ArchSnaps -- Daily Snapshots Downloader

Hi guys, I've coded a new tiny bash script that can be run from cron. It can download any architecture selected automatically by running simple commands.
See this wiki page for more details and code it self at http://wiki.gotux.net/code/bash/archsnaps I hope this helps some one else, like it does me Thanks.
EDITED: See ArchDL instead now.
https://github.com/GoTux/Bash/blob/master/archdl.sh
Last edited by TuxLyn (2012-12-19 10:20:30)

Updated Code: v0.1.1 – fixed urls spaces issue.
@Awebb, lol well... I've coded this script to help me grab daily iso's without me actually doing all the extra work, and I can put this in cron and add extra option to rotate the iso's

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HR - Daily Snapshot Issues with Future Dated Changes

The w_employee_daily_snp_f_1 table has timing issues. The effective end date on all per_all_assignments_f, per_all_people_f, etc always shows the time at midnight. For example: 08/14/2009 12:00:00 AM. When this person has a new assignment, for one day only, the extract does not pick up this person. See example below:
Employee 123 has a supervisor change and the new supervisor is effective on 6/15/2009
Emp Eff Start Date Eff End Date Supervisor
123 01/01/2009 12:00:00 AM 06/14/2009 12:00:00 AM 888
123 06/15/2009 12:00:00 AM 12/31/4712 12:00:00 AM 555
When the ETL runs on the night of 6/14/09 at 7:35:42 PM, this record does not get picked up because according to the apps.per_all_assignments_f table on the day of 6/14/09 this person does not have an active assignment. There is one day when the person (according to the system) does not have a supervisor. The next night, on 6/15/09 10:34:18 PM the record reappears and does so every night until the assignment record is again end dated. This only occurs for future dated HR changes.
This is a big problem because if the future dated change is for a supervisor, not only does the supervisor not appear in the daily snapshot, but either does any of his/her subordinates. Has anyone else run into this problem? How did you solve it? Did you customize all the HR mappings?

Have posted an updated version of the MST to my webspace here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/minkus/shockwave/shockwave115606mst2.zip
This new version fixes the following issues (changes to this version in bold):
MsiInstaller repair & errors on first run as non-admin (removes 'AppData' directory entries)
DCOM errors once Shockwave is installed (adds double quotes to the beginnning of LocalServer32 value)
Incorrect TypeLib paths in the registry (fixed to use built-in [SystemFolder] property)
Default CLSID description value missing (set to 'Shockwave ActiveX Control', as per the executable installer)
Incorrect Shockwave 10 paths in the registry (fixed to use built-in [SystemFolder] property)
Misspelt 'OptionalComponets' registry key (renamed to 'OptionalComponents')
Missing .dcr, .dir, .dxr Content Type registry values (included in the executable installer)
Fixed incorrect AppID registry key (set to use installer's [VERSION] variable)
Removed 'Launch SWDNLD.exe' shortcut created in Programs subfolder (people don't want this - see here)
I have tested this on my network and it all seems to work fine. Unfortunately my original plan to use the executable installer didn't work out as it does not include the Shockwave 10 compatibility components described here and here, so it looks like I'll have to keep this MST file up to date with the latest versions until Adobe fix the problems themselves...
If you want to see the changes that I have made, load up Adobe's 11.5.6.606 MSI file in Orca, then use Transform / Apply Transform to apply the MST, and look for the entries in green.
Please post any feedback to this thread, and I will try to respond if I can help!
Chris Hill

