Re: Beware: Latest alsa-utils breaks audio

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Thanks, John. Glad to know I'm not the lone stranger! <grin>

I can understand bugs creeping in as packages are rev'd. What I con't
understand, though, is the same kind of bug showing up every few months.

This is at least the second time this year I've seen this--or something
similar causing the same nonfunctional audio as a result.

Janina

John Covici writes:
> 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

-- 

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





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