Mute button LED stays lit after restarting ALSA even though it's not muted

AngryAtLinux · 02-18-2010, 06:45 PM

i tried restarting ALSA again, tried rebooting, Mute on/off... light stays on, briefly flickers off as ALSA restarts.

Peacedog · 02-18-2010, 07:35 PM

Hi AngryAtLinux, Welcome to LQ. We'll need some more information, what kind of machine is this, what sound card are we working with, kernel & alsa versions, and Distro.
Good luck. ;-)

TB0ne · 02-18-2010, 07:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AngryAtLinux

i tried restarting ALSA again, tried rebooting, Mute on/off... light stays on, briefly flickers off as ALSA restarts.

Well, with the wealth of information you've provided, I'm sure you'll get lots of responses.

Without saying what version/distro of Linux, what hardware, etc., how can we help you?

AngryAtLinux · 02-18-2010, 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peacedog

Hi AngryAtLinux, Welcome to LQ. We'll need some more information, what kind of machine is this, what sound card are we working with, kernel & alsa versions, and Distro.
Good luck. ;-)

It's a presario v2000 laptop. Sound is IXP SB400 AC'97 with driver module snd_atiixp. Distro is OpenSuSE 11.1.

Peacedog · 02-18-2010, 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AngryAtLinux

It's a presario v2000 laptop. Sound is IXP SB400 AC'97 with driver module snd_atiixp. Distro is OpenSuSE 11.1.

Please post the output from the following:

Code:

$ uname -r
$ cat /proc/asound/version
$ cat /proc/asound/card*/codec* | grep Codec

Good luck. ;-)

AngryAtLinux · 02-18-2010, 09:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peacedog

Please post the output from the following:

Code:

$ uname -r
$ cat /proc/asound/version
$ cat /proc/asound/card*/codec* | grep Codec

Good luck. ;-)

x@linux-o5eh:~> uname -r
2.6.27.42-0.1-default

x@linux-o5eh:~> cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.17.

x@linux-o5eh:~> cat /proc/asound/card*/codec* | grep Codec
cat: /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0: Is a directory

Peacedog · 02-18-2010, 09:47 PM

Please also post the output from the following:

Code:

$ cat /proc/asound/cards

Good luck. ;-)

AngryAtLinux · 02-18-2010, 10:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peacedog

Please also post the output from the following:

Code:

$ cat /proc/asound/cards

Good luck. ;-)

x@linux-o5eh:~> cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [IXP ]: ATIIXP - ATI IXP
ATI IXP rev 2 with unknown codec at 0xc0003400, irq 17

AngryAtLinux · 02-19-2010, 07:29 PM

This issue went away mysteriously.. not so mysterious though, i believe it is because i rebooted with mute on, and some how that turned the light off. I have restarted ALSA again and sure enough the light went back on so it is definately the cause. I will be rebooting with mute on soon to see if this hypothesis checks out.

**** No it doesn't. but some how the light is again off on it's own and i think i have a brain tumor and am dying because one pupil is larger than the other so i don't want to spend my last days obsessing over a light although it would be nice if it went on/off like it used to once upon a time. I remember still the days when i used to be able to physically press the button and on the light would go and when mute was deactivated off it would go, what joyous times. Tumorless indeed.

Peacedog · 02-19-2010, 08:12 PM

Some Googling on your behalf is telling me that your chip has led trouble with the modem side enabled in the kernel. You could try disabling the modem function in the kernel if you don't use it. You could also try a kernel upgrade or just an alsa drivers upgrade. If you choose the driver upgrade I'd recommend you also upgrade the alsa libs and utils packages.
Good luck. ;-)

AngryAtLinux · 02-21-2010, 03:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peacedog

Some Googling on your behalf is telling me that your chip has led trouble with the modem side enabled in the kernel. You could try disabling the modem function in the kernel if you don't use it. You could also try a kernel upgrade or just an alsa drivers upgrade. If you choose the driver upgrade I'd recommend you also upgrade the alsa libs and utils packages.
Good luck. ;-)

How do you disable modem function in the kernel?

Peacedog · 02-21-2010, 05:56 PM

You'll need to reconfigur and recompile your kerenl to do that. There are a couple of Suse specific guides here.

http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_suse

http://en.opensuse.org/Configure,_Bu...m_Linux_Kernel

Good luck. ;-)