you using before the new kernel install. I did also have some problems when i upgraded from 2.6.13 to 2.6.14. Check that your kernel config is correct. In my case the config hasn't been correct. Cheers Uwe Michael Sullivan wrote: I got my new computer about a month ago. It uses the snd-hda-intel ALSA driver. I fought with it for a week or two and finally got it working with alsa-driver (it wouldn't work when I attempted to compile ALSA support for the card into the kernel.) Yesterday it just kind of stopped. I've just rebuild kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 (removing SMP support - someone told me last time that it might cause a problem) and before I rebuilt the kernel I removed all the old modules from /lib/modules for this kernel. I remerged alsa-driver. I try to start /etc/init.d/alsamixer and I hear the little click/pop sound out of my speakers that tells me that Gentoo has activated my sound card. I try to run alsamixer to unmute the card, but I get an error: camille ~ # /etc/init.d/alsasound start * Loading ALSA modules ... * Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-seq-oss ... [ ok ] * Restoring Mixer Levels ... * No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card! [ ok ]camille ~ # alsamixer alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument The funny thing is that when I reload gnome-panel (killall gnome-panel) I have a volume control applet there. It's muted, but I slide the volume bar up. On File-Change Device (in the volume control applet) it claims to be using Realtek ALC880 (OSS Mixer), but I can't hear any sound from any of my other applications (including by selecting the OSS Mixer in xmms.) After I turn the volume up in the volume control applet if I go back to my terminal and try to run alsamixer again I get the same stupid error message, and if I restart /etc/init.d/alsasound I get this: camille ~ # /etc/init.d/alsasound restart * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... /usr/sbin/alsactl: get_control:149: Cannot read control info '2,0,0,Front Playback Volume,0': Invalid argument [ !! ] * Unloading ALSA ... [ ok ] * Unloading ALSA modules ... [ ok ] * Loading ALSA modules ... * Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-seq-oss ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-pcm-oss ... [ ok ] * Restoring Mixer Levels ... * No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card! [ ok ] I have an /etc/asound.state backed up. When I restore it and restart /etc/init.d/alsasound I get this: camille ~ # /etc/init.d/alsasound restart * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... /usr/sbin/alsactl: get_control:149: Cannot read control info '2,0,0,Front Playback Volume,0': Invalid argument [ !! ] * Unloading ALSA ... [ ok ] * Unloading ALSA modules ... [ ok ] * Loading ALSA modules ... * Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-seq-oss ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-pcm-oss ... [ ok ] * Restoring Mixer Levels ... /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:873: failed to obtain info for control #1 (Invalid argument) * Errors while restoring defaults, ignoring [ ok ] Any thoughts on how to get my sound back, or why it just quit in the first place? begin:vcard fn:Uwe Klosa n:Klosa;Uwe org:Uppsala University;Electronic Publishing Centre adr:;;;Uppsala;;75120;Sweden email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:+46 (0)18 471 7658 url:http://publications.uu.se/epcentre version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:55 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On 11/17/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:24 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On 11/17/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got my new computer about a month ago. It uses the snd-hda-intel ALSA driver. SNIP I remerged alsa-driver. Unless your sound card is a special case you should not emerge alsa-driver. The alsa-driver is included in the kernel. Just a thought. Cheers, Mark When I first got this computer and I couldn't get my sound to work I emailed this list asking for help. A lot of people on the list told me to use ALSA compiled into my kernel with support for my card, but I could never get it to work. I finally got it to work by not enabling ALSA in my kernel and emerging alsa-driver. Now alsa-driver has stopped working. It seems unlikely that what wouldn't work before (namely compiling ALSA support into my kernel) would work now... OK, but you are not running the same kernel today that you were running a month ago, correct? Are you running the same version of alsa-driver, or is it newer? Did you possibly choose testing before and grabbed stable this time? (~x86 vs. x86) I would assume that if you choose exactly the software you used before you will get exactly the same results. - Mark It did. Until yesterday. I was playing an MP3 in xmms and the sound just stopped. I couldn't get sound out of anything, and when I tried rebooting (and therefore restarting /etc/init.d/alsasound) it started giving me those stupid errors... