[alsa-devel] Since kernel-2.6.32, alsactl fails to restore defaults

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Pacho Ramos wrote:

> I originally reported this issue downstream to:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299362
>
> Later to kernel:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15107
>
> And they told me that this is an alsactl issue, since it's not exiting
> with 0 when it notices that the device doesn't need special quirks:
> # alsactl -f /var/lib/alsa/asound.state restore
> Unknown hardware: "VIA8237" "Realtek ALC658D" "AC97a:414c4781" "0x147b"
> "0x1415"
> Hardware is initialized using a guess method
> # echo $?
> 157

I agree, this value is bogus. I just fixed the code to return exit code 
99 as described in init/00main:

http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=69c6bead434e7a4a546ab1300413312994b93e35

> What could I do? Thanks for helping me, if you need more information,
> simply ask me for it :-)

There are two ways to fix this issue for your distro:

1) modify the script which calls alsactl and add a check for code 99
    (it may ignore this exit code) - assuming that patch above is applied
2) change init/00main - EXIT="99" line to EXIT="0"

But from your gentoo bug, I guess that your system don't save the last 
soundcard state to /var/lib/alsa/asound.state correctly - it's looks like 
a bug in the init scripts for your distro.

Or it might be totaly different issue - could you send me your 
/var/lib/alsa/asound.state file and file test.state generated using 
'alsactl -f test.state store' command?

 						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.