[ATrpms-users] sound gone

[Neil Bird]

Around about 26/03/07 23:01, Marcel Janssen typed ...
> Dropped back to version 1.0.13, rebooted and sound works again.
> So, it really seems to be due to the latests lib and/or utils.

   A bit more b/g info., as I was bitten by this too last night after the 
first update in a couple of weeks (I do them manually periodically).

   It's an issue I suffered from for a while, prob. due to using the ALSA 
stuff before they were officially in RedHat/Fedora (at least that's what I 
assumed).

   I finally sussed that there seems to be some discrepancy between whether 
the alsa data files (e.g., alsa.conf) should be in /etc/alsa or /usr/share/alsa.

   I ended up making symlinks from /etc/alsa/* to /usr/share/alsa/* for a 
while and that sorted it.

   A major upgrade or two ago, I noticed that it seems to have tidied itself 
up (as my patch above would break on major upgrade).  I believe I found an 
RPM (alsa-lib?  Seems to be an ATrpms RPM) with init (rpm load) scripts that 
did this symlinking, so it must have been a somewhat widespread issue.


   I assume that the recent update included alsa RPMs that removed this 
linking.  I went into /usr/share/alsa (which only contained speaker-test) 
and symlinked the stuff in /etc/alsa to it.

   Looking at my box here at work (a less tinkered with install!) I see that 
in actual fact the /usr/share/alsa has most of the files, and /etc/alsa only 
has alsa.conf and pcm/ (with alsa.conf symlinked to /usr/share/alsa, and pcm 
duplicated).

   On my box at home, I have a dup. of /usr/share/alsa/speaker-test in 
/etc/alsa, with the RPMs supplying mostly /etc/alsa.

   My box at work claims to have both /etc/alsa/pcm/dmix.conf and 
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/dmix.conf in alsa-lib-1.0.13-32.fc6.at.


   None of this explains anything, just make sure you've got all the files 
in both places if you're having problems!

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