alsa sound not loading properly

[LinuxUser01]

Okay, so i deleted that file audio that i created and edited in /.X.d since Juanito stated it was for running x. I then added that command you mentioned sleep 1 & infront of the alsasound start in bootlocal.sh. I then went ahead and sudo alsaconfig and went through the installation process and it loaded the drivers. I then went into my .filetool.1st and made sure etc/modprobe.conf was still there and saved and rebooted. This time the sound works coming back from that reboot. I think we needed that sleep command in the bootlocal.sh that you mentioned in your post since it was stated in the comment section of alsa.tcz. I'll keep you posted. Thank you again.

[Misalf]

Wohoo! (:

[Rich]

Hi LinuxUser01

sleep 1 &

I don't think you want that  &  in there since that puts the sleep command in the background to run asynchronously. You
want it in the foreground so it blocks the next command from executing until  it completes.

[LinuxUser01]

I shut down the system then re-started it to no sound. I then changed that command sleep 1 & to sleep 1 in bootlocal.sh then rebooted and still no sound available. Not sure why its not saving any of this properly because after finding out that there is no sound, i open terminal and type sudo alsaconf and the sound is available.

[Rich]

Hi LinuxUser01
Try removing the  &  from your alsa start and restore commands.

[LinuxUser01]

This is what i have so far in my bootlocal.sh:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start sleep 1
/usr/local/sbin/alsactl restore

I've looked over the comment section in alsa.tcz and i can't understand why this is still not working.

[Rich]

Hi LinuxUser01
The  sleep 1  should be on a separate line.

[Misalf]

Sorry it wasn't clear to me that & puts a command into background. I've seen it many times as an example to delay the start of conky.
Maybe you could just do

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#!/bin/sh
/bin/sleep 1
/usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start
/usr/local/sbin/alsactl restoreor
/bin/sleep 1 && /usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start
or
/bin/sleep 1 ; /usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start

Rich, please confirm.

[LinuxUser01]

I got the bootlocal.sh revised again to:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start
/bin/sleep 1
/usr/local/sbin/alsactl restore

and so far the sound has worked both reboots. Not sure about the third one.

[LinuxUser01]

Damn!

[Misalf]

Put it above alsasound start.
If this still wont work, increase the number.

Be aware that sleep 2 would make the bootlocal.sh to stay inactive for 2 (two) seconds so you probably might not want to use very high value.

[Rich]

Hi Misalf

Rich, please confirm.

Yes, those look fine.

[Rich]

Hi LinuxUser01
You might want to try adding the  syslog  boot code. When alsa fails, look through  /var/log/messages  for messages
related to the sound system.

[LinuxUser01]

Okay, i'll look for any messages related to alsa when it fails in /var/log/messages and keep you updated. So for the bootlocal.sh either one would work?

#!/bin/sh
/bin/sleep 1 && /usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start
/usr/local/sbin/alsactl restore

or

#!/bin/sh
/bin/sleep 1 ; /usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start
/usr/local/sbin/alsactl restore

or

#!/bin/sh
/bin/sleep 1
/usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start
/usr/local/sbin/alsactl restore

And i'm not sure what you mean by adding the syslog boot code.

[Rich]

Hi LinuxUser01
All three would work. My preference is one command per line.

And i'm not sure what you mean by adding the syslog boot code.

You've seen boot codes before, like waitusb=5 home=sda1 nodhcp norestore etc. In this case add  syslog  to your
bootloader.