emerge --update world blew up alsa

jcmc2000

I did my weekly emerge --update world today, it updated alsa-driver, alsa-libs, alsa-utils along with many others.

did update-modules, env-update, etc-update and reloaded to test that everything boots up fine.

Now alsa is dead, I removed asound.conf becuase alsactl didn't like it, tried to create a new one and I get this message:

alsactl: get_controls:432: snd_ctl_open error: Sound protocol is not compatible

get the same message when I try to open alsamixer as well.

I fixed the unresolved symbols issue that came up first, the modules appear to be loaded and happy:

snd-pcm-oss
snd-pcm-plugin
snd-mixer-oss
snd-card-maestro3
snd-ac97-codec
snd-mixer
snd-pcm
snd-timer
snd
soundcore

any suggestions??

thanks,

jason
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mglauche · Posted: Thu May 02, 2002 11:40 pm Post subject: alsa jump from .5 to .9 ...

you did update the driver, but all other programs don't realize they need to be recompiled against alsa9 driver ....

only did try it with mplayer, it did work after i did recompile it, maybe it helps, too.

hopefully with alsa9 my mixer on my sblive finally works

jcmc2000 · Posted: Fri May 03, 2002 3:22 pm Post subject:

since alsactl is part of alsa-utils which was updated as well why is it not working?

Kintaro · Guest

rc-update del alsa default
rc-update add alsasound default

/etc/init.d/alsa stop
/etc/init.d/alsasound start (could raise errors)

I rebooted my system and sound worked, and I was able to run amixer again without errors, etc, etc ...

The only problem I now have is that kmultimedia won't compile for me anymore(!?). Anyone knows something about it?

Utoxin · Posted: Fri May 03, 2002 4:48 pm Post subject:

The whole Alsa update seems to be a big pain. I had to rebuild gnome-core to get it to talk to ALSA again.

Guest · Posted: Fri May 03, 2002 8:59 pm Post subject:

this is killing me!! I unmerged all of alsa, tried to emerge a fresh install and now it says the driver can't be found. I re-emerged all the alsa dependencies as well as alsa-driver, alsa-libs, alsa-utils. still no joy!!! I am trying one more time. I have been searching online all day and there is nothing out there except remove and start over approaches to fixing this.

Guest · Posted: Fri May 03, 2002 9:09 pm Post subject:

after much pain I got the damn thing working!! I had to remove everything, emerge it all back in and one final clue that help was discovering that the ALSA folks decided it would be funny to rename the driver from:
snd-card-maestro3

to

snd-maestro3

I would love to thank them personally!!!

filter69 · Guest

except mine said it could not locate my src and then i looked around and found it was looking for a symbolic link named /linux- not /linux
kinda weird but i just linked it to my other sym link and then it worked fine .....

hope this helps