[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#300165: alsa-base: fails to detect legacy cards, must run alsaconf,Version: 1.0.8-7

[Brian Angeletti]

Package: alsa-base
Subject: alsa-base: fails to detect legacy cards, must run alsaconf
Version: 1.0.8-7
Severity: important

This may not be your problem, but I'll report it in case it is...

The ALSA is unable to detect ISA legacy cards on startup.  I use a
CS4236B (Crystal Sound) chipset, but this problem also occurs with other
legacy chipsets I've tested as well (the kernel was set up with the
necessary
modules).  This has occured with other custom build versions (2.6.10) of
the
kernel I have used, so you may be including something in the Debian
kernels that is not present in the kernel.org version.

Running alsaconf once the system is running will detect the card properly.

List of relevant modules in my kernel version:
# Sound
CONFIG_SOUND=y

# Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
CONFIG_SND=y
CONFIG_SND_TIMER=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM=y
CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=y
CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY=y
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=m

# Generic devices
CONFIG_SND_MPU401_UART=m
CONFIG_SND_OPL3_LIB=y
CONFIG_SND_VIRMIDI=m
CONFIG_SND_MPU401=m

# ISA devices
CONFIG_SND_CS4231=m
CONFIG_SND_CS4232=m
CONFIG_SND_CS4236=m
CONFIG_SND_OPL3SA2=m

# PCI devices
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=y
CONFIG_SND_CS46XX=y
CONFIG_SND_CS4281=y


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.4-emperorbma
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  alsa-utils                 1.0.8-4       ALSA utilities
ii  debconf                    1.4.46        Debian configuration
management sy
ii  debianutils                2.13.1        Miscellaneous utilities
specific t
ii  lsof                       4.74.dfsg.2-1 List open files.
ii  module-init-tools          3.2-pre1-2    tools for managing Linux
kernel mo
ii  modutils                   2.4.26-1.2    Linux module utilities

-- debconf information:
* alsa-base/alsactl_store_on_shutdown: always autosave