Yep, happened to me in gentoo, downgraded, I hope they fix soon. On Sat, 02 Oct 2021 14:24:05 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > Hi, All: > > Maybe this won't apply on your Linux distro, but on Arch, where I ran my > customary Saturday upgrades, I find the latest alsa-utils package breaks > audio. It doesn't just break it once. It breaks it every time you > reboot. So, a word to the wise, and all that ... > > Here the details ... > > alsa-utils 1.2.5.1-1 > > is setting Master Volume to 0 and Master Volume Switch to off on all devices,. > > > No real problem you think? Just run: > > amixer -c3 controls |grep -i master > > to find the numid and fix the issue? Nah, won't work! > > mixer -c3 controls > ALSA lib conf.c:5200:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 3 > ALSA lib control.c:1471:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL sysdefault:3 > amixer: Control sysdefault:3 open error: Invalid argument > > Fortunately, if you happen to remember the relevant numid for your > default card, you can actually reset your volume. On my default sound > device, the relevant values are 33 for the switch, and 32 for the volume > slider, so I was at least able to get one device working. > > Sheesh, what a nuisance. This happens every few weeks/months, whether we > need it or not. > > I mean, how radical do we expect the world to be? Allow sound to play? > That's preposterous! Why, that would be like displaying boot messages > and a login prompt on any screen connected during the boot process! > Nobody does that, right? How friggen insecure! > > Janina > > > -- > > Janina Sajka > https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
