* Julien Cristau [090505 00:09 +0200] > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 19:57:12 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > When the boot process tries to run init.d/alsa-utils it gets > > > several repetitions of the following error messages: > > > > > > Invalid card number. > > > Usage: amixer <options> [command] > > > > This often happens when one manipulates the audiosettings and kmix > > settings in kde(3|4). When you're using kde try to reset all > > audiosettings via kcontrol or systemsettings to the default and play > > around with the chanel levels in kmixer. Then reboot and check > > again. At the moment I can't reproduce it regulary so I didn't found > > a receipt. If you find one, please let us know ;) > > > Not sure it's the same bug, but I got these messages on my laptop due to > the alsa init script messing with a nonexistent pcsp device.
Hmmm, snd-pcsp is blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf. I don't relly kno whether Debian kernels load pcspkr module? If so, try # echo "blacklist pcspkr" > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist-local.conf # reboot and test again. -- Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

