Alsamixer starts turned off.

[thane]

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Ran into this same problem of alsa not starting up. In bootlocal.sh I rmmod and modprobe the sound chip to get the sample speed right and then run the alsasound start script. This generally works fine but when I ran TCL 2.5 with a very small set of extensions the sound didn't start. Adding sleep 4 to bootlocal.sh prior to the sound commands seems to resolve this. Some strange timing issue maybe? It started happening after I upgraded the extensions to the new squashfs [sp?] format where TCL boots faster than it used to.

[Jason W]

I have seen the same behavior, were adding "/usr/locla/etc/init.d/alsasound start" did not work, but running the command just after booting to the desktop does work.  As you have stated, adding a sleep command in bootlocal.sh may be needed in some cases as it evidently is a timing issue.  I will add that to the info file as it is a common situation.

[thane]

Dam, booted this morning and alsa didn't start even with sleep 4 in bootlocal.sh.

edit: rebooted and alsa started [].

Further fiddling after I get home from work.

edit: sleep 6 seems to work, but I'll see.

edit: as of 11/21 sleep 6 works OK.