[PlanetCCRMA] snd-intel8x0 loaded but no sound on FC3

[Peter Howard]

As I mentioned elsewhere, this is looking almost identical to my symptoms.
 Could it be an IBM-notebook-specific prob?  Is there another list (e.g.
alsa-user) we should bounce this problem over to?

PJH

>
>>>>Mar 13 18:58:36 localhost kernel: snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `'
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>Looks like whatever you added had syntax problems......
>>
>>-- Fernando
>>
> That sounds right. It was my wrong addition to modprobe.conf
>
> Ok, I think I have the final summary of symptoms, although I now think
> it might be a bug somewhere and I won't be able to get sound until
> another release perhaps.
>
> after a reboot I begin by running alsamixer to check the levels are up.
> I then restart alsasound - it outputs the following as I previously wrote:
>
> # /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound restart
> Shutting down sound driver                                 [  OK  ]
> Starting sound driver snd-intel8x0                         [  OK  ]
> Starting sequencer                                         [  OK  ]
> Restoring sound driver settings /usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1267: No
> soundcards found...        [FAILED]
>
> I then delete /etc/asound.state, and restart again:
> # /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound restart
> Shutting down sound driver                                 [  OK  ]
> Starting sound driver snd-intel8x0                         [  OK  ]
> Starting sequencer                                         [  OK  ]
> No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card!
>
> So then I run alsamixer, set levels, and then run 'alsactl store' to
> create /etc/asound.state again.
>
> After another restart of alsasound, I get the first series of messages
> listed above - I'm back where I started.
>
> But then if I delete asound.state again, restart alsasound and then run
> alsamixer again, I get:
> # rm /etc/asound.state
> # /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound restart
> Shutting down sound driver                                 [  OK  ]
> Starting sound driver snd-intel8x0                         [  OK  ]
> Starting sequencer                                         [  OK  ]
> No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card!
> # alsamixer
> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or
> directory
>
> This is starting to feel buggy, so maybe I'll just give up for now.
>
> my /etc/asound.state file looks like this, for what its worth:
> state.I82801DBICH4 {
>         control.1 {
>                 comment.access 'read write'
>                 comment.type BOOLEAN
>                 comment.count 2
>                 iface MIXER
>                 name 'Master Playback Switch'
>                 value.0 true
>                 value.1 true
>         }
>         control.2 {
>                 comment.access 'read write'
>                 comment.type INTEGER
>                 comment.count 2
>                 comment.range '0 - 31'
>                 iface MIXER
>                 name 'Master Playback Volume'
>                 value.0 23
>                 value.1 23
>         }
>         control.3 {
>                 comment.access 'read write'
>                 comment.type BOOLEAN
>                 comment.count 2
>                 iface MIXER
>                 name 'Headphone Playback Switch'
>                 value.0 true
>                 value.1 true
>         }
>         control.4 {
>                 comment.access 'read write'
>                 comment.type INTEGER
>                 comment.count 2
>                 comment.range '0 - 31'
>                 iface MIXER
>                 name 'Headphone Playback Volume'
>                 value.0 26
>                 value.1 26
>         }
>
> .... (more of the same) ...
>
>         control.27 {
>                 comment.access 'read write'
>                 comment.type BOOLEAN
>                 comment.count 1
>                 iface MIXER
>                 name 'Line Jack Sense'
>                 value true
>         }
>         control.28 {
>                 comment.access 'read write'
>                 comment.type BOOLEAN
>                 comment.count 1
>                 iface MIXER
>                 name 'External Amplifier'
>                 value true
>         }
> }
>
>
> Thanks very much for everyone's help....
>
> regards,
> Pierre
>
>
>
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 17:41, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:14:31 +0100, Pierre Proske <drmoth at tpg.com.au>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>># /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound restart
>>>>Shutting down sound driver                                      [  OK
>>>> ]
>>>>Starting sound driver snd-intel8x0                          [  OK  ]
>>>>Starting sequencer
>>>>[  OK  ]
>>>>Restoring sound driver settings /usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1267: No
>>>>soundcards found...     [ FAILED ]
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>This is strange, it would seem that alsactl is trying to load a saved
>>state and failing (is there an "/etc/asound.state" file?). Looks like it
>>is not finding the soundcard itself? But it just loaded it, apparently
>>without problems!
>>
>>
>>
>>>OK, so in this case the modem driver was not started (good) but left
>>>over configuration values were left in /etc/asound.state. Erase
>>>/etc/asound.state (or move it somewhere if you are worried about what
>>>in it. No need to be) and then try running alsamixer and setting
>>>values. This will regenerate asound.state with values appropriate for
>>>the onboard sound chip.
>>>
>>>(Assuming it works!!)
>>>
>
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