Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.23-3 Severity: important Hi,
I think Linux 2.6.33 renamed "PC Speaker" to "Beep". alsactl doesn't seem to be liking this much. During boot between kernels with different names I see: Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'Unknown hardware: "ICH" "SigmaTel STAC9700,83,84" "AC97a:83847600" "0x1043" "0x1493" Hardware is initialized using a guess method alsactl: set_control:1255: failed to obtain info for control #5 (No such file or directory) alsactl: set_control:1255: failed to obtain info for control #6 (No such file or directory)'...done. I think that SigmaTel thing is a modem and not related at all. On a 2.6.32 kernel I get: control.5 { comment.access 'read write' comment.type BOOLEAN comment.count 1 iface MIXER name 'PC Speaker Playback Switch' value true } control.6 { comment.access 'read write' comment.type INTEGER comment.count 1 comment.range '0 - 15' comment.dbmin -4500 comment.dbmax 0 iface MIXER name 'PC Speaker Playback Volume' value 8 } Booting into a newer kernel, I get: control.5 { comment.access 'read write' comment.type BOOLEAN comment.count 1 iface MIXER name 'Beep Playback Switch' value false } control.6 { comment.access 'read write' comment.type INTEGER comment.count 1 comment.range '0 - 15' comment.dbmin -4500 comment.dbmax 0 iface MIXER name 'Beep Playback Volume' value 0 } So it's renamed, volume turned to 0 and muted. So I've changed it manually so that is says: control.5 { comment.access 'read write' comment.type BOOLEAN comment.count 1 iface MIXER name 'Beep Playback Switch' value true } control.6 { comment.access 'read write' comment.type INTEGER comment.count 1 comment.range '0 - 15' comment.dbmin -4500 comment.dbmax 0 iface MIXER name 'Beep Playback Volume' value 15 } (On, volume at 15) Rebooting into a .32 kernel gets me the volume of 8 again. So it seems that for .32 it sets up reasonable defaults, while for newer it just turns it off. But I'm expecting my settings to be saved, even after a rename. The manpage says: -F, --force Used with restore command. Try to restore the matching control elements as much as possible. This option is set as default now. This doesn't seem to be doing what I expect it to do. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org