Re: XOs with no sound

2009-01-01 Thread Philipp Kocher
Happy New Year. We don't use the Measure Activity. Here are the most frequently used Activities using sound: - Scratch version 11 (with resume sound problem, ticket #6201) - Record version 59 - Browse version 98 with Adobe flash plugin version 10.0.12.36 (gnash deinstalled) for a flash based Engli

Re: XOs with no sound

2008-12-31 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:52:05PM +0700, Philipp Kocher wrote: > Alsa keeps the values in memory and writes it into the > /etc/alsa/asound.state file during shutdown. The file has a new > timestamp, so someone is writing into it at least. Okay, that must be a build 767 thing. Recent developm

Re: XOs with no sound

2008-12-31 Thread Philipp Kocher
Alsa keeps the values in memory and writes it into the /etc/alsa/asound.state file during shutdown. The file has a new timestamp, so someone is writing into it at least. Sorry my master asound.state file was working but not standard. I have now 5 values that are different between a standard XO

Re: XOs with no sound

2008-12-30 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 09:22:17AM +0700, Philipp Kocher wrote: > It seems like always the same 7 values are wrong. Which 7 values? > 1. Copy /etc/alsa/asound.state of a "healthy" XO to USB flash drive Okay, so it is in /etc/alsa on those builds? Are you sure that file is in use? On the build

Re: XOs with no sound

2008-12-30 Thread Philipp Kocher
What is the ticket number for that problem? It seems like always the same 7 values are wrong. There is a shorter solution: 1. Copy /etc/alsa/asound.state of a "healthy" XO to USB flash drive 2. Type "alsactl -f /media/{flash_dirve_name}/asound.state restore" on the XO with no sound Thanks qu..

Re: XOs with no sound

2008-12-30 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:32:38AM -0500, Greg Smith wrote: > That's great debugging and repair info. I especially like the use of the > stack trace command! That's a great trick for hunting down which process > is calling what files. Actually, it's a system call tracing command. It can be used

Re: XOs with no sound

2008-12-30 Thread Greg Smith
te: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:46:39 +1100 From: qu...@laptop.org Subject: Re: XOs with no sound To: Philipp Kocher Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: <20081230094639.ga12...@us.netrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii How to fix "no sound" caused by operating system. 1

Re: XOs with no sound

2008-12-30 Thread quozl
How to fix "no sound" caused by operating system. 1. obtain the root prompt, e.g. by starting the Terminal activity and clicking on become root button, 2. if you wish to find out in which way the settings have been corrupted, copy the file /etc/asound.state before proceeding, cp /etc/a

Re: XOs with no sound

2008-12-30 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
I have seen this problem when the alsamixer settings have become messed up. Seems like there are one or 2 processes that occasionally write to the alsamixer config file. You can alter the settings by running the graphical program /usr/bin/ alsamixer from the terminal. There is also a comm