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kimchi_sg
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 Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:23 am Post subject: stay away from alsa-[headers, lib]-1.0.9_rc2 [solved] |
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I upgraded to alsa-headers-1.0.9_rc2 and alsa-lib-1.0.9_rc2 from version 1.0.8, and my sound disappeared.
After package.masking these 2, my sounds are back.
Just to give all a heads up. 
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:00 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the warning
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:15 am Post subject: |
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| Bug filed. Hopefully it is not a duplicate. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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Noticed this too late... I had already installed those and almost went crazy with the errors. Now I have again good old version 1.0.8. 
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I think that the alsa-driver version has to match as well or stuff will generally not work. Did you upgrade alsa-driver as well?
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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| darkphader wrote: | | I think that the alsa-driver version has to match as well or stuff will generally not work. Did you upgrade alsa-driver as well? |
No, because I'm using the in-kernel module. I didn't emerge alsa-driver at all. |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| Mustaavalkosta wrote: | | Noticed this too late... I had already installed those and almost went crazy with the errors. Now I have again good old version 1.0.8. |
1.0.8 isn't too good for me. When I'm playing a song in XMMS and Gaim makes a noise, XMMS instantly crashes. So fucking annoying. I'm using the emu10k1 driver (compiled into the kernel as a module). Seems like lot's of ppl with this paticular driver are having this problem. |
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| I use the alsa-driver Package (not the Kernel-Drivers) and 1.09 works great. With 1.08 xmms crashed a lot, now it runs perfectly |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 10:24 am Post subject: |
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I also upgraded yesterday to alsa-libs 1.0.9rc2 and it works fine for me, no problems so far.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 10:36 am Post subject: |
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| It seems only the in the kenrnel included drivers have this Problem. |
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OK, masking them too, so we gotta wait till alsa 1.10 comes out or what ? will be a fix for 1.0.9 right ?
ps: tks for the warning i love my sound !!
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| kimchi_sg wrote: | | darkphader wrote: | | I think that the alsa-driver version has to match as well or stuff will generally not work. Did you upgrade alsa-driver as well? |
No, because I'm using the in-kernel module. I didn't emerge alsa-driver at all. |
that's probably the reason right there. it's not a good idea to mix different versions of a driver and it's header files.
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| kimchi_sg wrote: | | No, because I'm using the in-kernel module. I didn't emerge alsa-driver at all. |
Either way it's a version mismatch as the in-kernel modules for 2.6.11 are version 1.08. If you had a patched/updated kernel (I think the recent bk kernels have the 1.09rc2 patches) where the versions matched you probably wouldn't have had that problem. Basically it shouldn't quite matter how you get there - updated kernel or separate packages, as long as the versions match.
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| I'm using nitro-sources and it is patched with 1.0.9-r2 and yet I am having the same troubles the author of the thread mentioned. It probably is a problem elsewhere.. |
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I can confirm that 1.09-r2 borks sound you can check my thread about programs closing by themselves, it turned out to be the alsa drivers fault.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:04 am Post subject: resolved... wait for the fix |
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In the end, my bug was marked a dup of this one and it seems that the problem can be traced to a bug in the kernel drivers.
For those who use alsa-drivers-1.0.9_rc2 and still get this bug, please voice back at that bug's page.
The bug has been marked as "RESOLVED FIXED", since | eradicator wrote: | | the recommended way to install alsa [in the ALSA HOWTO, using alsa-driver] works, and alsa-driver changes will eventually work their way into the kernel, so it's a bug just in the kernel [d]rivers. |
The immediate resolution to this bug is to not use the kernel drivers, and then emerge alsa-driver-1.0.9_rc2. |
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Since I use alsa-driver from portage, I didn't experience any crashing, and my sound is still there.
I noticed something though, and it's hard to tell whether it's due to the upgrade from 1.0.8 to 1.0.9 or not... but sound has become weird in Totem, for instance. It just seems to "fluctuate" both in intensity and frequency response while playing... I did recompile xine-lib, totem, ... but it didn't seem to make any difference. Rhythmbox seems unaffected, but I'm not 100% sure: I feel like it doesn't quite sound as usual...
Am I dreaming, am I having another problem unrelated to alsa or is there something real that others have noticed as well? Important note: the sound card is an Audigy LS. |
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| MerlinTheWizard wrote: | | I noticed something though, and it's hard to tell whether it's due to the upgrade from 1.0.8 to 1.0.9 or not... but sound has become weird in Totem, for instance. It just seems to "fluctuate" both in intensity and frequency response while playing... |
That is not the problem we are discussing here. If you'd gotten hit by this one, you won't get any sound at all. |
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I don't think it's a problem coming from a version mismatch. Kernel is 1.0.8 but I use libs etc 1.0.7 because 1.0.8 and 1.0.9_rc2 both fail completely. Any program using alsa segfaults with them. 1.0.7 is perfect.
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| Lepaca Kliffoth wrote: | | I don't think it's a problem coming from a version mismatch. |
It was a thought...however, after recently trying 1.0.9_rc2 several times I get no audio as well. Dropped back to 1.0.8.
I'm using an RME HDSP card that uses its own mixer (no mixer elems for amixer/alsamixer), works fine with 1.0.8 but no audio with 1.0.9_rc2. The HDSP mixer displays the audio activity the same in both versions but there is simply nothing heard with 1.0.9_rc2. Must be something late in the output stage.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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I was having the same problem after going from x86 to ~x86 which automatically upgraded my alsa driver to 1.09rc2 from 1.0.8 (I didn't have alsa in the kernel/compiled as module, only the ones from portage). After checking all kind of things like the module config, mixer levels I found this thread, I masked the 1.0.9rc2 ones and reverted to 1.0.8 and it now works like a charm. I'm using a standard Audigy 2 if you're wondering.
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