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? -- [email protected] mailing list
