[gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes

[Harold Naparst]

This is to continue the thread "Return of My Continuing ALSA woes".
I was enjoying the thread right up until the point where the Michael claimed his problem was solved.
Here's my setup, which is the same as Michael's:


linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2 # lspci | grep Audio
0000:00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2 # equery list -i alsa
[ Searching for package 'alsa' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.10 (0)
[I--] [  ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.10 (0)
[I--] [  ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.10 (0)
[I--] [  ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.10 (0.9)

/etc/modules.d/alsa:
============
# Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file.
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,v 1.4 2004/11/16 01:31:22 eradicator Exp $
# ALSA portion
# OSS/Free portion

##
## IMPORTANT:
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)
## and then run `update-modules' command.
## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.
##
##  ALSA portion
## alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave
## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
##  OSS/Free portion
## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
##

# OSS/Free portion - card #1
##  OSS/Free portion - card #2
## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss

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 1.0.10 ---
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

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 ...                                                                                                    [ 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 ]largarme modules.d # amixer
amixer: Mixer default load error: Invalid argument
 modules.d # alsamixer

alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument


and some choice lines from dmesg:

ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1b.0 disabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.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=0xb
hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xb

Any ideas?