Re: ALSA stopped working at boot (sid)
I had the same error yesterday after switching to the 2.4.25 K7 kernel image
and installed the associated alsa-modules package. I fiddled and fiddled,
and eventually got the right modules to load and alsa working, but I couldn't
tell you at which point things started working. Actually, I couldn't get it
working at all yesterday, and today when I re-booted it magically started
working again, so whatever I had done to fix it was purely an accident and I
have no idea what exactly the last thing I did yesterday to fix it.
Also, an upgrade to the system I did a few weeks back completely fudged my
sound in general. Even after getting alsa to finally work again, all sounds
are skippy and distorted. Prior to the upgrade I did a few weeks ago,
everything sounded fine. I've played with the mixer levels, but nothing
seems to work.
Curiously, when I run /etc/init.d/alsa restart, I still get that same error
you're getting. I don't know what it means nor how to fix it though.
Sound seems to be still quite an issue with Linux.
Sean
On Friday 30 April 2004 07:47, Jonathan Heaney wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the last week or thereabouts, my ALSA setup has stopped working,
> specifically modules etc failing to load at boot-time.
>
> At boot I get the output-
>
> "Restoring ALSA mixer setting ... failed:
> You may want to run 'alsactl restore' manually to view any errors"
>
> When I try that I (obviously) get
>
> "alsactl: load_state:1134: No soundcards found..."
>
> BUT - when I try /etc/init.d/alsasound start, (which afaik is what
> should be run at boot), ALSA starts fine, all the modules get loaded etc
> etc.
>
> I've not seen anything on the mailing list archives on this, but when I
> checked out bugs.debian.org for 'alsa-base', I see that a new release
> was made (1.0.4-2) around about the 26th/27th of this month. I suspect
> this is probably the cause of the problem.
>
> Anyone else seen this/know of a fix to get the startup scripts to work OK?
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