On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Angel Tsankov wrote: > Jaroslav Kysela wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Angel Tsankov wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I run 'alsactl restore' on a machine with 2 sound cards -- a built-in >>> Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev >>> 02) and a non-built-in Yamaha Corporation YMF-724F [DS-1 Audio >>> Controller] (rev 03) -- and get the following message: >>> >>> Unknown hardware: "YMF724F" "SigmaTel STAC9700,83,84" "AC97a:83847600" >>> "0x1073" "0x000d" >>> Hardware is initialized using a guess method >>> >>> As a consequence the volume levels of the Yamaha card do not get >>> restored to the levels stored in /etc/asound.state. The volume levels >>> of the built-in card however are properly restored. The asound.state >>> file has been created by executing 'alsactl store'. >>> >>> The kernel has been built with support for ALSA. I've built and >>> installed the kernel modules for both cards (not the ones in the >>> alsa-driver package but those that come with kernel version 2.6.30.2). >>> Any ideas why alsactl cannot find the hardware it has previously >>> identified as "YMF724F", "SigmaTel STAC9700,83,84", and so on? >> >> The logic of alsactl is to restore the state from /etc/asound.state if it >> is valid. It seems like the set_controls() function in alsactl/state.c >> returns an error code for a reason. >> >> Could you try to compile the latest alsa-utils snapshot >> (http://www.alsa-project.org/snapshot/) and run './alsactl -d restore' in >> alsa-utils/alsactl directory? A warning (fail reason) should be printed. > > I've attached a bash shell script that I used to download, configure, > compile, and run alsactl. I've also attached a .log file with stdout and > stderr that I got while executing the script. Thanks. I've added more debug print lines to state.c. Could you rerun your script and append also '/etc/asound.state' file and output from 'alsa-info.sh --no-upload' to your output tarballs? Send me this tarball privately or just an URL to this list. Thanks, Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel