[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#655455: /usr/bin/alsamixer: secondary card controls work, but no sound emitted.

[Joost Ringoot]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.23-3
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/alsamixer



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  libasound2              1.0.23-2.1       shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                   2.11.3-2         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libncursesw5            5.7+20100313-5   shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base        1.0.23+dfsg-2    base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools       3.12-2           tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                    164-3            /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  whiptail                0.52.11-1        Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base                  1.0.23+dfsg-2 ALSA driver configuration files
ii  pciutils                   1:3.1.7-6     Linux PCI Utilities

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

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Maybe it is not a bug, but then it is undocumented, or at least I can't find the documentation on it.
I'll tell a bit on the background: my headphone was broken, so I bought a new one: a wireless plantronics.
This thing comes with its own soundcard. There is a USB-stick that works as a wifistation for the headphone.
It works fine without additional driver in windows xp (same machine in multiboot). 
The soundcontrols on the headset control the volume slider on the gstreamer applet, but no sound comes through.
The card is detected as secondary card, maybe that can be changed, but I can't find this in documentation.

Thanks for your efforts,

Joost