Restoring ALSA Levels fails but nothing seems to be broken

molqr · 2011-08-20 09:52:22

During bootup I notice the following messages on tty1

::Restoring ALSA Levels [BUSY]
Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Intel Eaglelake HDMI" "HDA:10ec0888,10250151,00100202 HDA:80862803,80860101,0010
Hardware is initialized using a generic method
[FAIL]

but nothing seems to be broken . please help me understand the message and suggest a remedy if needed. thanks in advance.

some details for the box are as follows

$ uname -a
Linux imoga 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 17 20:24:07 UTC 2011 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

$ dmesg | grep -i fail
[ 0.459560] pci0000:00: ACPI _OSC request failed (AE_SUPPORT), returned control mask: 0x0d
[ 5.917592] [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may suffer.

$ dmesg | grep -i warn
[ 5.326728] mei: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 03)
00:03.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PT IDER Controller (rev 03)
00:03.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Serial KT Controller (rev 03)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JDO (ICH10DO) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) 4-port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) 2-port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)

karol · 2011-08-20 09:58:11

It's similar to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=977612 but your system finds a soundcard.

Please use [ code ] tags, not [ quote ] tags for posting snippets of code.

fsckd · 2011-08-20 13:52:28

but he's quoting the computer

(sorry, karol's post was just screaming for that response, no offense intended)

karol · 2011-08-20 13:59:51

fsckd wrote:

but he's quoting the computer

LOOOL!
/ damn, my jaw hurts /

Back on topic, this case reminds me of https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=977742 where some not-fully-explained FAIL message appeared but nothing seemed to be broken.

molqr · 2011-08-21 09:48:27

karol wrote:

It's similar to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=977612 but your system finds a soundcard.
Please use [ code ] tags, not [ quote ] tags for posting snippets of code.

inspired by that link i tried

$ sudo /etc/rc.d/alsa restart
:: Saving ALSA Levels [DONE]
:: Restoring ALSA Levels [DONE]

there was no "Found Hardware ..." message... should i assume that this is not related to ASLA? how can i establish which program is reporting that message?

karol · 2011-08-21 09:52:58

Check your /var/log/boot - maybe it will shed some light on this issue

cat /var/log/boot | sed -r -e 's/\^\[\[[0-9]?;?[0-9]?[0-9]?;?[0-9]?[0-9]?[ms]//g' -e 's/\^\[(\[1[0-9]1|%)G//g' -e 's/\^\[\[0;1//g'

molqr · 2011-08-21 10:27:28

strangely enough the message is gone ... though i must add that i updated (sudo pacman -Syu) my system before the reboot. i checked the /var/log/boot entries and compared the boot messages with and without the FAIL report ... but apart from the FAIL report itself there was no other difference.

so although i don't see the FAIL message anymore i still do not know what had gone wrong and what fixed it.

scenox · 2011-08-21 16:47:10

I have the same problem. /var/log/boot gives me this:

Sun Aug 21 16:26:11 2011: :: Restoring ALSA Levels ^[[166G   [BUSY] Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Realtek ALC889A" "HDA:10ec0885,1458a002,00100101" "0x1458" "0xa002"
Sun Aug 21 16:26:11 2011: Hardware is initialized using a generic method
Sun Aug 21 16:26:11 2011: /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:1267: failed to obtain info for control #10 (No such file or directory)
Sun Aug 21 16:26:11 2011: /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:1267: failed to obtain info for control #11 (No such file or directory)
Sun Aug 21 16:26:11 2011: /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:1267: failed to obtain info for control #12 (No such file or directory)
Sun Aug 21 16:26:11 2011: /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:1267: failed to obtain info for control #13 (No such file or directory)
Sun Aug 21 16:26:11 2011: /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:1267: failed to obtain info for control #18 (No such file or directory)
Sun Aug 21 16:26:11 2011: ^[[166G   [FAIL]

citizen-stig · 2011-09-11 19:30:48

i have similar problem either.

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Restoring ALSA Levels fails but nothing seems to be broken

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