Cvs daily snapshot packages

Hi there,
I have some questions about cvs daily snapshot.
The problem is for the package eo-snapshot in AUR
Here is the PKGBUILD
# Contributor: Sebastien Piccand <[email protected]>
pkgname=eo-snapshot
pkgver=20060411
_ver=11Apr2006
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="EO is a templates-based, ANSI-C++ compliant evolutionary computation library"
url="http://eodev.sourceforge.net/"
license="LGPL"
depends=()
source=(http://www.lri.fr/~marc/EO/snapshot/eo_src.tgz)
md5sums=('f4e001d00405292712e5a62599749c3d')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/eo${_ver}
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
I have to remove the _ver variable which is not required.
I have to use the daily snapshot because:
1. The stable version does not compile
2. I don't have access to CVS
The version(=folderOfSources=date) of the package is a bit weird and stored as:
11Apr2006.
I was asked to change the version so I moved it to 20060411 which seems to be the case for the usual snapshots.
I used the variable _ver so that one has just have to modify the beginning of the PKGBUILD when a new snapshot comes. But it is definitely not really needed so I have to remove it, which means you have to edit the build() function at each snapshot.
A workaround is to use
cd $startdir/src/eo*
instead of
cd $startdir/src/eo11Apr2006
in the build(function)
In this case now the version of the snapshot is only discriminated by:
1. the pkgver
2. the md5sum
But the package is updated daily and there should be a way to simplify the update process. The daily snapshot does not contain the date so we can't have access to the previous snapshot.
Can I, as for the CVS versions, use an empty md5sum() and just the date for the pkgver ?
Or should the package be a mess to maintain ?
Thanks

Thanks a lot.
The package is working.
I now have some questions about the provides() and conflicts() fields of some packages.
Here are 2 packages I put on AUR recently: eo-snapshot, eo-cvs
I am thinking of removing eo-snapshot but it can be good to keep it for people who don't have access to CVS.
In this case eo-snapshot and eo-cvs will conflict. Once a new, working, stable version of eo will be out, I (or anybody) will probably make a package (called eo).
So I am thinking of using the fields provides=('eo') for both packages, and conflicts=('eo-snapshot') or ('eo-cvs')
Is it the right thing to do ?
An other question:
libge can use galib if it is compiled with galib support, so should I make a libge-galib version (with galib in makedepends) or put a comment somewhere (where) that asks the user to install galib before building libge to enable the galib support ?
An other one
eo-cvs(or eo-snapshot) and galib both provide a /usr/lib/libga.a file, so they conflict with one another. Is there any workaround to install both?

Help with GL Daily Rates download from website in to Excel

Hi all,
I have a requirement wherein I need to create a concurrent program that will update the daily rates table in GL. The rates need to be pulled from www. oanda.com
If anybody has any experience in updating the daily rates table automatically would appreciate if that is shared.
Here the problem that I have is that we are planning to get daily rates from oanda.com So I am looking for some method to get data from site and upload interface table
automatically. We can also receive daily csv files from them mailed at our inbox, but then not getting any clue as to how can we automatically FTP the file to unix box
so that we can then use that file to insert records into interface table. Any kind of response is welcome and appreciated.
Thanks

Duplicate - GL Daily Rates download from Oanda.com

Daily Support Downloads

How do I get rid of the Daily Support Downloads??? I have checked "NO} in every box twice & e-mailed ASC also to no avail!!Please help - it's filling up my inbox!!

Hi, never heard of these, what App is doing this?
Must be some 3rd party thing!???

Daily snapshot solution

Hi All,
i have a requirement something like this
i will get some open and closed items in the trans data
let say the data looks like below
no     open_date     closed_Date     status     load date     amt
1     08/26/2007          O     08/27/07     100
2     08/22/07               O     08/27/07     200
3     08/26/07               O     08/27/07     10
4     08/26/07               O     08/27/07     50
2     08/22/07     08/28/07                     C             08/28/07     -200
1     08/26/07     08/28/07          C              08/28/07     -100
until the items is closed the amount is outstanding.
so if the user want to report on aspecific data range lets say outstanding amount
between 08/22/07 to 08/24/07 report should look like this:
Date          outstanding amt
08/22/07           200
08/23/07          200
08/24/07          200
but there are no records for dates 08/23/07 and 08/24/07 but still the amount is outstanding on those days.
one way of achiving this is run a self update and populate the entries if there is not change, but the volume is huge,
thats why i am looking for any other options to do this.
did anyone had to implement this kind of solution, please advice.

I also get this - it's quite annoying.
This may help:
#!/bin/sh
svcadm disable -t time-slider
for f in `zfs list -H -t snapshot -o name`; do zfs release -r org.opensolaris:time-slider-plugin:zfs-send $f; done
svcadm clear svc:/application/time-slider/plugin:zfs-send
svcadm enable time-slider

Daily ISO Snapshots ?

