[alsa-devel] alsactl restore: unknown hardware: ymf724f

[Raymond Yau]

2010/3/26 Angel Tsankov <fn42551 at fmi.uni-sofia.bg>

> Hello again!
>
> I've recently had some time to investigate this problem further on and
> here's what I've discovered:
>
> Raymond Yau wrote:
> > 2010/2/26 Pacho Ramos <pacho at condmat1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
> >
> >> El vie, 26-02-2010 a las 13:57 +0200, Angel Tsankov escribió:
> >>> Raymond Yau wrote:
> >>>> 2010/2/25 Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I run 'alsactl restore' on a machine with 2 sound cards -- a
> >> built-in
> >>>>>>>> Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller
> >> (rev
> >>>>>>>> 02) and a non-built-in Yamaha Corporation YMF-724F [DS-1 Audio
> >>>>>>>> Controller] (rev 03) -- and get the following message:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Unknown hardware: "YMF724F" "SigmaTel STAC9700,83,84"
> >> "AC97a:83847600"
> >>>>>>>> "0x1073" "0x000d"
> >>>>>>>> Hardware is initialized using a guess method
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> As a consequence the volume levels of the Yamaha card do not get
> >>>>>>>> restored to the levels stored in /etc/asound.state.  The volume
> >> levels
> >>>>>>>> of the built-in card however are properly restored.  The
> >> asound.state
> >>>>>>>> file has been created by executing 'alsactl store'.
> >>>>>>>>
>
> >>
> > your problem is "alsactl restore" become "alsactl init" when the number
> of
> > controls is more than those in state file.
>
> I'm not quite sure that the case is this since 'alsactl restore' does
> restore the values of the Yamaha sound card (and those of the other
> card, too) and 'alsactl restore 1' seems to just initialize the Yamaha
> card.  This is with alsa-utils version 1.0.22.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Angel Tsankov
>
>
"Hardware is initialized using a guess method "  is the message used by
alsactl init

http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=9a748178d1c9e783242f0cc794ab3efb27092f34;hp=0c02a4e3d23c7b5d03215f1bfaba9f70ed11e9b7