Re: ALSA problems with 2.6.18-rc3

Lee Revell
2006-08-09T20:41:35Z

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 14:17 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 12:35, Lee Revell wrote:
> >On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 17:30 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote:
> >> Lee Revell wrote:
> >> > Please try to identify the change that introduced the regression.
> >> > What was the last kernel/ALSA version that worked correctly?
> >>
> >> The change happened between 2.6.17 and 2.6.18-rc1. Specifically,
> >> 2.6.17-git4 works and 2.6.17-git5 doesn't.
> >
> >Takashi-san,
> >
> >Does this help at all? Many users are reporting that sound broke with
> >2.6.18-rc*.
> >
> >Lee
> >
> Takashi-san's suggestion earlier today of running an "alsactl -F restore"
> seems to have fixed all those diffs right up, I now have good sound with
> an emu10k1 using an audigy 2 as card-0, running kernel-2.6.18-rc4.

Distros should probably be using this as a default. Otherwise, simply
adding a new mixer control will cause restoring mixer settings to fail.

Lee