[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#406738: alsa-utils: Running alsaconf stops sound card from working

[Steve Langasek]

severity 406738 normal
tags 406738 unreproducible
thanks

On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 03:52:23AM +1300, Dru wrote:
> Running alsaconf stops my sound card from working. No errors appear for
> playing sounds, nor are there any errors loading the modules for the
> sound card. Alsaconf behaves as you would normally expect. But after
> running it for the first time you can no longer output sound.
> All sound based applications work fine, and continue to play music etc
> though no sound is produced. Its like the sound is muted but volumes are
> all fine when you check.

> The only fix I could find for it was to do a purge on alsa-utils,
> alsa-base, alsa-tools and then reinstall. After reinstalling all these
> packages sound works perfectly fine again. Its only if you run alsaconf
> does sound stop working. 

> I have a Creative Labs SB Audigy. 

I've never had to run alsaconf before.  If you already had sound working,
I'm not sure why you did either?  But still, with my card running alsaconf
doesn't break the sound; it works just as well after running alsaconf as it
did before.

Please send the contents of the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file that was
generated on your system by alsaconf.

I'm downgrading this bug, because failing to configure sound correctly for
one type of sound card does not make the package unusable.

Thanks,
-- 
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