[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#458010: Bug#458010: alsa-base: Alsa fails to find ES1988 soundcard, even though the kernel module snd_maestro3 is loaded.

[Aapo Lankinen]

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 22:02 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> Did you managed to get sound? Let me kno whether the bug can be
> closed or not. It seems to be not such important for you, though.

Yes, you guessed right; it wasn't that important to me as I'm not using
the laptop for multimedia anyway.  Sorry about that.  But now I used an
hour to test it for the benefit of other N600c users, and by rebuilding
the modules from the source package it worked like you suggested and I
got sound:

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alankine at weasel:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCI [ESS Allegro PCI], device 0: Allegro [Allegro]
  Subdevices: 2/2
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
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However, I don't understand _why_ it worked, as the source and binary
packages were of the same version.  Could you please give some insight
on that...

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alankine at weasel:~$ dpkg -l alsa-base alsa-source
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  alsa-base      1.0.15-3       ALSA driver configuration files
ii  alsa-source    1.0.15-3       ALSA driver sources
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Also, I now have two versions of the maestro3 module under
my /lib/modules/2.6.23-1-68/ dir, in
  o /lib/modules/2.6.23-1-686/kernel/sound/pci/snd-maestro3.ko
  o /lib/modules/2.6.23-1-686/updates/alsa/pci/snd-maestro3.ko
(as well as two versions of other sound modules).  How does the system
know to load the correct versions?  Is there some magic in the dirname
"updates" or what?


In conclusion: Because the maestro3 module, kernel and alsa seem to work
ok now, I'd presume that the only bug is in the binary package
dependencies.  So my guess is that the 2.6.23 kernel package should
depend on recompiled alsa modules (new binary package, perhaps?)  Is
that correct?


And finally, thanks for your help.

Regards,
Aapo


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Aapo Lankinen <aapo.lankinen at gmail.com>