When I upgraded a bunch of stuff including alsa-lib from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 sound stopped working on my machine. Looking in /dev showed many of the devices associated with sound to be missing. Programs that use sound reported errors opening the sound device or the mixer. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=268253 $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X Xaw3d acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups dga directfb dvd encode f77 fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gif glut gpg gpm gtk2 imagemagick imlib jabber jpeg kde libwww mad mbox mmx motifmpeg mysql ncurses nptl oggvorbis opengl pam pda pdflib png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang snmp spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb videos x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib"
is alsasound in boot runlevel provide the output of lsmod cat /etc/modules.d/alsa
I reupgraded to 1.0.7. This time I didn't get this message: An old version of an installed library was detected on your system. In order to avoid breaking packages that link against is, this older version is not being removed. In order to make full use of this newer version, you will need to execute the following command: revdep-rebuild --soname libasound.so.1 After doing that, you can safely remove /usr/lib/libasound.so.1 I looked in /usr/lib and there was no libasound.so.1. I rebooted and sound worked fine. I did a revdep-rebuild which said everything was ok and rebooted again and sound still worked. So I don't know exactly what happened but everything seems to be ok now. If you're still interested in the output you asked me for, alsasound was in the boot runlevel before this whole thing started and is now so I'm assuming it's been there the whole time. I provided the output of lsmod in that thread I linked to but here it is again: $ lsmod Module Size Used by ... snd_intel8x0 34764 0 snd_ac97_codec 71568 1 snd_intel8x0 gameport 4544 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_mpu401_uart 7808 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi 24996 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_oss 34368 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7680 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 53776 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 8008 3 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 53416 0 snd_pcm 97608 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 25540 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 9864 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm snd_mixer_oss 19968 1 snd_pcm_oss snd 54564 11 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss soundcore 9824 1 snd ... $ cat /etc/modules.d/alsa # Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file. # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,v 1.1 2003/08/05 21:07:55 johnm Exp $ # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore ## ## IMPORTANT: ## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s) ## and then run `update-modules' command. ## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info. ## ## ALSA portion alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 ## alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave ## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371 ## OSS/Free portion ## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 ## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 ## # OSS/Free portion - card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss ## OSS/Free portion - card #2 ## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss ## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss ## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss # Set this to the correct number of cards. options snd cards_limit=1
marking fixed then...
