Hello to everyone,

Since I've upgraded to slackware 11, i've a little trouble with alsa.
My soundcard was correctly detected, and works fine, but I get the next
message when Alsa start:

root@fantasio:/root#/etc/rc.d/rc.alsa start
Loading ALSA mixer settings: /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
/usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:894: warning: name mismatch (Mic
Boost/Mic Boost (+20dB) Switch) for control #13
/usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:896: warning: index mismatch (0/0) for
control #13
/usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:898: failed to obtain info for control
#13 (Broken pipe)

It'annoying because the level of my controls isn't saved, and every time
I boot my PC, I need to open the mixer to unmute the CD. Maybe it's in
relation with that message, I didn't had the problem with the slack 9.1.

In the /etc/asound.state, there was:

control.13 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Mic Boost (+20dB)'
value false
}

So I tried to change that to

control.13 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Mic Boost'
value false
}

And i'm surprised to see that the message is always the same...

Has someone an explanation ?

Thanks in advance,
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Gauthier post:

> Since I've upgraded to slackware 11, i've a little trouble with alsa.
> My soundcard was correctly detected, and works fine, but I get the next
> message when Alsa start:
>
> root@fantasio:/root#/etc/rc.d/rc.alsa start
> Loading ALSA mixer settings: /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
> /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:894: warning: name mismatch (Mic
> Boost/Mic Boost (+20dB) Switch) for control #13
> /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:896: warning: index mismatch (0/0) for
> control #13
> /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:898: failed to obtain info for control
> #13 (Broken pipe)

(...)

> Has someone an explanation ?

I am not an expert on alsa, so I don't know the answer, but maybe a
quick fix: I had something similar, so I renamed my /etc/asound.state
file to /etc/asound.state.old and rerun alsaconf and after a reboot my
sound was back.

Roel

Gauthier <gvdmoort@nospam_skynet.be> wrote:
> It'annoying because the level of my controls isn't saved, and every time
> I boot my PC, I need to open the mixer to unmute the CD. Maybe it's in
> relation with that message, I didn't had the problem with the slack 9.1.

The saved state is a bit _Alsa version_ dependant, so after updating to
a new Alsa (or new Slackware - with new Alsa):
use alsamixer (or any other good mixer) to set the desired state again
and then - as superuser - SAVE it again with the
alsctl store

It will rewrite the /etc/asound.state file with the syntax/versio/info
THIS version of Alsa likes.
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