alsalib boot errors

[Jude DaShiell]

The effect isn't limited to archlinux either, this happens wherever this 
version of alsa is installed.  I have it on the espeakup edition of 
debian.

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, aerospace1028 at hotmail.com wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> I'm noticing a rash of alsa-lib warnings popping up durring the boot phase of my archlinux system.
> 
> I managed to capture the messages below.  I don't completely understand what alsalib is complaining about.  To me, it looks like it is having trouble 
> identifying/loading speaker configurations (I'm presuming "front," "center" and "side" refer to surround-sound speakers).  Speakup is reading these 
> messages, so I am getting sound.  I'm using a laptop, with whatever built-in sound the machine has--most often the headphone jack.
> 
> Does anyone know what might be causing this problem and how I might go about correcting it?
> 
> 
> :: Restoring ALSA Levels                                                                                                                                 
> [DONE]
> :: Starting Espeakup                                                                                                                                     
> [DONE]
> :: Starting speech dispatcher Daemon                                                                                                                     
> [BUSY]
> [Thu Oct 20 15:52:47 2011 : 439163] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.8-dev starting
>                                                                                                                                                          
> [DONE]
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround71
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.ATIIXP.pcm.modem.0:CARD=0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib conf.c:4663:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline:CARD=0,DEV=0
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.ATIIXP.pcm.modem.0:CARD=0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib conf.c:4663:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline:CARD=0,DEV=0
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.ATIIXP.pcm.modem.0:CARD=0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib conf.c:4663:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM phoneline
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.ATIIXP.pcm.modem.0:CARD=0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib conf.c:4663:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM phoneline
> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
> :: Starting Syslog-NG                                                                                                                                    
> [DONE]
> :: Starting IP Tables                                                                                                                                    
> [DONE]
> :: Starting Network                                                                                                                                      
> [DONE]
> :: Mounting Network Filesystems                                                                                                                          
> [DONE]
> :: Starting Cron Daemon                                                                                                                                  
> [DONE]
> :: Starting D-BUS system messagebus                                                                                                                      
> [DONE]
> :: Setting cpufreq governing rules , cpu 0                                                                                                               
> [DONE]
> :: Starting laptop-mode                                                                                                                                  
> [DONE] 		 	   		  

Jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
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