Last Wednesday 16 February 2005 23:57, vector was like: > Hi all , sad newbie here :( This too shall pass :-) > to recap i out a fresh demudi install on our studio machine and got to > the point where i was confident I could record line in audio etc using > ardour, and play hydrogen etc etc. > So the date was set for the band to come in and record. > I booted the machine and alsa seems broken. errors below,, and i have no > idea where to start. > > Its possible (it was a week ago memory faded with depression) that i > broke it when i tried to install a second sound card (thinking id get 4 > inputs, ok I have learnt that doesnt work) but what ever i have done its > broken. Sounds like a reasonable supposition. > I removed the 2nd card, > tried alsaconf > tried alsactl restore (got some no file found or something) > still no go :( Could you post the contents of /etc/alsa/modultils/1.0 please? > now there is a point i had to apt get install gaim with some other > settings on sources list I wonder if that screwed something up. Im sure > i had it working after that tho. Did you notice anything else get upgraded at the same time? This shouldn't have caused any problems. > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:08.0 > ALSA ../alsa-kernel/pci/ens1370.c:527: wait source ready timeout 0xec10 > [0xffffffff] > lots of the above line, and i mean lots Try moving the soundcard to a different slot - which device is it sharing with here? > ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:1868: > AC'97 0 access is not valid [0x0], removing mixer This is interesting, I've no idea what it means. Do you have the right version of alsa-modules installed? > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/kernel/drivers/media/radio/miropcm20.o > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/alsa/snd-pdaudiocf.o > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/alsa/snd-vx-cs.o > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/alsa/snd-vxp440.o > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/alsa/snd-vxpocket.o This is normal, you haven't installed the pcmcia modules, presumably because this isn't a laptop. You can ignore these warnings. > Loading driver... > Restoring ALSA mixer settings ... failed: > You may want to run 'alsactl restore' manually to view any errors. > Setting default volumes... All this means is that you don't have ALSA configured correctly, you knew that already. It should be fairly easy to sort out. cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
