no sound since last alsa updates

Jinidog · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Berlin

Hello,

since I updated my alsa-packages to the new stable ones from portage (mostly version 1.0.

yesterday, I have no sound anymore.
No errors, dev/dsp /dev/sound and /dev/mixer are there, alsamixer is working and I tried it with un/muting all channels.
It doesn't help, there is no sound anymore and I don't know what to do anymore.

Please help.
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inode77 · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:52 pm Post subject:

Just a wild guess: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-306011.html

hensan · l33t Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 868 Location: Sweden

I had the same problem. And I tried the same solution ((un-)muting everything), and I couldn't get it working. The problem in my case, an Audigy 2, was that no less than 3 settings had been messed up by the alsa update: Front volume had been set to 0 and IEC958 Optical Raw and Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack were both set (they have to be unset to get digital output).

Jinidog · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Berlin

hensan, that was it

Thanks.
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Jinidog · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Berlin

The problem is not completly solved.
I've to mute that channels after every restart for getting sound.
That's not very comfortable.

What can I do?
I already tried storing the mixer levels manually with alsactl store, but that didn't help.
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hensan · l33t Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 868 Location: Sweden

Are you using KDE? If so kmix might be messing up your settings, try deleting the kmix config file, it's somewhere in ~/.kde, I don't know the exact location since I already deleted it