What happened to daily snapshots ? The last snapshot is 5 days ago on April 12th.
http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/
Also, does any one here have 2012-04-01 snapshot ISO ? I found it most stable.
I had random installer errors with ISO's from 2nd to 12th.
Last edited by TuxLyn (2012-04-18 03:16:43)

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 02505.html
Last edited by the.ridikulus.rat (2012-04-18 06:20:33)

Snapshot and backup

Hello BW Experts,
Current Scenario:
There is a daily snapshot of the BW system in nite for our Production server. During this they have to stop any jobs / loads running at that time.
Secondly they take a backup every weekend. They stop any jobs / loads during that time also.
Wondering if you could provide ur experiences, that would very great of you..
1) Is snapshot necessary every day?
2) what is the alternative to daily snapshot?
3) what is the best procedure for daily snapshot ?
4) is there a procedure not to stop the loads / jobs during snapshot ?
5) Is backup necessary every weekend?
6) what is the alternative to weekly backup?
7) what is the best procedure for weekly backup ?
8) is there a procedure not to stop the loads / jobs during backup ?
9) is there any doc / paper / link / notes for the snapshots and backups for BW production system.
10)what is the typical time taken for snapshot?
11) what is the typical time taken for backup ?
any does please mail to [email protected]
Thanks,
BWer

Thanks for the valuable info Mimosa.
In our company, they call the snapshot: copy of the production box to the box on the SAN network. The copy is made to the disc. Here the snapshot disc is on RAID 0 and production disc is on RAID 5. They do this every night.
In our company backup is : taking copy to the tape. they do this every weekend.
Its interesting that they do the 'split mirror on-line backup' daily during system is available to all users & jobs. Wondering if you have any details of this backup. What is the procedure called. What level is this copy done, on the database level, network functionality or sap functionality.....?
Suggestions appreciated.
Thanks,
BWer

ASM backup strategies with SAN snapshots

Hello folks,
in one of our setups we have a database server (11.2) that has only binaries and config (not the datafiles) and all ASM disks that are on the SAN. The SAN has daily snapshots, so the datafiles are backed up. My question is, how do I proceed if the database server fails and needs to be reinstalled? My question is how do I tell to the grid that we have already a diskgroup with disks on the SAN. I found md_backup and md_restore, but I am not sure how / when to proceed with md_restore.
I have searched some time, but I am quite confused with the approaches, please note that RMAN is not an option in this environment.
Thanks in advance
Alex

Hi,
O.k. that changes things. You should have mentioned that in the beginning of your post, that you shutdown the database before you doing the snapshot and your are not using archivelog mode.
I would advise to also dismount the diskgroups before doing the snapshots.
However when was the last time you tried the archivelog mode? 11g increased the performance a lot.
Note: In this case the snapshot is only a point in time view. In case of an error, you will loose data. (The last hours from your last snapshot).
Now regarding your questions:
=> You will install a new system with GI and database software. You will need a new diskgroup (e.g. INFRA) for the new OCR and Voting disks (they should not be contained in the other diskgroups like DATA and FRA, so no need to snapshot the old INFRA).
=> Then simply present the LUNs from DATA and FRA diskgroup to the new server. ASM will be able to mount the diskgroups as soon as all disks are available (and have the right permission). No need for md_backup or restore. MD_BACKUP backups the contents of the ASM headers, but since you still have the disks this meta information is still intact.
=> Reregister the database and the services with the Grid Infrastructure (srvctl add database / srvctl add service etc.). Just make sure to point to the correct spfile (you can find that e.g. with ASMCMD).
=> Start database...
That is if your snapshot did work. Just have another forum thread, where a diskgroup got corrupted due to snapshot (luckily only FRA).
And just as reminder: A snapshot is not a backup. Depending on how the storage is doing the snapshot, you should take precautions to move it to separate disks and verfiy it (that it is usable).
Regards
Sebastian

