Bug 2125574

Summary: Update alsa-utils to upstream for RHEL 8.8
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Jaroslav Kysela <jkysela>
Component: alsa-utilsAssignee: Jaroslav Kysela <jkysela>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Erik Hamera <ehamera>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 8.8CC: ehamera, hwkernel-mgr
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Rebase, Triaged
Target Release: ---Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: alsa-utils-1.2.8-1.el8 Doc Type: Rebase: Bug Fixes and Enhancements
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Last Closed: 2023-05-16 08:40:52 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 2065600, 2125572    
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Description Jaroslav Kysela 2022-09-09 10:26:48 UTC
The latest upstream code contains support for the new hardware and few bugfixes.

Comment 3 Jaroslav Kysela 2022-11-01 09:04:03 UTC
*** Bug 2133821 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Erik Hamera 2023-01-20 01:25:11 UTC
All tests has passed. 

[root@flatworm ~]# rpm -qa alsa-utils
alsa-utils-1.2.8-1.el8.x86_64

[root@flatworm ~]# rpm -ql alsa-utils | grep bin
/usr/bin/aconnect
/usr/bin/alsaloop
/usr/bin/alsamixer
/usr/bin/alsaunmute
/usr/bin/amidi
/usr/bin/amixer
/usr/bin/aplay
/usr/bin/aplaymidi
/usr/bin/arecord
/usr/bin/arecordmidi
/usr/bin/aseqdump
/usr/bin/aseqnet
/usr/bin/axfer
/usr/bin/iecset
/usr/bin/speaker-test
/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh
/usr/sbin/alsabat-test.sh
/usr/sbin/alsactl

aplay, arecord and alsamixer has been used for testing all sound BZs.

[lhc@flatworm ~]$ speaker-test -c 2 -f 440 -t sine

speaker-test 1.2.8

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Sine wave rate is 440.0000Hz
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 96 to 1048576
Period size range from 32 to 349526
Using max buffer size 1048576
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 262144
was set buffer_size = 1048576
 0 - Front Left
 1 - Front Right
Time per period = 10.936333


[lhc@flatworm ~]$ amixer set Master playback 80%
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 52429 [80%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 52429 [80%] [on]

alsactl can return the settings to the stored state.

Comment 12 Erik Hamera 2023-01-27 17:13:22 UTC
The new package is in the distribution.

# rpm -qa alsa-utils
alsa-utils-1.2.8-1.el8.x86_64

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-16 08:40:52 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (alsa-utils bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:2877