Patrick <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 08:19 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > [snip] >> > Since there are now more reports than one let me add my 2 cents. I use >> > slmodemd on top of the snd-atiixp-modem module to activate the softmodem >> > on my laptop. On kernel 2.6.12-1.1447 it works fine using modem:1,0 as >> > the device. On kernel 2.6.13-1.1526 it fails. I'm reporting it because >> > the snd-atiixp-modem module is part of the Alsa sound libs. >> > >> did you recompile slmodemd on the new kernel? > > Yup and I also figured out that it was not caused by the kernel upgrade > (doh!). It is caused by the /etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf file. Here is > the error message: > ALSA lib conf.c:1578:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:51:23:No such file or > directory > ALSA lib conf.c:2823:(snd_config_hook_load) /etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf > may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it > ALSA lib conf.c:2686:(snd_config_hooks_call) function > snd_config_hook_load returned error: No such file or directory > ALSA lib pcm.c:1959:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM modem:1,0 > definition (id: modem, value: cards.pcm.modem) > error: alsa setup: cannot open playback device 'modem:1,0': Invalid > argument > error: cannot setup device `modem:1,0' > > Now if I can figure out what's wrong with the file I can fix it. No luck > so far so the search continues. I ran into a similar problem last week. My laptop hung and when it came back up, I had no sound, and got the same sort of messages from esd. I don't know for sure if it was the crash or some update I did before the hang. I ran strace on esd, and found that a file was missing (just not aliases.conf). I kind of fixed it my running ainit (as root), but the permissions on the devices were messed up, so I had to run esd as root. I also had permissions problems accessing /dev/scd0. It's possible that some package update made some devices inaccessible to normal users, and this is just part of the fallout.
