Bug 115932

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Description of problem:
[This is my tracking bug for my problems with ALSA vs. ALSA OSS.]

* After I had corrected the hwdata driver name for my audio chipset to
snd-ens1371 (bug 115651), it inserts the driver successfully, but the
testsound can not be heard. Terminal output is:

FATAL: Module snd_ens1371 is not in kernel.
vol set to 0, 0, P
pcm set to 0, 0
speaker set to 0, 0
line set to 0, 0, P
mic set to 0, 0, P
cd set to 0, 0, P
igain set to 0, 0
line1 set to 0, 0, P
dig1 set to 100, 100
phin set to 0, 0, P
phout set to 0, 0, R
video set to 0, 0, P

* I see that system-config-soundcard points aumix to /etc/.aumixrc,
but I don't know where/when that file is created with defaults which
would unmute "vol" and "pcm", so the testsound could be heard? When
running aumix manually, I end up with another file in /root/.aumixrc,
so at some point I have two such files.

* A comment in the system-config-soundcard code says it attempts at
unmuting the ALSA mixers. How? Where does /etc/.aumixrc come from
after a clean installation?

* system-config-soundcard inserts a native ALSA driver into
/etc/modprobe.conf, but aumix is for OSS, e.g. ALSA's OSS
compatibility layer.

* After reboot, aumix should have restored the OSS mixer settings.
Testsound in system-config-soundcard is still not audible, though.
Sound which uses ALSA somehow, can not be heard.

* When I work around the XMMS arts driver crash and configure it to
use native ALSA output instead of artsd, I need to run alsamixer or
alsactl (from alsa-utils package) to unmute the mixers. Similarly,
when I run a fixed KDE sound server (bug 115507), I also need to set
mixers with alsamixer/alsactl to get output.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
system-config-soundcard-1.2.2-1


Steps to Reproduce:
Well, that is the question. If I remove all audio related config
files, unload kernel modules, reboot and then restart
system-config-soundcard, what behaviour should I expect?


Additional info:
Fedora.us' ALSA packages use an ALSA "alsasound" initscript which
takes care of saving and restoring mixer settings with alsactl (but
the script also loads/unloads kernel modules). Alsa-utils' "alsaconf"
unmutes the mixers as a final step.