Manage btrfs snapshots

One of the feature that i much like about btrfs is Snapshot.
What i want to do is to create snapshots of /home every 5/15 minutes (i have to test better the impact on performance) and retain:
02 - Yearly snapshots
12 - Monthly snapshots
16 - Weekly snapshots
28 - Daily snapshots
48 - Hourly snapshots
60 - Minutely snapshots
The above scheme is indicative and i'm looking for suggestion in order to improve it.
After long google searching finally i've found a very simple but powerful bash script to manage btrfs snapshots: https://github.com/mmehnert/btrfs-snapshot-rotation
I've changed a bit the script in order to use my naming scheme
#!/bin/bash
# Parse arguments:
SOURCE=$1
TARGET=$2
SNAP=$3
COUNT=$4
QUIET=$5
# Function to display usage:
usage() {
scriptname=`/usr/bin/basename $0`
cat <<EOF
$scriptname: Take and rotate snapshots on a btrfs file system
Usage:
$scriptname source target snap_name count [-q]
source: path to make snaphost of
target: snapshot directory
snap_name: Base name for snapshots, to be appended to
date "+%F--%H-%M-%S"
count: Number of snapshots in the timestamp-@snap_name format to
keep at one time for a given snap_name.
[-q]: Be quiet.
Example for crontab:
15,30,45 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/btrfs-snapshot /home /home/__snapshots quarterly 4 -q
0 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/btrfs-snapshot /home /home/__snapshots hourly 8 -q
Example for anacrontab:
1 10 daily_snap /usr/local/bin/btrfs-snapshot /home /home/__snapshots daily 8
7 30 weekly_snap /usr/local/bin/btrfs-snapshot /home /home/__snapsnots weekly 5
@monthly 90 monthly_snap /usr/local/bin/btrfs-snapshot /home /home/__snapshots monthly 3
EOF
exit
# Basic argument checks:
if [ -z $COUNT ] ; then
echo "COUNT is not provided."
usage
fi
if [ ! -z $6 ] ; then
echo "Too many options."
usage
fi
if [ -n "$QUIET" ] && [ "x$QUIET" != "x-q" ] ; then
echo "Option 4 is either -q or empty. Given: \"$QUIET\""
usage
fi
# $max_snap is the highest number of snapshots that will be kept for $SNAP.
max_snap=$(($COUNT -1))
# $time_stamp is the date of snapshots
time_stamp=`date "+%F_%H-%M"`
# Clean up older snapshots:
for i in `ls $TARGET|sort |grep ${SNAP}|head -n -${max_snap}`; do
cmd="btrfs subvolume delete $TARGET/$i"
if [ -z $QUIET ]; then
echo $cmd
fi
$cmd >/dev/null
done
# Create new snapshot:
cmd="btrfs subvolume snapshot $SOURCE $TARGET/"${SNAP}-$time_stamp""
if [ -z $QUIET ]; then
echo $cmd
fi
$cmd >/dev/null
I use fcontab
[root@kabuky ~]# fcrontab -l
17:32:58 listing root's fcrontab
@ 5 /usr/local/bin/btrfs-snapshot /home /home/__snapshots minutely 60 -q
@ 1h /usr/local/bin/btrfs-snapshot /home /home/__snapshots hourly 48 -q
@ 1d /usr/local/bin/btrfs-snapshot /home /home/__snapshots daily 28 -q
@ 1w /usr/local/bin/btrfs-snapshot /home /home/__snapshots weekly 16 -q
@ 1m /usr/local/bin/btrfs-snapshot /home /home/__snapshots monthly 12 -q
And this is what i get
[root@kabuky ~]# ls /home/__snapshots
[root@kabuky ~]# ls -l /home/__snapshots
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jul 15 19:00 hourly-2011-10-31_17-00
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jul 15 19:00 hourly-2011-10-31_17-44
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jul 15 19:00 minutely-2011-10-31_17-18
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jul 15 19:00 minutely-2011-10-31_17-20
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jul 15 19:00 minutely-2011-10-31_17-22
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jul 15 19:00 minutely-2011-10-31_17-24
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jul 15 19:00 minutely-2011-10-31_17-26
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jul 15 19:00 minutely-2011-10-31_17-32
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jul 15 19:00 minutely-2011-10-31_17-37
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jul 15 19:00 minutely-2011-10-31_17-42

tavianator wrote:
Cool, I just wasn't sure if the "And this is what i get" was what you were expecting.
Looks good, I may take a look since I'm using btrfs. Don't confuse this for a backup though .
Sorry for confusion, my english is not very good
Yes this is not a backup.
It's a sort of parachute if you do something stupid with your files you can at any time come back

