On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 the mental interface of Vincent McIntyre told: > Package: alsa-utils > Version: 1.0.13-1 > Severity: normal > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > Please adjust severity as you see fit, it might be important. > > This is a pure 'etch' system, with Maestro card (lspci output below). > I am trying to get some sound output (from the headphone socket, but the > speaker isn't working either). So I almost certainly have something set > not quite right, but a hardlockup isn't what I was expecting from an > innocent listing of device names. > > Steps to reproduce: > user$ /usr/sbin/alsactl names
User can not write to /etc/asound.names > same occurs if I run as root. What tells $ ls -al /etc/asound.names ? > Because the system locks up totally, it's rather hard to provide any > useful strace output. I attempted this once but the system dies before > the strace output file can even be opened. Could you please try as user $ alsactl -f $HOME/asond_user.names names and check that file? I tried same here with same soundcard and it is _not_ reproducible for me. Elimer -- Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
