[ATrpms-users] Alsa, did something change ?

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:59:20PM +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 July 2006 22:27, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Last week I upgraded my system and found today that my ac3 passthrough
> > stopped working.
> > When I play pcm files, sound is ok. When I play ac3, the application
> > complains about an invalid device. Neither hardware nor configuration did
> > change, so I think some upgrade broke the system.
> >
> > Does it ring a bell to someone ?
> 
> Somehow it's solved now, but I have no idea how. I just rebooted several times 
> and things started to work.

You didn't upgrade/install/configure anything?

rpm -qa --last

can give you a time-sorted list of packages installed and

find /etc -mtime 0 \! -type d

can spot any configuration changes.

> This box has real strange behaviour ever since I upgraded to FC5.
> Once the box is running, it's stable but at every reboot I have a
> different outcome to what things may or may not work. This is some
> very strange issue.  Fortunately I hardly ever reboot.

Is that the same box where ivtv sometimes works and sometimes not?
Maybe there is aaa hardware issue somewhere? I'm no hardware expert,
but the next time you find alsa breaking, try powering off, removing
the ivtv hardware and power on again. Perhaps this piece of hardware
is eating your system. Just a thought, I'm far from understanding
computer hardware ;)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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