Sound: no sound

[Daniel T. Chen]

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Willis H Cook wrote:
>         As before, when I turned the machine off and back on, sound
> disappeared.  This time the result of running amixer was:
[...]
>         When sound doesn't work amixer doesn't even list controls for
> Master, Master Mono or Headphone and the control for PCM is different,
> showing two channels when, with sound working, it shows only one. It's as
> if amixer reads two different configuration files.  If that's true, can
> you tell me where these files are?  Can I delete all but the one that
> works?  Please don't give up on me:  sound DOES work (sometimes) on this
> machine.  Thanks.

There is no associated configuration file; these are populated via a
mixer representation in memory. It looks like there's a codec quirk
being activated. In fact, it's beginning to look like a race condition.
What is the output from ``tail -2 /proc/asound/oss/sndstat'' when sound
works then doesn't?

Thanks,
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Daniel T. Chen            crimsun at ubuntu.com
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