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

[Jozsef]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 schrieb Jozsef:
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de>
> wrote:
> > > Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 schrieb Jozsef:
> > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon at cox.net>
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > 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 at 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 at archlinux.org
>


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