Hi there

I'm using:

Debian
Kernel 2.6.8-1-686
ENS-1370 sound card installed
alsa-base 1.0.8-7
alsa-utils 1.0.8-4.
discover 2.0.7-2


I'm having problems with alsa. It was working perfectly well, but, probably in a system upgrade, it stopped to work.

So I tried (and did It) with the command:
# alsaconf

I've configured my alsa and it played sounds. Great! But... when I reboot the system, all the configurations are lost....!

I've searched something about and did:
# alsactl store
# alsactl restore

Ok.

But when I reboot and execute the following command (also placed on my /etc/init.rd):
# alsactl restore
alsactl: load_state:1267: No soundcards found...

So I've looked on a similar thread on this same forum, called "Sound Probs/no sound on mandrake 10.1 ??????"
linuxquestions dot org / questions / showthread.php?s=&forumid=8&threadid=303780
(I cannot post links yet...

But I didn't solve my problem. I think that something is repeated on my lsmod (my soundcard), but I don't know how to solve that (if is this, which module should I remove?)


So I send, also, both my LSPCI and LSMOD:

# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] (rev 01)
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 11)


# lsmod
Module Size Used by
lp 11176 0
ipv6 264612 14
af_packet 22600 2
pcspkr 3592 0
rtc 12760 0
floppy 61200 0
parport_pc 36900 1
parport 41832 2 lp,parport_pc
pci_hotplug 34640 0
intel_agp 22816 1
snd_ens1370 19780 0
snd_rawmidi 25156 1 snd_ens1370
snd_seq_device 8200 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm_oss 55048 0
snd_mixer_oss 20096 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 98728 2 snd_ens1370,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25668 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11752 2 snd_ens1370,snd_pcm
snd_ak4531_codec 7776 1 snd_ens1370
snd 57156 8 snd_ens1370,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ak4531_codec
agpgart 34696 1 intel_agp
dm_mod 59804 0
capability 4520 0
commoncap 7232 1 capability
autofs 16928 0
ide_cd 42656 0
cdrom 40732 1 ide_cd
smbfs 69720 0
sis900 20612 0
crc32 4320 1 sis900
nfsd 201312 0
exportfs 6368 1 nfsd
nfs 193984 0
lockd 63944 2 nfsd,nfs
evdev 9600 0
sunrpc 153124 3 nfsd,nfs,lockd
uhci_hcd 33136 0
ohci_hcd 21764 0
fat 46784 0
mousedev 10476 1
ntfs 101940 0
es1370 35980 1
soundcore 10336 3 snd,es1370
gameport 4704 2 snd_ens1370,es1370
usbkbd 7424 0
usbcore 119012 5 uhci_hcd,ohci_hcd,usbkbd
ext3 127240 4
jbd 62616 1 ext3
mbcache 9348 1 ext3
ide_generic 1408 0
piix 13440 1
ide_disk 19296 7
ide_core 139908 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,piix,ide_disk
unix 28692 462
font 8320 0
vesafb 6656 0
cfbcopyarea 3840 1 vesafb
cfbimgblt 3040 1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 3776 1 vesafb


And here goes my discover:

# discover
unknown unknown
unknown unknown
unknown unknown
Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge
Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge
Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA
Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI
Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI]
Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet
nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro]
unknown unknown


Thanks,

HI!
It seems to me that "no soundcards found" appears because at the time the command runs, there's no driver loaded for the card. Try to move the command to the end of the boot process, and make sure the drivers are loaded. Maybe SysV init editor can help you with that.

PS - I had similar but not identical problems. Please use this suggestion at your own risk.


Good luck!

Hi

I've changed the order (putted alsa on S99) - but still having problems.

The strangest thing is that if I manually config, it works. But I don't have to manually configure each time I want to listen music...

thanks

Fernão

Dear fernao,

I experienced exactly the same trouble when trying to build a linux from scratch system (LFS)
and going beyond with sound and ALSA (BLFS) installation.
I compiled the same drivers 1.0.8. as yours as modules of a 2.6.9 kernel.
But it seemed that the driver of my sound card was not correctly set up during
the boot sequence.
In fact LFS and (Beyond LFS) make use of sys-V style init scripts.
alsactl command is used inside a dedicated "alsa" script (of BLFS) to restore
volumes and store them at shutdown. When my scripts launched the command,
I got exactly the same message as yours:

/usr/sbin./alsctl:load_state:1267: No soundcards found.

To correct this, the only thing I did was to probe the module corresponding to
my sound card,

/sbin/modprobe snd-via82xx

before using alsactl.

All this was performed through the mountfs script of the LFS distribution. For this,
I mentioned the module snd-via822xx in /etc/sysconfig/modules which registers all
user-space modules to be called at boot time. And then launched alsactl store./restore at startup
or shutdown to scripts. I suggest you to download bootscripts coming along with
the LFS and (BLFS) distros (Nothing more than a few Kos) for analyzing.
Better and simpler, I wish this rule may help you: modprobe your driver before using alsactl.




Regards,
mehdi

Erratum :

The LFS script to consider is called modules and not mountfs.
It simply probes user-space modules.

Good luck Fernao

I've issued a similar problem on my asus laptop having an AC97 integrated audio card just unloading the debian original i810_audio module from /etc/modules. This one was preventing the loading of alsa modules at boot. Commenting it worked.

rph