Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751104AbWHIQNQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:13:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751110AbWHIQNP (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:13:15 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:16067 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751104AbWHIQNP (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:13:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:13:13 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Gene Heskett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net, Sergei Steshenko Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty? In-Reply-To: <200608091207.26156.gene.heskett@verizon.net> References: <200608091140.02777.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20060809184658.2bdfb169@comp.home.net> <200608091207.26156.gene.heskett@verizon.net> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.5 (beta25) (eggplant) (+CVS-20060326) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1679 Lines: 46 At Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:07:26 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 August 2006 11:46, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > >On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:40:02 -0400 > > > >Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greetings; > >> > >> The old fart is back again. :) > >> > >> I've just done a divide and conquer on kernel versions, and have found > >> that while I DO have a kde audio signon for kernels 2.6.18-rc1-rc3-rc4, > >> I do not have any other functioning audio, including the kde sound > >> effects I normally get. xmms and tvtime are mute, as are the firefox > >> plugins to play videos from the network. 2.6.17.8 and below works great > >> yet. > >> > >> So whats the fix? > > > >Demand stable ABI. > > It does not appear to be so. And ATM booted to 18-rc1, I didn't see an > error message when rc.local made a call of "[root@coyote gene]# alsactl > restore > alsactl: set_control:894: warning: name mismatch (Mic Boost (+20dB)/Mic > Boost (+20dB) Switch) for control #45 > alsactl: set_control:896: warning: index mismatch (0/0) for control #45 > alsactl: set_control:898: failed to obtain info for control #45 (Operation > not permitted) > [root@coyote gene]# This kind of problems can be fixed by calling "alsactl restore" with -F option. The warnings may be still there but the values are handled better. The behavior with -F could be default, but it's kept so just for the compatibility reason. Takashi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/