[ltp] No sound after reboot

David linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:00:41 -0600


Surely there or other thoughts. I know this can be fixed, I just don't 
know how. It is enough to make me want to downgrade.

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David wrote:

> This is exactly the way I do things after each reboot. I have some new 
> information concerning my problem. It seems that when the computer 
> restarts the alsa loads before the window manager. I have tried KDE 
> and Fluxbox. If I just reboot and don't reinstall alsa and try to use 
> Amarok or Alsaplayer all that I get is white noise. I try and close 
> the player and it closes but very slowly. When I do a shutdown and the 
> window manager closes while the screen is black but before a shutdown, 
> the music player appears on the black screen during the few moments 
> before a complete shutdown. When it appears it is playing whatever 
> music that was suppose to play when I only heard white noise. I sure 
> hope someone can help me with this, I love this little computer and 
> have used it for two or three years almost every day. I would really 
> like to be able to hear music again.
>
> David
>
> Steffen Dreise wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> first you need the alsa-utils. After you got these tools you can run
>> "alsaconf". This will configure the card and put all things where they
>> sould be. After this run "alsamixer" and turn the devices on (master and
>> pcm). Default they are muted, you can unmuted them with "m". After you
>> had configured your mixer run "alsactl store" as root.This will store
>> your settings in the config file. After rebooting the sound settings
>> will be the same before the reboot :)
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Steffen
>>
>>
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