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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: alanl on September 19, 2009, 10:47:26 PM

Title: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: alanl on September 19, 2009, 10:47:26 PM

I run alsamixer and set it up.  I run alsactl store.  asound.state shows
up in /etc.  I add etc/asound.state to /opt/filetool.list.  When I boot up
alsamixer is set to off.  The asound.state file is in /etc.

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: Jason W on September 19, 2009, 11:26:48 PM

It works fine here.

But I see the same behavior when I do not run "/usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start" after rebooting.  Running that would most likely result in restored volume settings.

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: alanl on September 19, 2009, 11:45:00 PM

I have that in /opt/bootlocal.sh.

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: Jason W on September 20, 2009, 12:26:06 AM

Try removing it or commenting it out of bootlocal.sh and waiting until the desktop is up and see if running it then will help.  I one time had an issue like that on one of my machines.

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: alanl on September 20, 2009, 11:25:38 PM

I commented it out and on reboot went to /usr/locat/etc/init.d
and ran alsasound start.   
bin/sh: alsasound: not found!  Alsasound was starting before.
It worked fine with tc-143. Now with tc-2.2 - problems.

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: Juanito on September 21, 2009, 01:47:27 AM

Do you have the latest version of the alsa extension(s) - I believe they were updated several times?

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: Jason W on September 21, 2009, 03:08:04 AM

Also, if in the /usr/local/etc/init.d directory use the command "./alsasound start".  Or use the full path "/usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start".

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: alanl on September 21, 2009, 11:11:03 PM

Now I ran it with the full path and it worked.
Checked alsamixer and it was set up correctly.
So what`s happening?  Is alsasound getting setup
before asound.state is added to /etc?
I`m going to re-install the alsa tces.

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: neonix on September 23, 2009, 04:56:54 PM

Quote from: alanl on September 19, 2009, 11:45:00 PM

I have that in /opt/bootlocal.sh.

You can try add

Quote

sleep 4
alsactl restore

to your /opt/bootlocal.sh

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: jls on September 23, 2009, 06:09:34 PM

I use the tcz version of alsa and it is loaded automatically, only
alsactl restore
in bootlocal

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: sci_fi on September 25, 2009, 10:17:55 PM

Wow. Same person. Sorry to trouble you yet again. I really am working hard at this.

I have gotten alsa to support my mic. Testing with arecord and aplay works fine.

However, alsasound start will not automatically configure my mic correctly; hence I need to configure manually and then save and restore.


I am having trouble saving and restoring the configuration.

I thought from reading this thread that what I need to do is:

Save/restore asound.state  via filetool.list
Run alsactl restore or /usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start via bootlocal.sh at re-boot.

Problems:

I could not find  a file: /etc/asound.state as described. I tried saving with filetool.list anyway but no joy. Perhaps the alsa config file is someplace else. I poked around but could not find it.

Probably because of the asound.state problem, alsactl restore fails. alsasound start brings up alsa but without my configuration.

Can you advise me?

Thanks yet again.

As soon as I get this working I can try out the skype module.

sci_fi
 

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: alanl on September 25, 2009, 10:56:29 PM

a: You need to run alsamixer and set it up as you want.
    Then run alsactl store and the file...asound.state
    will appear in /etc.

b:  I tried all the suggestions and no luck.  I added alsactl restore
     to /opt/bootlocal.sh.  No workee.  Then I added sleep 4 and
     now it works!  Thanks to all for your help.

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: sci_fi on September 26, 2009, 09:15:25 AM

alan, jls,

Thank you so much for your assistance. I have  alsa (really needed that sleep 4 as you suggested) and the skype version you provided working now. Initial skype testing seems OK. Possibly some voice quality issues on my transmission. I probably need to play with the alsa mic settings some more, but at least it works. Incoming voice quality is fine.

Thanks hugely, once again.

Now, I am free to go obsess about something else.

Best regards,

sci_fi

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: jls on September 26, 2009, 09:20:38 AM

I don't have any alsasound start in my bootlocal, but alsa works

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: sci_fi on September 26, 2009, 02:01:27 PM

Yes, I have alsactl restore in bootlocal.sh. Not alsasound start. Works fine.

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: thane on November 17, 2009, 04:27:25 AM

<bump>

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.

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: Jason W on November 17, 2009, 06:12:23 AM

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.

Title: Re: Alsamixer starts turned off.
Post by: thane on November 17, 2009, 11:26:20 AM

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.