On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Chris Brannon wrote:

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

What happened to ALSA? Did anyone else have the same trouble?

Regards, -- Chris

alsa works fine here

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 schrieb Jozsef:

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Chris Brannon wrote:

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

What happened to ALSA? Did anyone else have the same trouble?

Regards, -- Chris

alsa works fine here Alsa tends to break for some people with every major release, so manual fixing is needed. Alsa never worked perfectly and will not in the future, that is what i can tell ya from the past 5 years. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org

what is your suggestion instead of ALSA?

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 schrieb Jozsef:

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

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Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 schrieb Jozsef:

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

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problems on upgrade as well.

What happened to ALSA? Did anyone else have the same trouble?

Regards, -- Chris

alsa works fine here

Alsa tends to break for some people with every major release, so manual fixing is needed. Alsa never worked perfectly and will not in the future, that is what i can tell ya from the past 5 years. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org

what is your suggestion instead of ALSA? There is no sugesstion, there is no sound framework working for all. That's only my observation that sound is always broken for someone. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org

that's not just about sound. something is always broken for someone. but the reasons are different.

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:11:03 +0200 Tobias Powalowski wrote:

Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 schrieb Jozsef:

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

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Alsa tends to break for some people with every major release, so manual fixing is needed. Alsa never worked perfectly and will not in the future, that is what i can tell ya from the past 5 years. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org

what is your suggestion instead of ALSA? There is no sugesstion, there is no sound framework working for all. That's only my observation that sound is always broken for someone. greetings tpowa

You could also try OSS v4. http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorr... Note the special mention of Arch in there :) Dieter

I had it too but I ran alsaconf and problem fixed On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 07:59, Chris Brannon wrote:

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

What happened to ALSA? Did anyone else have the same trouble?

I had the same, but there's a positive side: now I don't have useless channels in alsamixer, and can tune each of my headphone output jacks (have 2 of them on my laptop) separately. No wonder that such changes in a number of channels required asound.state update. Warning about unknown card was confusing though.

-- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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