[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#276272: problem with alsa-base or alsa-utils

[Carl T. Miller]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.6a-3

I had installed Sarge with the installer RC 1, and the sound system
worked perfectly.

When I just recently reinstalled using installer RC 2, sounds work
from within Gnome.  However, I get error messages when trying to
run Rhythobox, such as 'ALSA device "default" does not exist'.

I tried running alsactl store, and get this error message:
alsactl: save_state:1061: No soundcards found...

I then tried removing all modules for snd and running alsaconf.
It finds my maestro3 card and says that it has it configured correctly.
After this I have the same symptoms--sound in Gnome but no sound in
Rhythmbox.

If it helps, this is the output of lsmod | grep snd:
snd_maestro3           22824  0
snd_ac97_codec         59268  1 snd_maestro3
snd_pcm_oss            48168  0
snd_mixer_oss          16640  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                85384  2 snd_maestro3,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc         11144  1 snd_pcm
snd_timer              23172  1 snd_pcm
snd                    50660  6
snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               9824  3 snd,maestro3