I'm going to have to get back to you on this one, since the error message whips by during INIT. In a nutshell, I'm compiling 14-r4 using a previous config, with no changes made, ALSA is built in. My sound card is an Audigy2. When my system boots, INIT/ALSA complains about 'not being able to find card 0', and hence, my mixer settings and sound card modules (if they exist) are never loaded. Strange stuff. I've been idle'ing in #gentoo, and I've noticed a few other users with the same problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. build a kernel with previous config, ALSA enabled, w/proper sound card driver 2. reboot with new kernel, and watch for 'card 0' error 3. pay close attention if you're using a sound card in the 'emu10k1' family, since these seem to give the most problem. Actual Results: My mixer settings are missing after boot, and my sound modules 'cannot be loaded' because 'sound card 0' cannot be found. I've tried using alsaconf/manual edits to correct this, but it's not working thus far. Expected Results: My card is pretty much industry standard, and I'm sure this is something easy to fix. I'll post more boot/dmesg info here ASAP. Hang tight.
The same situation with a SiS on-board audio chip (AC97, intel_8x0 driver)
After seeing my cound card no longer works with the new kernel (I was using Kernel drivers), I decided to also try the alsa-driver package: # emerge alsa-driver alsa-headers alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-oss done # emerge -tv alsa-driver alsa-headers alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-oss [ebuild R ] media-libs/alsa-oss-1.0.10_rc3 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-tools-1.0.8-r1 +X 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.10_rc3 +nls 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.10_rc3 +doc -jack 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.10_rc3 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3 +doc +oss 0 kB (Some of them were not installed back then, the above is the current situation). Anyways it still does not work. Here are the messages: # /etc/init.d/alsasound restart /usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1163: No soundcards found... [ !! ] * Unloading ALSA ... ALSA lib seq_hw.c:455:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory can't open sequencer [ ok ] * Unloading ALSA modules ... [ ok ] * Loading ALSA modules ... * Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-pcm-oss ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-seq-oss ... [ ok ] * Restoring Mixer Levels ... /usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1250: Cannot find soundcard '0'... * Errors while restoring defaults, ignoring [ ok ] # dmesg | tail ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:02.7 disabled ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.7[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54838 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:02.7 disabled ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.7[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 58832 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 # ls /proc/asound card0 cards devices modules oss pcm seq SI7012 timers version # cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [SI7012 ]: ICH - SiS SI7012 SiS SI7012 with ALC655 at 0xd800, irq 17 # cat /proc/asound/devices 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture 0: [0- 0]: ctl 1: : sequencer 33: : timer BUT THERE ARE NO DEVICE NODES in /dev! # ls /dev/snd* /dev/sndstat I guess the kernel upgrade has broken my udev installation. :(
Solved, but I guess there is a problem in somewhere else. (udev?) # ls /dev TOO MANY UNNECESSARY DEVICE NODES ??? # udevstart # /etc/init.d/alsasound restart # alsamixer it works!! So somehow, the UDEV daemon did not start at boot time. # emerge -tv udev [ebuild R ] sys-fs/udev-077-r2 (-selinux) 0 kB I guess it's the problem of using unstable tree. I'll file another bug report.
Possibly, I recall seeing the same problem described elsewhere. What is the new bug num?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114836 ***
