Re: ALSA stopped working at boot (sid)

[Katipo <katipo@weavers-web.org>]

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?
I've got the same situation, after upgrading alsa (in sarge).
Still checking the situation out, but the symptoms are identical, so it 
doesn't appear to be specific to Sid.
Regards,

David.