The effect isn't limited to archlinux either, this happens wherever this version of alsa is installed. I have it on the espeakup edition of debian. On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, aerospace1028@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hello, > I'm noticing a rash of alsa-lib warnings popping up durring the boot phase of my archlinux system. > > I managed to capture the messages below. I don't completely understand what alsalib is complaining about. To me, it looks like it is having trouble > identifying/loading speaker configurations (I'm presuming "front," "center" and "side" refer to surround-sound speakers). Speakup is reading these > messages, so I am getting sound. I'm using a laptop, with whatever built-in sound the machine has--most often the headphone jack. > > Does anyone know what might be causing this problem and how I might go about correcting it? > > > :: Restoring ALSA Levels > [DONE] > :: Starting Espeakup > [DONE] > :: Starting speech dispatcher Daemon > [BUSY] > [Thu Oct 20 15:52:47 2011 : 439163] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.8-dev starting > > [DONE] > ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear > ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe > ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side > ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround71 > ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi > ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi > ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.ATIIXP.pcm.modem.0:CARD=0' > ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory > ALSA lib conf.c:4663:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory > ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline:CARD=0,DEV=0 > ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.ATIIXP.pcm.modem.0:CARD=0' > ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory > ALSA lib conf.c:4663:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory > ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline:CARD=0,DEV=0 > ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.ATIIXP.pcm.modem.0:CARD=0' > ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory > ALSA lib conf.c:4663:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory > ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM phoneline > ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.ATIIXP.pcm.modem.0:CARD=0' > ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory > ALSA lib conf.c:4663:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory > ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM phoneline > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream > :: Starting Syslog-NG > [DONE] > :: Starting IP Tables > [DONE] > :: Starting Network > [DONE] > :: Mounting Network Filesystems > [DONE] > :: Starting Cron Daemon > [DONE] > :: Starting D-BUS system messagebus > [DONE] > :: Setting cpufreq governing rules , cpu 0 > [DONE] > :: Starting laptop-mode > [DONE] Jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> If I got a nickel for every message I've already sent supporting Microsoft Windows and its applications I'd have enough to retire on comfortably no matter what the stock market did. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list