Re: a question on motherboard replacement - audio problem
>>
>>After I terminate the Gnome session or even restart the computer,
the alsaconf setup seem to be lost as the sound condition
>>reverses to the one as described prior the alsaconf with the new
motherboard.
>
>Did you run 'alsactl store' before rebooting.
Yes, and it prevented the following from happening again: "I noticed
this alsa error whenever the system or Gnome restart: No state is
present for card SI7012."
It is true that I don't see that "No state is present..." message
again, after rebooting, however, something seems to be necessary since
alsa doesn't seem to keep its configuration from alsaconf. I mean,
after rebooting, I get distorted Gnome event sounds and the other
applications that I've mentioned don't have sound.
>>
>> After I run alsaconf, all the above mentioned applications present
a
>> satisfactory sound, however, Gnome events sounds do not play
anymore.
>
> I don't run Gnome so I cant help here. Maybe you need to
reconfigure
> Gnome to use alsa for sound events once you have alsa up and
running.
somewhere in the gnome control center is a setting for audio and you
have to
change it to alsasink. I'm long gone from gnome now, but IIRC this
worked for me
a few months ago.
The only option that I found to change it to alsasink is the
"audiosink", which was set with "osssink".
And I found it under "default", under "0.8", under "gstreamer", under
"system", in "GConf".
And "GConf" was found from Gnome menu - System tools.
I noticed that, besides "audiosink", it also has "audiosrc".
I changed "audiosrc" from "osssrc" to "alsasrc" too.
I rebooted the computer and it did not seem to work as the sound events
of Gnome were played with distortion again.
[...]
>> Based on the above, and due to the sound issue, should I reinstall
>> Debian Sarge again or is there another thing that I should install
or
>> reinstall, or run again, in order to fix this sound issue?
>>
>I doubt a complete reinstall is necessary. If the above doesn't help
try
>posting more info e.g. which kernel and distribution etc.
Kernel is 2.6.8-2-k7, distribution is Debian Sarge (stable).
reinstalling the system is windows mentality. You shouldn't ever have
to
reinstall unless you've totally b0rked your disk somehow. (something
like rm -rf
/ would be a likely candidate for reinstall...). If you're getting
sound out of
the machine at all, then its just a matter of getting it configured
properly.
are you running any of the sound daemons like esd ?
To be honest, I really don't know what sound daemon it runs after
rebooting. How could I check it?
This is a bit confusing to me. I've read that Gnome uses esd, that oss
is for old sound cards and alsa is the new sund system.
Thanks again
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