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swedishfish

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Registered: 2010-10-02

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Reinstall/recreate Alsa configuration

Help!  After playing around with Alsa, OSS, and pulse, I seem to have accidentally wiped my alsa.conf files.  (no ~/.asoundrc, alsa.conf , etc.)

How can I reinstall/recreate all the alsa configuration files similar to

Alsaconf used to find my card (snd-hda-intel) but now fails.  Alsamixer is also missing. 

[swedishfish@myhost ~]$ alsamixer
ALSA lib control.c:902:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

I have tried to follow both the beginner's guide and the ALSA wiki pages, but I'm running into problems as alsaconf and alsamixer are not working.  Any help woudl be greatly appreciated!

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: Reinstall/recreate Alsa configuration

You don't "need" ~/.asoundrc

swedishfish

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Registered: 2010-10-02

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Re: Reinstall/recreate Alsa configuration

correct, ~/.asoundrc is not needed.  However, I am missing /usr/share/alsa/aslsa.conf which is causing lots of problems.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Reinstall/recreate Alsa configuration

Have you tried reinstalling alsa-related packages?

swedishfish

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Registered: 2010-10-02

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Re: Reinstall/recreate Alsa configuration

Yes, I have uninstall/reinstalled both alsa-utils and alsa-lib with no luck, it doesn't seem to re-create the configuration files.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Reinstall/recreate Alsa configuration

You have a typo there: /usr/share/alsa/aslsa.conf. alsa-lib from extra has /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf, you can download and install that package manually.

swedishfish

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Registered: 2010-10-02

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Re: Reinstall/recreate Alsa configuration

I'll give that a try. Much appreciated.

swedishfish

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Re: Reinstall/recreate Alsa configuration

Karol, that fixed it!  Thank you again!