From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kjkin-0005nX-GY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:05:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4279AE047A; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:05:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B71E047A for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:05:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so261393ywm.46 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:05:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qXjlC6QBEMcD6su2+/hjec3jQrpAoCG9fvLgv2UeODs=; b=PYdeYyiVYD7ISH0v7m5v9ckCH514FoA6Su6+D70ssmP2O94OXP6zHGk6Pff0tE7YHZ 6vbeXYtb08itIx/YXhGVL62RkbgftB8P230rLSYGm5AW39gh8HRzP4vIkyCLyDsxczm4 lE0EiGLiodQujScDoPnC1f7n30aPEUjepPVRQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=TxmIzEoYKjv3vrxTKD2JB2qxirvK9k8rYBXNEJFBuxvgqBGHWGdNvRSR8WPyr6R8Kf lQ488/5YEJlJ5J9urPqy+LE+c2P+csTL62KNNSkxUCFLJ1/Ngv6OGmkjs3ct7FdGXMWv Xc6ORWGVzoTm0J7uKcnuqkOv74daEUkCKYssQ= Received: by 10.150.177.20 with SMTP id z20mr1436375ybe.104.1222563911123; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?216.78.70.71? (host-216-78-70-71.jan.bellsouth.net [216.78.70.71]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm415354ywl.4.2008.09.27.18.05.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48DED842.8010509@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:05:06 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080721 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Resolved] Absolutely no sound whatsoever after latest emerge update References: <20080926061448.GB10701@waltdnes.org> <20080926142714.GA17561@princeton.edu> <20080927073504.GB10271@waltdnes.org> <20080927193818.GA13559@princeton.edu> <48DE8DCF.2000404@gmail.com> <20080927225347.GA14251@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20080927225347.GA14251@waltdnes.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0014f8f6-12fa-4c5a-ab46-28d5ea865ba8 X-Archives-Hash: 94d66bee16b64decb5902ab5938421d5 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 09:47:27PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote > >> why do you guys make it more complicated as it is?! >> >> Just write in the shell: >> >> rc-update add alsasound default >> > > I *DO* have alsasound in my default. Since you obviously have not > read the URL I pointed to, here is a partial quote... > > >> I stopped esound (esd) and alsasound systems (this is under Gentoo). >> Upon restarting the alsasound system, the low level sound driver >> modules (snd_intel8x0m, snd_intel8x0, snd_ac97_codec, ac97_bus), >> perhaps others, got loaded and they were not loaded when the "unable >> to open slave" message was being generated. Subsequently mplayer >> was able to load and play audio tracks. >> >> So this message may be associated with hardware level drivers being >> unavailable for some reason. >> > > The problem seems to be a dependancy on some resource that is not > available early on in the boot process. Re-starting the alsasound > daemon later on works around that problem. > > This may be waaay off here, do you have that parallel start up thing turned on? You know, where multiple services can be started at the same time without waiting for the startup to complete. I read somewhere a while back where some were having various trouble but not lately. If you do, may want to try it with it turned off and see if that helps. Just something to think about just in case. Dale :-) :-)