Schedule Snapshots Rotation

Hello,
I have two Hyper-V servers running Replica feature, it is working great, but it only protects me from hardware failure.
Now I want to have snapshots enabled for quick rollbacks (and full backups for more restoring options, but that's for later).
I found this script which describes how to schedule a snapshot each 7 days: https://support.managed.com/kb/a1872/how-to-automatically-rotate-hyperv-snapshots.aspx
From what I understand, it will rotate the Snapshot each 7 days, creating a new one and deleting the previous... but I am looking for something more complicated.
What I really wanted was having a snapshot each 7 days, just like that example, but keeping the last two weeks, and also have a new snapshot daily. So I would always have three separate snapshots instances (2 weeks old, 1 week old and "yesterday").
If I notice performance degradation, I will only keep 2 snapshots (1 week and 1 day old).
Does anyone know how to do it?
Thanks,
Rafael

Hi Brian,
Thank you very much for your answer.
Well, I am not thinking of snapshots as a backup. I am thinking about a fast way to do a rollback in case of need.
Recently I had a problem with a server where the last backup I had was 5 days before, and recover was not very fast (very fast I mean a few minutes, if that much). Snapshots are a way to cover me from that kind of problem.
Because of the quantity of servers I run, most of them have automatic updates. I had a case not long ago that one update messed up the "fonts" on a windows server 2003. I also have some servers where more then one people have access... once a employee
deleted by accident something he was not supposed to.
Beyond having snapshots, I will also have proper backup. Maybe having 2 weeks of snapshots is a little too much. But I think having at least one day and a week always recoverable can save me some headaches.
So... my question is how to make a script to always have a one week old and a one day old snapshot. The script I have for a week is:
$Days = 7 #change this value to determine the number of days to rotate.
$VMs = Get-VM
foreach($VM in $VMs){
$Snapshots = Get-VMSnapshot $VM
foreach($Snapshot in $Snapshots){
if ($snapshot.CreationTime.AddDays($Days) -lt (get-date)){
Remove-VMSnapshot $Snapshot
Checkpoint-VM $VM
How to add a daily snapshot without overwriting the weekly snapshots?

Glacial Download Speed On A Cable/DSL

I just had Road Runner installed yesterday and I celebrated by downloading the second season of "Battlestar Galactica" and all went well except for the episode, "Ressurrection Ship, Pt. 1", which is still downloading well over eight hours after I purchased it. Once I found out about the "Check For Purchases" feature, I stopped what I thought was a stalled download and rebooted the computer, just to eliminate it as a cause, and, well, it's not the cause. There's something wrong with this particular file. There has to be.

This does seem tro be a prevalent problem with large file downloads from Apple. I wonder if it is in some way influenced by an accounts daily data download rates/volumes. I mean to say, if you're hogging the data pipe with your downloads I'll get bent out of shape waiting for my downloads. I suspect what you're encountering is associated with Apple's attempt to avoid any one account from consuming too much of the available download bandwidth.
I experienced the same issue when downloading Commander in Chief, Series 1 TV Show videos. The first one or two went super fast and then the 3rd or 4th one took hours to download.
I do believe you can enhance your account to provide it with a higher daily data bandwidth level.

Software Update, Check Daily: Never notifies me

I have my software update set to "Check Daily" and "Download in Background & Notify"
But in years, it has Never notified me of new updates.
If I hit "Check Now" it often DOES find new updates.
Why doesn't "Check Daily" work ?
Dual G4 1.25GHz MDD, OSX 10.4.10, 2 GB RAM, ethernet to DSL 10 Mbit ADSL2 modem.

Hello William:
Do a find on "plist." Trash anything that says com.apple.softwareupdate........ (there may be two or three). Restart. Enter your personal preferences. If the preference file(s) are corrupt, this will address that issue.
Incidentally, I am probably old school. I always check manually myself.
Barry

Local Time Machine snapshots in Mountain Lion on Macbook Pr

Does Time Machine take local snapshots in Mountain Lion? When I enter Time Machine on my Macbook Pro, it shows only backups made with my external hard drive. The timeline appears white. Where do I find the local (internal) backups?