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 16:55 +0100, Uwe Klosa wrote: Which kernel were you using before the new kernel install. I did also have some problems when i upgraded from 2.6.13 to 2.6.14. Check that your kernel config is correct. In my case the config hasn't been correct. Cheers Uwe Michael Sullivan wrote: I got my new computer about a month ago. It uses the snd-hda-intel ALSA driver. I fought with it for a week or two and finally got it working with alsa-driver (it wouldn't work when I attempted to compile ALSA support for the card into the kernel.) Yesterday it just kind of stopped. I've just rebuild kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 (removing SMP support - someone told me last time that it might cause a problem) and before I rebuilt the kernel I removed all the old modules from /lib/modules for this kernel. I remerged alsa-driver. I try to start /etc/init.d/alsamixer and I hear the little click/pop sound out of my speakers that tells me that Gentoo has activated my sound card. I try to run alsamixer to unmute the card, but I get an error: camille ~ # /etc/init.d/alsasound start * Loading ALSA modules ... * Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-seq-oss ... [ ok ] * Restoring Mixer Levels ... * No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card! [ ok ]camille ~ # alsamixer alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument The funny thing is that when I reload gnome-panel (killall gnome-panel) I have a volume control applet there. It's muted, but I slide the volume bar up. On File-Change Device (in the volume control applet) it claims to be using Realtek ALC880 (OSS Mixer), but I can't hear any sound from any of my other applications (including by selecting the OSS Mixer in xmms.) After I turn the volume up in the volume control applet if I go back to my terminal and try to run alsamixer again I get the same stupid error message, and if I restart /etc/init.d/alsasound I get this: camille ~ # /etc/init.d/alsasound restart * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... /usr/sbin/alsactl: get_control:149: Cannot read control info '2,0,0,Front Playback Volume,0': Invalid argument [ !! ] * Unloading ALSA ... [ ok ] * Unloading ALSA modules ... [ ok ] * Loading ALSA modules ... * Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-seq-oss ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-pcm-oss ... [ ok ] * Restoring Mixer Levels ... * No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card! [ ok ] I have an /etc/asound.state backed up. When I restore it and restart /etc/init.d/alsasound I get this: camille ~ # /etc/init.d/alsasound restart * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... /usr/sbin/alsactl: get_control:149: Cannot read control info '2,0,0,Front Playback Volume,0': Invalid argument [ !! ] * Unloading ALSA ... [ ok ] * Unloading ALSA modules ... [ ok ] * Loading ALSA modules ... * Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-seq-oss ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-pcm-oss ... [ ok ] * Restoring Mixer Levels ... /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:873: failed to obtain info for control #1 (Invalid argument) * Errors while restoring defaults, ignoring [ ok ] Any thoughts on how to get my sound back, or why it just quit in the first place? I use genkernel. To get my sound card to work the first time I had to reboot with the LiveCD (Gentoo 2005), mount my partitions, chroot to the new environmeny, etc, unmerge gentoo-sources and alsa-driver, completely delete the directories under /usr/src and /lib/modules, remerge gentoo-sources, zcat /proc/config.gz /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-2.6 and run genkernel --all and then reboot into my regular environment and emerge alsa-driver then restart /etc/init.d/alsasound. Yesterday I did everything I did originally to get the sound to work and it doesn't. I'm not sure the kernel config was really clean. What would I have to do to get the original kernel config for when one first installs Gentoo? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes
On Thursday 17 Nov 2005 7:36 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: I've just rebuild kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 Can we have output of lspci | grep Audio lsmod | grep snd emerge -pv alsa-driver dmesg Abhay pgpVG6964dwcR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes
On Friday 18 Nov 2005 12:08 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:1b.0 to 64 hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC880, trying auto-probe from BIOS... hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0x8 hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0x8 hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0x8 hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0x8 ...and that is what I was looking for. It is a known bug (1453) in ALSA hda-intel drivers. Your driver version is fine as it did not work in 1.0.9 AT ALL but you need to pass some extra options with =1.0.10_rc2 in /etc/modules.d/alsa. This is what I am using #-- alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss # Set this to the correct number of cards. # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF version 1.0.10rc2 --- alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- options snd-hda-intel model=3stack position_fix=2 #--- I have the same sound device so it should work for you as well. Abhay pgpogchcfWOaj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 00:53 +0530, abhay wrote: #-- alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss # Set this to the correct number of cards. # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF version 1.0.10rc2 --- alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- options snd-hda-intel model=3stack position_fix=2 #--- Yes that worked. Thank you! That'll be one less worry on my mind... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
