"asoundconf set-default-card" directions incomplete

Added the correct package (at least for asoundconf). Not quite sure what is throwing the notification.

Here's my dpkg.log if it helps in identifying what threw the notification.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it without more information.

Please include the information requested from the "Reporting Sound Bugs" section of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems as separate attachments.

It would be especially helpful to know what version of the alsa-lib you upgraded to right before the error occurred.

Thanks

-Eddie

 http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=d4839d8a105e7b8068cb21dd72d421de2ba0efa1

Knowing sound hardware info is not needed for this bug, and since we use PulseAudio, this notification is probably not needed. Will remove it after alpha.

in ubuntu.new

This bug was fixed in the package alsa-lib - 1.0.18-1ubuntu8

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alsa-lib (1.0.18-1ubuntu8) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Don't display notifier hint if in GNOME (LP: #328245)

 -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:27:49 -0400

I received the same warning today in KDE, exactly as the original poster noted.

As with the original poster, I found the directions unclear, and had to use the asoundconf list command, which was not in the warning, to find out the name of the sound card, and then re-run the command with that name appended to the end of the command.

If this is going to be displayed, can the directions be clarified so that we don't have to read the manual and try to interpret what was meant by the error?

I'm also unclear as to why this was necessary. That might be useful for people who are being asked to run through this set of instructions.

I woke up to the same notification today. I installed Kubuntu 9.04 alpha6 fresh and have over the last couple days. So I had not done any special sound installations at all, just the standard updates.

At least the commands worked without sudo :-)

I did everything mention above -- still no sound. I began messing with the sound settings only because I wasn't able to use Skype. Everything worked fine in Ubuntu 8.04. When I did the upgrade to 8.10 I lost my sound-capture. When I tried to fix the problem, I've lost all sound.

Here's what the little lightbulb indicates:

New Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) configuration presets have been added. Please execute the asoundconf(1) set-default-card macro in a Terminal now to refresh your user's configuration presets. You may accomplish this task by executing the following command in a Terminal: asoundconf set-default-card

My soundcard is listed as SI7012. I followed directions, without any change to my problem.

I followed this stupid command and now my sound doesn't work anymore. It took me ages to get everything right and now the system is sending me messages telling me things that break it all over again. Not amused.

This is a non-issue in karmic, as the notifier hint has been removed from alsa-lib, and the asoundconf tool has been removed from alsa-utils.

It is an intractable problem for me. I have a ThinkPad Z60m and have had no sound at all since "upgrading" from 8.10 to 9.04, though I do have it when running the live CD. Here's the output of asoundconf list: ~$ asoundconf list
Names of available sound cards:

Note, no sound cards listed.

Here, lspci:

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)
14:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
14:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 08)
14:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 17)
14:00.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 08)
14:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)

I have uninstalled ALSA, Pulse, reinstalled both, and all to no avail. If I can't figure this out by tomorrow, it's back to 8.10 for me...but that means backing up every damn TomTom note, bookmarks, God knows what.

This is a bug, believe me.

Could you plesae run "apport-collect -p alsa-base 5500"?

Do you also have any .asoundrc files in your home directory?