On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 00:10:52 -0500 (EST)
Leif Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use alsa sound with SuSE 7.3 on my new laptop, which has an Intel 815 or
> compatible chipset. For a couple of reasons I am upgrading SuSE's 2.4.10
> kernel to a more recent one, but I have encountered problems.
>
> First of all, i810 sound is completely broken in the latest stable kernel,
> which is 2.4.16. Of course 2.4.15 is unusable because of the umount bug.
> I have been using the 2.4.17-preX series, since the changelog to -pre1
> mentioned a fix to the broken i810 sound.
Well,that's about the OSS/Free drivers, not the ALSA ones :)
> The basic sound driver operates as it should. The problem that I am
> seeing is that something has broken the mixer. When calling alsactl to
> load or store mixer settings, I get the following error:
>
> # alsactl store
> alsactl: MIXER open error: Invalid argument
> #
>
> When calling alsamixer I get this:
>
> # alsamixer
>
> alsamixer: failed to open mixer #0/#0: Invalid argument
> #
>
> I used strace to track the source of the problem and it seems to be
> here:
>
> # strace alsactl store
> execve("/usr/sbin/alsactl", ["alsactl", "store"], [/* 82 vars */]) = 0
> ....... etc ......
> open("/dev/snd/mixerC0D0", O_RDWR) = 4
> ioctl(4, RNDGETENTCNT, 0xbffff268) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> close(4) = 0
> ....... dies .....
>
>
> In 2.4.10, the same produces instead:
>
> open("/dev/snd/mixerC0D0", O_RDWR) = 4
> ioctl(4, RNDGETENTCNT, 0xbffff274) = 0
> ioctl(4, 0xc0105210, 0xbffff2cc) = 0
> ioctl(4, 0xc0105210, 0xbffff2cc) = 0
> ....... etc .......
> ioctl(4, 0xc0985220, 0x805a530) = 0
> ioctl(4, 0xc0985220, 0x805a668) = 0
> close(4)
>
> Any hints would be very much appreciated. I can make changes to my
> local build, but perhaps there is still some bug in the kernel that
> should be fixed.
The subject of this mail suggests you are not using a recent enough ALSA.
For the 2.4.14+ kernels you need at least 0.5.12a or 0.9beta10 IIRC. See
the ALSA site.
> Best,
> --
> Leif Jensen
-Frans
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