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peque

Member

From: Denmark - Møn

Registered: 2005-06-26

Posts: 441

Wierd problem with Alsa

Hey Guys.

I have a shutlle XPC which I'm using for ArchLinux and mythtv - Untill 4days ago - It have run without any problems - But done the upgrade and nothing seems to work. So I decided to do a clean install with the 0.8 image.

So Now I'm having problems  with getting my soiund up and running: - Earliere I just followed the lines from the guide - but that didn't help much anymore.

lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_oss            29056  0
snd_seq_midi_event      6528  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                46544  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6796  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            38688  0
snd_mixer_oss          14592  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0           28700  1
snd_ac97_codec         95780  1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus                2432  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                69124  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              19076  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    44516  11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6496  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7816  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

I have added the line in both modules and daemoin in rc.conf.

In the guide says (Which have worked untill now ???? )
If you don't have Gnome Volume Control installed,

    * Edit /etc/asound.state. This file is where alsasound store your mixer settings.
    * Find a line that says : 'IEC958 Playback Switch'. Near it you will find a line saying value:false. Change it to value:true
    * Now find this line: 'IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA' and change value to 0.
    * Restart alsa.

BUT it keeps resetitting the last value to 3 ?? Sp what Should I do or am I doing from - following the guide exactly?

THanks

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ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: Wierd problem with Alsa

Do 'alsactl restore' instead of '/etc/init.d/alsa restart'. Doing a restart saves asound.state and then re-reads it, so it overwrites your edits straight off.

(This is from memory, I could be way off.)