ALSA in Mandriva 2009.1 doesn't always load correctly at Boot up.

[mbrace7forums at aim.com]

Sometimes I have to boot up the computer a second time to get sound from anything. On checking ALSA by:

# alsamixer -c 0 

I see that when sound is not working the Alsamixer is showing incomplete only one of the sound controls appears instead of seeing the Master and all the regular other sound adjusters. Also ALSA is choosing the USB Webcamera instead of the Sound card.

After rebooting the sound is as normal! The Alsamixer shows as it should with Master Sound and all the sound level adjusters in place and nothing muted.

Is there a way of making Mandriva 2009.1 select as default the sound card each time on boot up avoiding reboots?

Pulse sound is disabled so as to allow Skype to work properly with
# LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype.

ALSA lib conf.c:3952:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM front:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0

I have included part of what shows to show where the sound card is installed.

# [root at localhost ~]# lsmod | grep sound
sound core                 8256 1 snd
# [root at localhost ~]# lsmod | grep audio
snd_usb_audio              85376 0
snd_usb_lib                                     16644 1 snd_usb_audio 
snd_hwdep                                        7656 4 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec,wavefront,snd_opl3_lib
snd_pcm                                         84616 8 snd_usb_audio,snd_cmipci,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_cs4236,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm_o
ss
snd                                             63812 23 snd_usb_audio,snd_cmipci,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_cs4236,snd_mpu401,snd_wavefront,snd_wss_lib  ,sndopl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_  mixer_oss
usbcore                                        188432 7 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,gspca_zc3xx,gspca_main,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
# [root at localhost ~]#

Any ideas on how to avoid any clashes and that Mandriva loads each time the ALSA sound correctly?

Moshe




-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/pipermail/linux-il/attachments/20091204/88ed6d4d/attachment.html>