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

[Angel Tsankov]

Raymond Yau wrote:
> 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.
>>
> "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

I don't get what you mean. Could you explain a little bit more?


Regards,
Angel Tsankov