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I'm having some very strange problems with ALSA
I updated my system and had some issues with it, so changed to OSS. Then found more problems with OSS because my programs aren't compatible with it and I just want to go back to ALSA.
I can do an 'alsaconfig' command in the terminal and sometimes it'll find the card, sometimes it won't.
on bootup sometimes ALSA will initialise and i'll get sound the whole session, but on a reboot I won't.
I've followed the wiki pretty well and everything was working for 4 months then an update has stuffed it up
I'm on a clonezilla backup at the moment and this one is even playing up, for some reason i've got sound coming out of my virtual box, but not arch, this will usually happen if i try to play music out of Rhythm Box. That gives me the error " Couldn't start playback, The autoaudiosink element is missing."
what's happening?
$ lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_seq_dummy 2720 0
snd_intel8x0 30616 2
snd_ac97_codec 106112 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_seq_oss 31232 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7036 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 53808 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 6792 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 40320 2
snd_mixer_oss 17564 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 74464 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 21156 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 58820 9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 8900 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm$ ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2009-11-21 23:40 by-path/
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 2009-11-21 23:40 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 2009-11-21 23:50 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 2009-11-23 20:19 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 2009-11-21 23:40 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 2009-11-21 23:40 pcmC0D2p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 2009-11-21 23:40 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 2009-11-21 23:40 timer$ sudo /etc/rc.d/alsa restart
:: Saving ALSA Levels [DONE]
:: Restoring ALSA Levels [DONE]
$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1010:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
aplay: main:608: audio open error: Device or resource busyOffline