Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Mon Mar 07 2005 - 22:20:31 EST


At Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:13:23 +0100,
Pierre Ossman wrote:
>
> Lee Revell wrote:
>
> >So is there a bug or not? Mark seems to be the only one affected.
> >
> >It's important to follow up, because these so-called "ALSA regressions"
> >are generating bad press.
> >
> >Lee
> >
> >
> >
> I can generate the error using the following procedure:
>
> 1. Boot in 2.6.10. Remove /etc/asound.conf and store the current mixer
> settings.
> 2. Boot in 2.6.11 and let alsactl restore the mixer.
>
> Provided the machine is powered down between each attempt this gives the
> same result. 'Headphone Jack Sense' ends up not muted (which means that
> the built-in speakers are dead).
>
> I fail to find where FC saves/restores the mixer settings so I can't
> test without it. There are commands in modprobe.conf but asound.conf
> still gets updated when I remove these lines. So there must be some more
> place[s] where alsactl gets called.

Usually it's called either in init script or in udev configuration.

Or, it's not set up via alsactl but by other apps (e.g. kmix). I'm
not sure whether GNOME does anything special in this regard, though.


Takashi
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