Ubuntu
alsa-utils package

Don't drop alsaconf

Bug #54262 reported by Norbert Tretkowski on 2006-07-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #29597: alsaconf missing from alsa-utils. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	alsa-utils (Baltix)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
	alsa-utils (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Sound worked fine yesterday, but when I switched on my computer today, there was no sound. Yes, alsa modules are loaded. To fix this, I wanted to run alsaconf, but unfortunately it's not installed in dapper's alsa-utils package.

Please do _not_ drop alsaconf.

Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) on 2006-10-02

Changed in alsa-utils:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Rocco Stanzione (trappist) wrote on 2006-10-03:

Since I've already filed this bug before, and had it rejected, I'd like to chime in before it gets rejected again. Alsaconf is a buggy, sorry excuse for a configurator that happens to work. Before dropping it, please see that its functionality is replaced. For Gnome users, I hear that it is. For KDE users, especially KDE users with multiple sound cards, it's not. I assume the situation is similar for users of other desktops.

Last time this came up, I was admonished to file bugs against the failures of existing tools to solve these problems. That's good advice, but until those tools (and there should be a command line, desktop-independent tool among them) are ready to do what alsaconf has done for those of us who have come to appreciate it, please leave it as an option.

Daniel T Chen (crimsun) on 2006-11-25

Changed in alsa-utils:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Oliver Gerlich (ogerlich) wrote on 2007-02-03:

> Before dropping it, please see that its functionality is replaced. For Gnome users, I hear that it is.

Can you explain what tool is available under Gnome for this? I'm currently trying to set up an old laptop where Ubuntu fails to load a working ALSA sound driver, and hoped to get some info from alsaconf on the correct module and IRQ and the like... I had done this already once with Debian, but as kernel and ALSA have changed much since then, those infos are outdated it seems. Having alsaconf or something similar for this under Ubuntu could help a lot!