[SOLVED] alsa daemon error during init with Thinkpad X220

Question

Hi,
I just updated my system (including a kernel update). After reboot, I found alsa daemon, which is used to restore previous volume level, failed to start. I tried to start that daemon manually after the boot process is completed, and that produced an error message
sudo rc.d start alsa
:: Restoring ALSA Levels [BUSY]
Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Intel CougarPoint HDMI" "HDA:14f1506e,17aa21da,00100000 HDA:80862805,80860101,00100000" "0x17aa" "0x21da"
Hardware is initialized using a generic method
[FAIL]
However, the volume level restored successfully. It seems that recent Intel plantform provides two soundcard, and that error only affected the secondary card, which has nothing to do about system volume level.
Anyway, I hate to have a ``[FAIL]'' During init process. Any suggesting to get rid of that problem? Thanks
System Info: (I use linux-ck as my kernel with modified config)
uname -a
Linux Thomas 3.2.1-2-ck #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 15 00:16:41 CST 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b4)
00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev b4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation QM67 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 (rev 5e)
0d:00.0 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e823 (rev 07)
0e:00.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 04)
config.gz:
http://codepad.org/XtUSbtdw
(Edit typo)
Last edited by cap_sensitive (2012-01-17 06:12:01)

Answer 1

This morning, I performed a system update and I did not see any errors with alsa when I rebooted.  Audio hardware is:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
Have you tried manually restarting alsa after the system boots up to see if you get the same error?  You can restart alsa with the following command:
sudo /etc/rc.d/alsa force-restart
Post your results.  If the error occurs during the manual restart, it should also include some details about what caused the error