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tensecor

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Registered: 2008-11-01

Posts: 10

Help,alsa daemon start up failed

Hey,I just upgrade my system.
But,when I reboot it ,I found that the alsa daemon can't start up.
Here is the error message.

tensecor:/etc>sudo /etc/rc.d/alsa start
:: Restoring ALSA Levels                                                 [BUSY] 
/usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1608: No soundcards found...
                                                                                            [FAIL]

Any suggestion?

Last edited by tensecor (2009-03-30 04:56:35)

yvonney

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 671

Re: Help,alsa daemon start up failed

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=67280

not sure if you have done a kernel update.
And it was working, so that would suggest the obvious.  something got chamged. sorry i can't say.

David Bluecame

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Registered: 2010-02-07

Posts: 5

Re: Help,alsa daemon start up failed

Dear everybody.

It has also happened to me. It's very annoying. In fact, the last upgrades have been a nightmare for me and I have had to revert several packages to previous versions because of the problems I have experienced.

Regarding the Alsa problem, I have found out that somehow the device nodes location have changed. For example:

Previously (when everything worked): /dev/snd/controlC0
Now (it does not work): /dev/controlC0

I have used a workaround based on the information I've found in the following page:
http://www.ubuntu-es.org/?q=node/120296&page=2

What I've done is edit the /etc/rc.sysinit and add the following lines:

Original:

[...]
status "Activating Swap" /sbin/swapon -a
[...]

After adding new lines:

[...]
ln -s /dev/controlC0 /dev/snd/controlC0
ln -s /dev/pcmC0D0c /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
ln -s /dev/pcmC0D0p /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
ln -s /dev/seq /dev/snd/seq
ln -s /dev/timer /dev/snd/timer

status "Activating Swap" /sbin/swapon -a
[...]

Yes, I know this is a dirty and cheap trick, and it would be needed a better and permanent solution, but it seems to be working now for me

I hope this can help you somehow. Best regards!

David Bluecame.

Cr0k

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Registered: 2009-10-16

Posts: 174

Re: Help,alsa daemon start up failed

And what about

# alsaconf    ?

On my laptop, when I've this type of problem, alsaconf works very well...