Grrrrr ALSA [SOLVED]

jerrykenny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 105

Its just that I cant get this fixed that driving me nuts :twisted:

Its not even a big problem, but every time I log into kde, I have to unmute my master and PCM . . . . . and then everything works a treat.

I've even got a desktop shortcut now with a script that does it for me.

My alsa is compiled in kernel (not modules), I've re-emerged alsa-utils, checked /etc/conf.d/alsasound (its set to restore OK), and theres no error messages anywhere.

But why O why do I either have to run "alsamixer" or "amixer set PCM 85% unmute && amixer set Master 85% unmute" Every time I log in

GGGGrrrrr
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antares2001 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 339 Location: Germany

Hi!

Did you already try with alsa as modules in kernel? They are loaded by the alsasound script automatically. I had the same problem with alsa in the kernel, but with modules it works great. Volume restore, etc...

And do you have your card configured with alsaconf?

Regards.
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jerrykenny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 105

Thanks apprentice, I might do a recompile then. . . .

Oddly enough, alsaconf cant find my card (I wonder why) but if you follow the gentoo alsa guide, with your alsa compiled straight in you dont need to run alsaconf . . . .

. . . . .however when I do run alsaconf it precedes its ncurses interface with

modinfo: could not find module snd-opl3sa2
modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4236
modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4232
modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4231
modinfo: could not find module snd-es18xx
modinfo: could not find module snd-es1688
modinfo: could not find module snd-sb16
modinfo: could not find module snd-sb8
none of which modules would've been my card anyway (should be intel 8x_0) or whatever
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antares2001 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 339 Location: Germany

You're welcome, though my nick is antares2001 and not apprentice (is my status) ;-)

Hmmm... yes, I've also sometimes had some problems with alsaconf. If it doesn't do the job, set up your /etc/modules.d/alsa manually and run modules-update after that.

What soundcard do you use?
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jerrykenny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 105

Sorry antares, getting bleary eyed :oops:

Heres my sound card . . . .

00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)

heres my dmesg . . .

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.11rc2 (Wed Jan 04 08:57:20 2006 UTC).

cat /proc/asound/cards gives me

0 [SI7012 ]: ICH - SiS SI7012
SiS SI7012 with ALC200,200P at 0xd000, irq 18

Goodness knows why its being so fussy
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antares2001 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 339 Location: Germany

Grml... sis soundcard, onboard I assume ;-)

I've had one once and had also problems with it until I drove out my motherboard, bought a PentiumD CPU and an ASUS board with Intel chipset ;-)

Have you tried it out now with modules? What do you have selected in kernel?

This is my /etc/conf.d/alsasound:

jerrykenny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 105

AAAAAAHHHHHH wait a minute !

It seems to be a user-specific problem !

I just created another user to see what would happen and they're kde starts up with a proper sound start level. . . . .

Now heres a thing, when I first logged into the gui in this system (only a few days ago) KDE login complained and muttered something about the DCOP server, I recall a bug with kubuntu unstable where the same complaint was getting a lot of guys . . .

So I issued the command chown -R jerry /home/jerry

Which is a bit of a kludge but it lets you log in and work away fine . . . . . so is KDE trying to save to a config file in my home folder somewhere, but because of the above command, it doesnt have the permission ?

Hold that kernel config . . .
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jerrykenny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 105

Getting too tired to think now, but I'll tackle it tomorow from the point of view of file - ownership . . . . permissions
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sonicbhoc · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 2:31 am Post subject:

check which groups the user belongs to, and if you want to you could always nuke your KDE settings and start fresh by typing

jerrykenny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 105

Yes, it was a user problem, "rm -rf ~/.kde*" definitely fixed it. Cheers

Mind you it wiped out all my e-mail settings as well. ah well . . . . . I wonder what the offending file was, I'd had a good rummage in the hidden files in my home folder but couldn't see anything amiss.

Anyway its fixed now so thanks guys.
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antares2001 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 339 Location: Germany

Hi!

Well... I hope it was not just one of .kde/share/config/kmix*

Anyhow - good to hear you solved it.
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