[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#279157: alsa-base: can no longer reliably use midi

[Itai Seggev]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.6a-7
Severity: important

Sometime in the past two or three weeks, the behaviour of alsa changed.
I modify the alsa init script so that it loads sound font files for my
SBLive automagically. This used to work fine, but now I get the error
message "No Emux synth hwdep device is found." Once I log in, I can sometimes
load the soundfont manually, sometimes not. If the soundfont will load
manually, then everythink works just fine. If the soundfont will not load
manually (I get the same error message), then other midi programs will 
fail as well. For example, pmidi will get into a state where I can't kill 
it (not even with a kill -9). Any help would be appreciated. 



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8cavy1
Locale: LANG=he_IL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.6-4    ALSA utilities
ii  debconf                       1.4.39     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.10.3     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-pre6-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                      2.4.26-1.1 Linux module utilities
ii  psmisc                        21.5-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

-- debconf information:
  alsa-common/card-list:
* alsa-base/alsactl_store_on_shutdown: always autosave