At Tue, 22 May 2007 23:02:29 +0200 (CEST), Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote: > > > Regarding the alsactl problem. When alsactl returns 'no state is > > present', then it's not necessarily a driver problem but could be > > rather a system problem. At least, you have to figure out what is the > > cause. For example, check /proc/asound/cards whether the driver is > > really loaded when you call alsactl. > > Well, actually I figured out one cause of the problem, namely that alsactl > wasn't able to access the configuration file. My dumb, but nevertheless, > alsactl could be way clearer about telling the user what's wrong. Glad to hear it's no real bug :) > I suggest the attached patches to improve the comprehensibility of > alsactl's (error-)behaveour. > > > Description of patches: > > * diff_display_error_on_failing_open_in_load_state: > Tells the user that it was not able to open the config file with the > precise error message. > > * diff_more_explicit_open_w_error_message: > Include more explicit error message when open config file in write > mode (this is for the "names" command) > > * diff_more_explicit_open_w_error_message2 > same as last patch, this time for the store command > > > Other little patches: > > * diff_missing_space_in_help: > adds a space in the help text between "restore" and "<card>" and indents > the rest of the text accordingly to fit > > * diff4_display_help_for_names_command: > shortly explain the "names" command in the help text Thanks for patches. I applied them to HG tree with minor fixes: - fix indentation in diff_display_error_on_failing_open_in_load_state - added "(DEPRECATED)" to help text in diff4_display_help_for_names_command (names command is deprecated and provided just for compatibility) Please check the latest tree if it's OK for you. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
