[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#383340: alsa-base: no sound on each boot until alsaconf is used

[Andrew Archibald]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.11-4
Severity: normal

With a fresh install of etch, using the beta 3 installer, I had no sound. Running alsaconf would confirm that there were no sound 
modules running, detect the soundcard (powermac) correctly and load the relevant modules. Sound would then work until the next reboot. 
On reboot none of the modules would be loaded.

I resolved this on my system by adding the relevant modules to /etc/modules .

The modules in question are: 
snd-powermac snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc

Automatic soundcard detection/installation has worked previously in Debian testing, with this hardware. But that was a long time ago.

I'm happy to supply any further information needed to track this down.

-- Package-specific info:
--- Begin additional package status ---
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                          Version                       Description
+++-=============================-=============================-==========================================================================
ii  libasound2                    1.0.11-3                      ALSA library
--- End additional package status ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/version ---
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.11rc2 (Wed Jan 04 08:57:20 2006 UTC).
--- End /proc/asound/version ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/cards ---
 0 [Toonie         ]: PMac Toonie - PowerMac Toonie
                      PowerMac Toonie
--- End /proc/asound/cards ---
--- Begin /dev/snd/ listing ---
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 2006-08-16 17:02 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2006-08-16 17:02 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2006-08-16 17:02 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2006-08-16 17:02 timer
--- End /dev/snd/ listing ---

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  linux-sound-base           1.0.11-4      base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsof                       4.77.dfsg.1-3 List open files
ii  module-init-tools          3.2.2-3       tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                   2.4.27.0-6    Linux module utilities

Versions of packages alsa-base recommends:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.11-6   ALSA utilities

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries

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