Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?

My sound was busted yesterday when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.29 to 2.6.30. I had to regenerate my asound.state.

Was you only problem the asound.state (i.e. the saved mixer settings)? With different version of an ALSA driver, the way it sees the mixer might change, so that old saved settings will not apply for the newer driver. It's only a matter of opening alsamixer, setting everything up as you want, and running "alsactl store" at the end. Depending on the driver it might happen from time to time.

At first, I thought it was just my problem, because I use the softvol plugin. This gave me trouble in the past. A friend of mine reported the same experience, so someone else had audio problems on upgrade as well.

-- damjan