alsa not started anymore [solved]

[ffi]

for some reason alsa ins't started anymore and also the option to choose sound drivers from mcc has disappeared, see screenshot:

 

Edited November 24, 2007 by ffi

[scarecrow]

The shot shows the device recognized, and a driver ( snd_emu10k1 ) assigned.

alsa is loaded at bootup to restore sound volumes, and that's all... no other need for the alsa daemon running. Check in mcc/services the status of the alsa daemon.

If you want to reconfigure the audio device, go to runlevel 3 ( kdesu telinit 3 ), so that nothing will keep your soundcard busy, login at the virtual terminal as root and run "alsaconf".

Edited November 24, 2007 by scarecrow

[ffi]

after running alsaconf a few times alsa was working again and I guess the missing button is a bug

 

http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=34794

[scarecrow]

Urgh... this shouldn't have escaped to the 2008 final version. It does not mean much for old farts that are doing their job from terminal, but for a newbie this is a stopper!

[AussieJohn]

Yep. That is why many of us are not moving to 2008 full time until the sound thing is fixed.

 

To give an example. I have rebooted into 2008 on 11 occasions. The first 3 rebbots gave no sound but the next two reboots did give me sound, the next remaining 6 reboots were sound dead.

There are no error messages from alsa or anywhere else. There is just no sound. I thought the latest kernel might make a difference but no such luck.

 

Cheers. John.

Edited November 25, 2007 by AussieJohn

[zibi1981]

I also had problems with sound under 2008.0, which I didn't have when using 2007.0/2007.1 previously. I have two sound cards: one integrated AC'97 (disabled in BIOS), and a Sound Blaster on PCI. I had had the first one selected in KMix as a default mixer, and that was the case. One of the users from polish Mandriva fan site advised me to put the driver for the AC'97 sound card on a blacklist and it did help. Here's how I did it:

 

1) In /etc/modprobe.conf:

 

alias eth0 8139too

install scsi_hostadapter /sbin/modprobe sata_via; /sbin/modprobe usb_storage; /bin/true

# alias sound-slot-1 snd_via82xx

install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe uhci_hcd; /sbin/modprobe ehci_hcd; /bin/true

install ide-controller /sbin/modprobe via82cxxx; /bin/true

remove snd_emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove snd_emu10k1

install snd_emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd_emu10k1

 

2) and in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mdv:

 

# blacklisted modules for PCI coldplug

# see also /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-compat

 

blacklist rivatv

blacklist snd_via82xx

 

Now I have sound everytime I reboot to my 2008.0. Maybe it will help someone.

 

P.S. Unfortunately I can't install ATI drivers...

Edited December 1, 2007 by zibi1981