[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#524027: alsa-utils: no more sound detected

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.19-2
Severity: normal

Some time during the last 3 days, sound stopped working on my box.
I can't see the snd_* modules loaded. I'm sure if I'll load them
manually, they'll start working. But earlier they were automatically
loaded. So what really got changed in the last 3 days.

I look at the NEWS for this package and this is what it says:
  alsaconf was upstream's way to detect sound cards and generate
  system-wide ALSA configurations. However, this should have been
  unnecessary for a very long time, with the introduction of udev
  support and its automatic hardware detection. If this isn't the
  case for you, it's a bug which should be filed and fixed properly.

I see that you recommend filing a bug report, thus this bug report. I'm
not sure what exactly caused it.

But I'm sure this erratic behavior is because of something else. :-)
Because even the wireless drivers don't load any more. I already have
udev from unstable at version 0.140-2.

What else do you think I should check ?

Ritesh


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-custom (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20080819-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  libasound2                1.0.19-1       shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                     2.9-4          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090314-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base          1.0.19.dfsg-3  base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-22         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools         3.7-pre9-1     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-11.3    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base                  1.0.19.dfsg-3 ALSA driver configuration files
ii  pciutils                   1:3.1.2-3     Linux PCI Utilities

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

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