[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#475849: alsa-base: Newest alsa incorrectly lists sound hardware

[Ronald]

Subject: alsa-base: Newest alsa incorrectly lists sound hardware
Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.16-1
Severity: important

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I recently reinstalled Lenny because the system started to show cracks of
all my tweaking =) . I did a reinstallation
through preseed (logs and files can be send at request) and everything seems
to work fine. After the installation,
everything works except for sound. I figured out it has to do with how the
cards are listed in which order. By
default, every program grabs card 0 (-c 0). However, do to a bug (?) my MIDI
card is listed as first soundcard (which
is quite stupid if you ask me...). Every program now tries to play sound
through my MIDI (he doesn't like that).
Every program failes. For example:
alsamixer
No mixer elems found

BUT:
alsamixer -c 1
<shows expected output :) >

The second card is the soundcard which can play normal sound. So it seems
that alsa incorrectly lists the sound
hardware in my computer. (NOTE: Sound worked out of the box before!). And
no, I did *not* mess with the alsa
configuration :)


-- Package-specific info:
--- Begin additional package status ---
Gewenst=(U)Onbekend/Installeren/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Niet/geInstalleerd/Config/Uitgepakt/(F)config-mislukt/Half-geinst
|/ Fout?=(geen)/Hold/Reinst nodig/X=beide (Status,Fout: hoofdlett=ernstig)
||/ Naam                      Versie                    Omschrijving
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii  libasound2                1.0.16-2                  ALSA library
--- End additional package status ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/version ---
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.15 (Tue Nov 20 19:16:42
2007 UTC).
--- End /proc/asound/version ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/cards ---
 0 [port           ]: MTPAV - MTPAV on parallel port
                      MTPAV on parallel port at 0x378
 1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xb0000000 irq 20
--- End /proc/asound/cards ---
--- Begin /dev/snd/ listing ---
totaal 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 apr 13 12:37 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 32 apr 13 12:37 controlC1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  8 apr 13 12:37 midiC0D0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 56 apr 13 12:37 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 48 apr 13 12:37 pcmC1D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 49 apr 13 12:37 pcmC1D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  1 apr 13 12:37 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 apr 13 12:37 timer
--- End /dev/snd/ listing ---

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  linux-sound-base           1.0.16-1      base package for ALSA and OSS
soun
ii  lsof                       4.78.dfsg.1-4 List open files
ii  module-init-tools          3.3-pre11-4   tools for managing Linux kernel
mo

Versions of packages alsa-base recommends:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.16-1   ALSA utilities

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

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