[alsa-devel] Since kernel-2.6.32 alsactl thinks my sound card is "Unknown"

[Pacho Ramos]

El jue, 02-09-2010 a las 10:29 +0200, Takashi Iwai escribió:
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> At Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:15:23 +0200,
> Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > 
> > This is an old problem I am suffering since kernel-2.6.32 and that is
> > still unresolved even with 2.6.35 and alsa-utils-1.0.23:
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg31422.html
> > 
> > If you follow the thread, it got stalled in:
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg31433.html
> > 
> > In summary, I get the following:
> > # alsactl -f /etc/asound.state restore /dev/snd/controlC0 
> > Unknown hardware: "VIA8237" "Realtek ALC658D" "AC97a:414c4781" "0x147b"
> > "0x1415"
> > Hardware is initialized using a guess method
> > # echo $?
> > 99
> 
> This is no error.  It means that alsactl has no special workaround
> for your hardware.  The return code of alsactl looks strange.
> I thought Jaroslav has already fixed it, though...
> 
> 
> Takashi
> 

Well, Jaroslav fixed it to use "99" instead of "157":
http://www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg31430.html

And, about the message, could it be reworded for preventing to make
users think their hardware is "Unknown"? Maybe it could simply show "No
workaround needed for: ..." instead of "Unknown hardware"

Thanks :-)

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