[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#399342: alsa-base: no (or horrible) sound with Ali M5455 AC'97

[Alexandre Pineau]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.13-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

After an upgrade to the last version of alsa / kernel, I have no sound 
(or more exactly horrible sound after the use of alsa-config).

result of lspci :
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5455 PCI AC-Link 
Controller Audio Device (rev 20)

result of dsmeg :
AC'97 1 does not respond - RESET
AC'97 1 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer.
Unable to initialize codec #1
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54888 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000

result of lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0           29596  0
snd_ac97_codec         82336  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus            2304  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            35616  0
snd_mixer_oss          15616  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                71432  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              19716  1 snd_pcm
snd                    45668  6 
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               8800  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          9480  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

Many thanks for your help.

	Best regards,

Alexandre Pineau

(The sound works perfectly before the upgrade, that's why I have choose 
to say that it is a grave bug. You can lower the severity if you want)

-- Package-specific info:
--- Begin additional package status ---
Souhait=inconnU/Installé/suppRimé/Purgé/H=à garder
| État=Non/Installé/fichier-Config/dépaqUeté/échec-conFig/H=semi-installé
|/ Err?=(aucune)/H=à garder/besoin Réinstallation/X=les deux (État,Err: majuscule=mauvais)
||/ Nom            Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  libasound2     1.0.13-1       ALSA library
--- End additional package status ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/version ---
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.11rc4 (Wed Mar 22 10:27:24 2006 UTC).
--- End /proc/asound/version ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/cards ---
 0 [M5455          ]: ICH - ALi M5455
                      ALi M5455 with ALC850 at 0x0, irq 217
--- End /proc/asound/cards ---
--- Begin /dev/snd/ listing ---
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 2006-11-19 11:32 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2006-11-19 11:32 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2006-11-19 11:32 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 25 2006-11-19 11:32 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 18 2006-11-19 11:32 pcmC0D2p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2006-11-19 11:32 timer
--- End /dev/snd/ listing ---

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-486
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  linux-sound-base           1.0.13-1      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                    1.0.13-1   ALSA utilities

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

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