From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists Subject: Re: No state is present for card CMI8738 Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 16:42:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from viefep23-int.chello.at (viefep13-int.chello.at [213.46.255.15]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F24024385 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 16:42:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost ([193.247.120.15]) by viefep23-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.7.08.02.00 201-2186-121-20061213) with ESMTP id <20070518144253.FYWC19392.viefep23-int.chello.at@localhost> for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 16:42:53 +0200 Received: from tpo2 (helo=localhost) by localhost with local-esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Hp3fP-0005yb-00 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 16:42:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Since I got no feedback neither here nor on the users list, may I ask why? * is it that nobody knows the answer to my question? * or is it because the question is stupid (as in: read the FAQ, the wiki, the archive and use google (all of which did not help me btw.)) ? *t On Wed, 14 May 2007, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote [modified for clarity]: [...] > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:39:36 +0200 (CEST) > From: Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists > To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Alsa-user] No state is present for card CMI8738 > > The following is my problem: > > $ alsactl -f .alsavoip restore > No state is present for card CMI8738 > > I see this "sometimes". Sometimes the above works and sometimes it returns > with that error message. > > I happen to be suspending to ram regulary. Nevertheless, the behaveour > is not consistent in between "s2ram"s and I don't know whether that has > anything to do with it either. > > It also needs to be noted that alsamixer *never* has any problems > accessing the card. But even after changing the card settings with > alsamixer, alsactl will keep on repeating that error message. > > * $ lspci > 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) > > * alsa userspace is at 1.0.13 > * kernel is Debian's 2.6.18-4-686 > > Further, minor problems: > > * After waking up from suspend the card looses its microphone settings - > that is - "Mic Capture" is allway reset to zero. > > * Further on the choice to hide the microphone setting "Mic Capture" in > alsamixer behind F5 irritates me a bit - there are *a lot* of very > obscure settings (such as "IEC958 5V" - huh?), that are displayed by > default. > > * I've seen that Alsa likes the Terratec cards, however since they're > also based on the CMI chipset, and at least /my/ onboard CMI chipset > here sucks badly I wonder what low cost card (other than CMI based > ones) are recommended? > > * Mic input is barely loud enough with my onboard sound. Mic boost > has no effect. > > What's up with that error above? What does it mean? Is there any > way I can fix or circumvent it? Anybody a hint? > *t -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Tomas Pospisek http://sourcepole.com - Linux & Open Source Solutions -----------------------------------------------------------