Yes, Time Machine takes local snapshots in Mountain Lion. To see them, try disconnecting your external drive and then entering Time Machine.
The following bit is from Mac Help.
charlie
About local snapshots
If you have a portable computer, Time Machine keeps a copy of everything on your computer’s internal disk, and saves hourly “snapshots” of files that have changed. Because Time Machine stores the snapshots on your computer’s internal drive, they are called “local snapshots” to distinguish them from backups stored on an external backup drive. Time Machine saves local snapshots on portable computers only, and not on desktop computers.
Local snapshots are periodically thinned to save disk space. A single daily snapshot is saved for every 24 hours, counting from the time you start or restart your computer. Similarly, a single weekly snapshot is saved for one week.
If disk space becomes very low, additional thinning is done:
When the disk’s free space is less than 20% of its total available space, Time Machine removes snapshots starting with the oldest one first, and working toward the newest one. If enough space becomes free so that the disk’s free space is more than 20% of its total available space, Time Machine stops removing snapshots.
If the disk’s free space falls below 10% of its total available space, or is less than 5 GB, the task of removing snapshots will be given high priority on your Mac. When free space is between 10%–20% of total available space, removal continues at a lower priority.
If Time Machine is unable to free up enough space to get above the 10% or 5 GB threshold, Time Machine removes all snapshots except the current one, and stops creating new snapshots. Once free space rises above the 10% / 5 GB threshold, a new snapshot is created, and the previous one is removed.
If you want Time Machine to stop saving local snapshots, open Time Machine preferences and slide the switch to Off. Snapshots will resume when you turn Time Machine back on.

[SOLVED] HDMI audio not working (worked in Ubuntu)

hi there,
I have very new hardware (Intel Core i5 2500, using the internal GPU) and already knew that it would probably take me a while to get everything working (especially the GPU). I first tried Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha with the xorg-edgers ppa, which already supported the new GPU, including 3D acceleration... unfortunately, it made my X server crash about every 15 minutes. Having heard about ArchLinux before I thought I should give it a try. Turned out the packages that I need for my GPU are only available in testing (xf86-video-intel 2.14, Mesa 7.10, Kernel 2.6.37), so I'm running on the testing repository right now. But I gotta say that I'm pretty impressed by ArchLinux, Compiz is working perfectly smooth and the whole system feels way faster than Ubuntu.
Now regarding my problem, I can't get my HDMI audio to work. Usually I would have said to myself "well, ALSA doesn't support it yet, I guess I'm gonna have to wait" . But the reason I'm writing this thread anyway is that it was working fine in Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha. In Ubuntu, I could use the alsa device hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=2 for HDMI audio. The strange thing is, this device doesn't exist on my ArchLinux system. Here is my "aplay -L" output.
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=PCH
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
In Ubuntu, I also had hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=1 and hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=2. So my question is, why are those missing on my system? Kernel and ALSA are the same version (2.6.37 / 1.0.23)!? I also already downloaded a Daily Snapshot of ALSA and did a ./configure, make, sudo make install - still no luck. And btw, DEV=0 outputs sound through my default speakers...
cat /proc/asound/pcm
00-00: ALC892 Analog : ALC892 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
00-01: ALC892 Digital : ALC892 Digital : playback 1
00-03: HDMI 0 : HDMI 0 : playback 1
00-07: HDMI 1 : HDMI 1 : playback 1
00-08: HDMI 2 : HDMI 2 : playback 1
cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
HDA Intel PCH at 0xfe620000 irq 51
any help would be appreciated..
...and really thanks to the whole community, my system is stable as never before and the ArchLinux Wiki is probaby the first Linux Wiki that actually helped me solve my problems.
Last edited by 65kid (2011-01-27 18:05:09)

Nevermind, I fixed it myself. ;)
cat /proc/asound/pcm
00-00: ALC892 Analog : ALC892 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
00-01: ALC892 Digital : ALC892 Digital : playback 1
00-03: HDMI 0 : HDMI 0 : playback 1
00-07: HDMI 1 : HDMI 1 : playback 1
00-08: HDMI 2 : HDMI 2 : playback 1
00-08 is the missing device I was talking about, aplay -L doesn't list it, but it's there. Anyway, I can use plughw:0,8 to use HDMI audio and it works fine, although I'm still confused about the difference betwenn plughw:x,x and hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=X...

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