Zen mini lost sound (solved, kinda)

[ranran]

I installed Zen mini on a friends PC and all was well until I ran a full system update yesterday. Now sound is dead. He has a dual boot system (xp/zen) Gateway 7330 laptop. According to Gateway, the audio driver is Conexant http://support.gateway.com/product/ however Linux is using an Intel i810 driver. When he had KDE 3.5 installed it worked perfectly. any ideas?

[siamer]

did you try run "alsaconf" in terminal as a root to configure sound card ? Alsa was updated so maybe that's the problem and maybe you need to reconfigure it... after configure reboot and check if it's wokring if not than check:

opern pcc and go to software and check sound configuration there.check if there is good module loaded and maybe you can try tick "turn on pulse audio"

check as well if module is loaded right "lsmod | grep snd_hda_intel"...

check in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist* if that module is not blacklisted...

check that please...

Regards,
siamer

[AndrzejL]

It was asked several times in the last few days.

Hope this helps.

Andy

[melodie]

Hi,

After you run "alsaconf" as root, you will also want to run "alsactl store", as root also. If this second command happened to bring an error message stating that a file is missing under /var/lib/alsa, please tell us. Some of us do meet with this message, and some don't, depending. If that happens, creating the missing directory and missing file before repeating the "alsactl store" command does fix it. (Storing the configuration allows you to find your configs back when you start a new session).

I met with that a few days ago, and so did a French user. Now we have

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$ ls -l /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4362 avril 21 14:38 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
in the system, and the sound is back and re-configured.

I hope this helps.

[Was_Just19]

I installed Zen mini on a friends PC and all was well until I ran a full system update yesterday. Now sound is dead. He has a dual boot system (xp/zen) Gateway 7330 laptop. According to Gateway, the audio driver is Conexant http://support.gateway.com/product/ however Linux is using an Intel i810 driver. When he had KDE 3.5 installed it worked perfectly. any ideas?

Edit the file

/etc/asound.state

to be a link to

 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state

If the file doesn't exist then create it.

Change settings and reboot to test.

regards.

[AndrzejL]

I installed Zen mini on a friends PC and all was well until I ran a full system update yesterday. Now sound is dead. He has a dual boot system (xp/zen) Gateway 7330 laptop. According to Gateway, the audio driver is Conexant http://support.gateway.com/product/ however Linux is using an Intel i810 driver. When he had KDE 3.5 installed it worked perfectly. any ideas?

Edit the file

/etc/asound.state

to be a link to

 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state

If the file doesn't exist then create it.

Change settings and reboot to test.

regards.

I did that last night - it didn't worked for me - hence I was forced to find other way of fixing my installations sound volume - hence the howto. Maybe it will work for ranran doh.

Andy

[Was_Just19]

I installed Zen mini on a friends PC and all was well until I ran a full system update yesterday. Now sound is dead. He has a dual boot system (xp/zen) Gateway 7330 laptop. According to Gateway, the audio driver is Conexant http://support.gateway.com/product/ however Linux is using an Intel i810 driver. When he had KDE 3.5 installed it worked perfectly. any ideas?

Edit the file

/etc/asound.state

to be a link to

 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state

If the file doesn't exist then create it.

Change settings and reboot to test.

regards.

I did that last night - it didn't worked for me - hence I was forced to find other way of fixing my installations sound volume - hence the howto. Maybe it will work for ranran doh.

Andy

Maybe Zen does not use the   /etc/asound.state ?
If not then what does it use?  /var/lib/alsa/asound.state ?   or another file to store its sound levels?

[ranran]

Thanks to all who replied. Wanna know what was wrong? The hardware was having a bad hair day.

Seriously. I started to wonder if it was a hardware issue and figured if it was, the same problem would show up in xp. When I logged into xp all was fine, sort of. Sound worked but not through the external speakers. I turned them off then back on and BINGO, all was perfect. I rebooted into Linux and sound works and is even better than before. Go Figure.

Ranran

[AndrzejL]

Hehe glad You're sorted...

Andy

[Dragynn]

Dude, mine did this the other day after an install/update, first thing I did was look at the volume control in the tray-icon, it was turned all the way down. solution: i turned it back up.

K.I.S.S.

[AndrzejL]

Maybe Zen does not use the   /etc/asound.state ?
If not then what does it use?  /var/lib/alsa/asound.state ?   or another file to store its sound levels?

The only asound.state file I have is in /var/lib/alsa/ and after running alsactl restore the volume is being restored... I guess its a glitch of Matrix

Andy

[Taco.22]

I ran into this issue with my wife's 'puter, but not mine!  Both run Openbox.  Hers was suddenly defaulting the sound to off on reboot.

It was asked several times in the last few days.

Hope this helps.

Andy

Tried all of the above, went through umpteen other posts trying things.  It was really getting annoying.  In the end what worked for her 'puter was to launch gnome-alsamixer and set the values,  then before closing it open terminal, go su and then "alsactl store".  Did the trick.
The problem has been that everyone seems to have wound up with a different way of fixing the problem.  Typical computers - it was probably asking too much for a nice, simple uniform fix . 

[Dragynn]

I ran into this issue with my wife's 'puter, but not mine!  Both run Openbox.  Hers was suddenly defaulting the sound to off on reboot.

It was asked several times in the last few days.

Hope this helps.

Andy

Tried all of the above, went through umpteen other posts trying things.  It was really getting annoying.  In the end what worked for her 'puter was to launch gnome-alsamixer and set the values,  then before closing it open terminal, go su and then "alsactl store".  Did the trick.
The problem has been that everyone seems to have wound up with a different way of fixing the problem.  Typical computers - it was probably asking too much for a nice, simple uniform fix . 

Yeah, but it's gotta be unimaginably tough to not only constantly deal with new package updates, but ensure they work across 6 different DE's as well with all their differences, I have no idea how Tex, Neal and crew do it, it would drive me to drinkin'....ummm...well, drink more actually.

[melodie]

Yeah, but it's gotta be unimaginably tough to not only constantly deal with new package updates, but ensure they work across 6 different DE's as well with all their differences, I have no idea how Tex, Neal and crew do it, it would drive me to drinkin'....ummm...well, drink more actually.

System tools and Desktop Managers are supposed to be independant from each other. Only on complicated desktops they are sometimes brought to be mixed... but just sometimes...

[Taco.22]

Yeah, but it's gotta be unimaginably tough to not only constantly deal with new package updates, but ensure they work across 6 different DE's as well with all their differences, I have no idea how Tex, Neal and crew do it, it would drive me to drinkin'....ummm...well, drink more actually.

Not to mention the whole range of hardware and architectures that are available - some more stable/reliable than others.
Speaking of driven to drink, maybe some nice packager could package up a nice bottle of something and put in repo.  When one of those moments hits all you have to do is fire up Synaptic and do a quick download - just got to work out where to insert the tap .