[Alsa-user] No state is present for card CMI8738

[Tomas Pospisek's M. L. <tp...@so...>]

The following is my problem:

$ alsactl -f .alsavoip restore
No state is present for card CMI8738

I see this "sometimes". Sometimes the above works and sometimes it returns 
with that error message.

It needs to be noted that I am suspending to ram. Nevertheless, the 
behaveour is not consistent in between "s2ram"s and I don't know whether 
that has anything to do with it either.

It also needs to be noted that alsamixer *never* has any problems 
accessing the card. But even after changing the card settings with 
alsamixer, alsactl will keep on repeating that error message.

* $ lspci
   00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)

* alsa userspace is at 1.0.13
* kernel is Debian's 2.6.18-4-686

Further, minor problems:

* After waking up from suspend the card looses its microphone   settings -
   that is - "Mic Capture" is allway reset to zero.

* Further on the choice to hide the microphone setting "Mic Capture" in
   alsamixer behind F5 irritates me a bit - there are *a lot* of very
   obscure settings (such as "IEC958 5V" - huh?), that are displayed by
   default.

What's up with that error above? What does it mean? Is there any 
way I can fix or circumvent it? Anybody a hint?
*t

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