Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

[dhk <dhkuhl@optonline.net>]

On 03/07/2011 11:15 AM, Mick wrote:
> On 7 March 2011 12:41, dhk <dhkuhl@optonline.net> wrote:
> 
>> Here's an update.  Yesterday morning I recompiled the kernel, but I took
>> most everything out that didn't look like one of the three audio cards
>> I've been trying to get working.  I rebooted and tested the audio with
>> the new kernel and it didn't work.  Then I rebooted again before I went
>> out for the day, the machine ran all day and all night without any
>> activity before I logged in this morning.  Now I have audio again.  Now
>> I think I have to pay attention as to whether audio begins working after
>> a period of computer uptime.  Does this sound plausible?
> 
> I wouldn't think so.  /etc/init.d/alsasound should run at default
> level, load modules and restore settings.  Assuming that you have run
> the alsaconf command to unmute your channels, then you should have
> sound straight off the peg.
> 
> However, I have an old laptop which always starts with the Master
> volume control muted.  I have to press the special sound control
> buttons on the keyboard to unmute sound every time I reboot.  I guess
> this is a hardware quirk of this MoBo and it is the only PC that I
> have come across something like this.


Here's an update.  The sound comes and goes.  I've been leaving the
sound on all the time now and not just when I need it.  I test it
frequently just to see if it works.  I haven't found any pattern other
than when I do a reboot or shutdown when the box powers up again
sometimes I have the audio and sometimes I don't.  However, even when
there's no audio it looks like the modules load and alsasound starts.