From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PzTcS-0004qJ-GB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:45:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6E9AE02F0; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.197]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF923E02F0 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (ool-43505ef2.dyn.optonline.net [67.80.94.242]) by mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0LI300AQ6NC08S10@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:43:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:42:51 -0400 From: dhk Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound In-reply-to: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <4D7F5ECB.3050606@optonline.net> 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 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 References: <4D5A58ED.4090602@optonline.net> <4D586719.9070509@optonline.net> <1297648866.31454.6.camel@troll> <4D59155A.7000301@optonline.net> <2658b578.a3f2.12e2903b5a2.Coremail.laconism@163.com> <4D5A64EB.7030806@optonline.net> <4D679A90.5030606@optonline.net> <4D74D27E.8080601@optonline.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110312 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.9 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: cc9f94f4b969be05a58424dc0a4a1f30 On 03/07/2011 11:15 AM, Mick wrote: > On 7 March 2011 12:41, dhk 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.