alsamixer startupscript is not finding soundcard

gzaector · 2004-12-13 03:42:03

Hello,
I am having this little problem on my desktop machine. When I boot up, and it attempts to load the "alsamixer" script from the ALSA wiki, I get this error

:: Restoring ALSA Mixer Volumes                                          [BUSY] alsactl: load_state:1134: No soundcards found...                               [FAIL]

Once the machine boots up, then I can log in as root and run /etc/rc.d/alsamixer start.... and everything loads like it should.

I do have the appropriate modules and daemons in rc.conf and I do have hotplug disabled.

MODULES=(!usbserial !ide-scsi tulip uhci-hcd usblp lp parport 
        parport_pc nvidia snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !hotplug !pcmcia network !netfs crond gpm cups alsamixer)

I have alsa up and running fine on my laptop, so I am not sure what could be causing this.

Thanks!

-gz

scarecrow · 2004-12-13 07:55:30

Do you have something like
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
at your modprobe.conf ?
It might be needed for proper initialization of some soundcards (I have something like that generated by alsaconf, but commented it out as it was not needed).

Win · 2004-12-13 15:23:12

Hi gzaector.

I had a similar experience recently. I went throught the following steps:

(a) make sure that the ALSA sound module was properly identified and would work if installed by hand (i.e., 'modprobe <alsa-sound-module-name>' as root)
(b) make certain that all relevant ALSA packages were installed (in particular, alsa-utils which contains alsamixer and alsactl)
(c) run 'alsamixer' as root
(d) run 'alsactl store' as root

After that, ALSA initialized properly using the /etc/rc.d/alsamixer script.

Regards,

Win

gzaector · 2004-12-15 06:49:25

Thanks for the replies guys!

I added the following to modprobe.conf

options snd device_mode=0666
alias snd-card-o snd-emu10k1
alias snd-slot-0 snd-emu10k1

And still get the no soundcards found error... any other ideas about what could be wrong.

-gz

Shofs · 2004-12-15 22:50:11

Is the alsamixer daemon only applicable to 2.4 kernels?

scarecrow · 2004-12-18 11:26:12

One idea could be moving the card to another PCI slot, and anyway it would be nice for us to know which soundcard model you use (Soundblaster-what?)

schmoemi · 2005-03-14 23:43:17

I've got the same problem with my TERRATEC 512i Sound Card.

phrakture · 2005-03-14 23:54:03

is your module in the MODULES array in rc.conf?

shadowhand · 2005-03-15 00:22:42

Try adding "alsactl restore" in rc.local instead of using alsamixer.

No problems here, snd-emu10k1 in MODULES, "alsactl restore" in rc.local.

phrakture · 2005-03-15 03:22:04

yes, the main problem from this is that inorder to restore, you have to store on shutdown...

shadowhand · 2005-03-15 05:42:55

You only have to store once, unless you change your volume a lot.

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alsamixer startupscript is not finding soundcard

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