[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#500398: Bug#500398: alsa-base: no sound after upgrade until running alsaconf

[Adrian Mariano]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 09:17:48PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Adrian Mariano [090704 14:07 -0400]
> > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 07:00:56PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > > * Adrian Mariano [081205 13:10 +0100]
> > > [...]
> > > > Upgrading iceweasel didn't help.  I think that the problem may be
> > > > caused by flash or some other plugin rather than the browser itself.
> > > > But once the problem is created, no sound works from the browser.  
> > > 
> > > It seems to be a bug in the plugin you use. Could you please sent
> > > an URI of a "silent" video or sound, so I can verify your bug?
> > > 
> > > And please cc to 500398 at bugs.debian.org as well. So your problem is
> > > documented and traceable.
> > 
> > Now that alsaconf has been removed from the distribution I cannot find
> > any way of getting sound to work with my ICH9 intel sound.  (I have
> > been using a sound card that does not exhibit this problem, but I
> > tried to go back to the intel sound to troubleshoot a problem with the
> > sound and I find it impossible to go back due to the lack of
> > alsaconf.)  
> > 
> > adrian> aplay -c 1 clip1.wav
> > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
> > aplay: main:608: audio open error: No such file or directory
> 
> What tells:
> $ lsmod | grep snd
> $ dpkg -l | grep oss
> $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
> $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf
> $ cat /etc/modules
> $ ls -al /etc/modprobe.d/linux-sound*
> 

adrian> lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel         325688  0 
snd_usb_audio          70304  0 
snd_ca0106             27584  0 
snd_pcm_oss            32832  0 
snd_ac97_codec         88484  1 snd_ca0106
snd_mixer_oss          12320  1 snd_pcm_oss
ac97_bus                1728  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                62596  5 snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_ca0106,snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_codec
snd_usb_lib            13440  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_seq_dummy           2660  0 
snd_hwdep               6212  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_seq_oss            24992  0 
snd_seq_midi            5728  0 
snd_rawmidi            18528  3 snd_ca0106,snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      6432  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                41456  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              17800  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          6380  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    45604  13 snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_ca0106,snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               6368  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7816  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_ca0106,snd_pcm
usbcore               118224  10 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,uvcvideo,usblp,usb_storage,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
adrian> dpkg -l | grep oss
ii  alsa-oss                             1.0.17-1                       ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
ii  audacity                             1.3.7-2                        A fast, cross-platform audio editor
ii  audacity-data                        1.3.7-2                        A fast, cross-platform audio editor (data)
ii  flac                                 1.2.1-1.2                      Free Lossless Audio Codec - command line too
rc  gnome-system-tools                   2.14.0-3                       Cross-platform configuration utilities for G
ii  libao2                               0.8.8-5                        Cross Platform Audio Output Library
ii  libflac++6                           1.2.1-1.2                      Free Lossless Audio Codec - C++ runtime libr
ii  libflac8                             1.2.1-1.2                      Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtime C librar
ii  libieee1284-3                        0.2.11-5                       cross-platform library for parallel port acc
ii  libwavpack1                          4.50.1-1                       an audio codec (lossy and lossless) - librar
ii  libwxgtk2.6-0                        2.6.3.2.2-3                    wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GT
ii  libwxgtk2.8-0                        2.8.7.1-1.1                    wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GT
ii  mp3gain                              1.4.6-8                        Lossless mp3 normalizer with statistical ana
ii  oss-compat                           0.0.4+nmu3                     OSS compatibility package
adrian> cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
cat: /etc/modprobe.d/sound: No such file or directory
adrian> cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf
alias snd-card-0 snd-ca0106
options snd-ca0106 index=0
adrian> cat /etc/modules
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

loop
adrian> ls -al /etc/modprobe.d/linux-sound*
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 2009-05-31 08:02 /etc/modprobe.d/linux-sound-base_noOSS.conf -> /lib/linux-sound-base/noOSS.modprobe.conf


Note: snd-ca0106 is a reference to the sound card that I removed,
which is presently not installed in the system.