I have installed alsa 0.9_rc1 along with alsa-tools,alsa-utils and alsa lib and it seemed to install fine. I configured it for my card (a so9und blaster live) like the doc files instructed. Alsa starts fine (ie alsasound starts) with no errors upon boot. When I type lsmod I see the following: Module Size Used by Tainted: P snd-seq-midi 3296 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-emu10k1-synth 3840 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-emux-synth 23936 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1-synth] snd-seq-midi-emul 4560 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth] snd-seq-virmidi 2680 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth] snd-seq-oss 23168 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3112 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 37484 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-mixer-oss 9184 0 (unused) snd-pcm-oss 36068 0 (unused) snd-emu10k1 56228 0 [snd-emu10k1-synth] snd-ac97-codec 22852 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-rawmidi 12864 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-emu10k1] snd-pcm 47936 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1] snd-timer 10464 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-hwdep 3712 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-util-mem 1248 0 [snd-emux-synth snd-emu10k1] snd-seq-device 3936 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1-synth snd-emux-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd 25448 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi snd-pcm snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-seq-device] NVdriver 946048 18 indictating that the sound modules loaded correctly. However when I try to run amixer to unmute my speakers it seg faults as both root and as a normal user. My permissions for /dev/snd are as follows: drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 .. crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 0 Dec 31 1969 controlC0 crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 32 Dec 31 1969 controlC1 crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 64 Dec 31 1969 controlC2 crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 96 Dec 31 1969 controlC3 crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 128 Dec 31 1969 controlC4 crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 160 Dec 31 1969 controlC5 crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 192 Dec 31 1969 controlC6 crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 224 Dec 31 1969 controlC7 crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 4 Dec 31 1969 hwC0D0 crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 8 Dec 31 1969 midiC0D0 crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 9 Dec 31 1969 midiC0D1 crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 10 Dec 31 1969 midiC0D2 crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 24 Dec 31 1969 pcmC0D0c crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 16 Dec 31 1969 pcmC0D0p crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 25 Dec 31 1969 pcmC0D1c crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 26 Dec 31 1969 pcmC0D2c crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 19 Dec 31 1969 pcmC0D3p crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 1 Dec 31 1969 seq crw------- 1 crypto audio 116, 33 Dec 31 1969 timer and my permissions for /dev/sound are as follows: drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 .. crw------- 1 crypto audio 14, 14 Dec 31 1969 admmidi crw------- 1 crypto audio 14, 12 Dec 31 1969 adsp crw------- 1 crypto audio 14, 13 Dec 31 1969 amidi crw------- 1 crypto audio 14, 4 Dec 31 1969 audio crw------- 1 crypto audio 14, 9 Dec 31 1969 dmmidi crw------- 1 crypto audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp crw------- 1 crypto audio 14, 2 Dec 31 1969 midi00 crw------- 1 crypto audio 14, 0 Dec 31 1969 mixer crw------- 1 crypto audio 14, 1 Dec 31 1969 sequencer crw------- 1 crypto audio 14, 8 Dec 31 1969 sequencer2 I also have done an strace while executing amixer and this is the output: execve("/usr/bin/amixer", ["amixer"], [/* 34 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x8051ba0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0 x126000 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 close(3) = 0 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=27607, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 27607, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x127000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0P7\0\000"..., 1024) = 10 24 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=149624, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 136276, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x12e000 mprotect(0x14f000, 1108, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x14f000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x20000 ) = 0x14f000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libasound.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0py\1\000"..., 1024) = 10 24 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=542888, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 540792, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x150000 mprotect(0x1d1000, 12408, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x1d1000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x8000 0) = 0x1d1000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\374\33"..., 1024) = 102 4 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=10120, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 12220, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x1d5000 mprotect(0x1d7000, 4028, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x1d7000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x1000) = 0x1d7000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0D\0\000"..., 1024) = 1 024 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=85132, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 85936, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x1d8000 mprotect(0x1e6000, 28592, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x1e6000, 28672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xd000 ) = 0x1e6000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\250\224"..., 1024) = 10 24 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1285220, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 1242944, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x1ed000 mprotect(0x312000, 42816, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x312000, 28672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x1240 00) = 0x312000 old_mmap(0x319000, 14144, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYM OUS, -1, 0) = 0x319000 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x127000, 27607) = 0 getrlimit(0x3, 0xbffff820) = 0 setrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=2044*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0 getpid() = 15832 uname({sys="Linux", node="coruscant.tccgi.com", ...}) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGRTMIN, {0x1e1008, [], 0x4000000}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGRT_1, {0x1e0398, [], 0x4000000}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGRT_2, {0x1e1098, [], 0x4000000}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0 _sysctl({{CTL_KERN, KERN_VERSION}, 2, 0xbffff5f4, 64, (nil), 0}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x8051ba0 brk(0x8051bd0) = 0x8051bd0 brk(0x8052000) = 0x8052000 stat64("/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=7034, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=7034, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0 x127000 read(3, "#\n# ALSA library configuration "..., 4096) = 4096 brk(0x8053000) = 0x8053000 brk(0x8054000) = 0x8054000 brk(0x8055000) = 0x8055000 brk(0x8056000) = 0x8056000 read(3, "efaults.ctl.card\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\tty"..., 4096) = 2938 brk(0x8057000) = 0x8057000 brk(0x8058000) = 0x8058000 brk(0x8059000) = 0x8059000 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x127000, 4096) = 0 access("/etc/asound.conf", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/home/crypto/.asoundrc", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) brk(0x8058000) = 0x8058000 brk(0x8059000) = 0x8059000 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x127000, 4096) = 0 access("/etc/asound.conf", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/home/crypto/.asoundrc", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = 3 close(3) = 0 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = 3 ioctl(3, USBDEVFS_CONTROL, 0xbffff5c8) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 ioctl(3, USBDEVFS_RELEASEINTERFACE, 0xbffff7c4) = 0 brk(0x805c000) = 0x805c000 ioctl(3, USBDEVFS_RELEASEINTERFACE, 0xbffff7c4) = 0 brk(0x805d000) = 0x805d000 brk(0x805e000) = 0x805e000 brk(0x805f000) = 0x805f000 brk(0x8060000) = 0x8060000 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ I hope I have provided all the information that is needed. If anything else is needed, please email me and I will get it as quickly as possible. I scoured the mailing lists and message boards but couldn't find anything relating to this. Thanks.
What happens when you use any other alsa utility, like "alsamixer"?
I can't reproduce it on two different machines with different alsa modules. One of them has a SB Live (emu10k1, just like you). Can you post the output of the following command: qpkg -I '*alsa*'
root@coruscant home # qpkg -I '*alsa*' media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.0_rc1 * media-libs/alsa-oss-0.9.0_rc1 * media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc1-r6 * media-sound/alsa-tools-0.9.0_rc1 * media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.0_rc1 * media-sound/alsa-xmms-0.9 * media-sound/alsaplayer-0.99.60-r1 *
Chuck, can you use other alsa utilities, like 'alsamixer'?
I am able to use alsaplayer, but cannot hear anything. I will try alsamixer tonite.
what's news on this, chuck?
Honestly, the machine I had this problem on no longer works. So I'm gonaa close the bug. Sorry 'bout that.
