[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#587207: alsa-base: no audio with usb audio after upgrade(s?)

[TheGZeus]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-1
Severity: important

I'm not sure how many upgrades I've gone through, as I'd had a 241-day up-time.

I've disabled the internal soundcard, and previously this setup Just Worked. I've not configured anything manually.

I've tried --reinstall on all the alsa packages, multiple reboots, the old *trunk version of the kernel, using experimental's kernel (only a reboot and quick test with mplayer), and tried manually modprobe snd-usb-audio and /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart (and stop/start) each time.

Not sure what else to try.

-- Package-specific info:
--- Begin additional package status ---
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                                   Version                                                Description
+++-======================================================-======================================================-============================================================================================================================
ii  libasound2                                             1.0.23-1                                               shared library for ALSA applications
--- End additional package status ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/version ---
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
--- End /proc/asound/version ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/cards ---
 1 [External       ]: USB-Audio - SB Live! 24-bit External
                      Creative Technology SB Live! 24-bit External at usb-0000:00:1a.1-1, full speed
--- End /proc/asound/cards ---
--- Begin /dev/snd/ listing ---
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      60 Jun 26 01:25 by-id
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      60 Jun 26 01:25 by-path
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 7 Jun 26 01:25 controlC1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 4 Jun 26 01:25 hwC1D0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 6 Jun 26 01:25 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 5 Jun 26 01:25 pcmC1D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 3 Jun 26 01:25 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 2 Jun 26 01:25 timer
--- End /dev/snd/ listing ---

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  linux-sound-base           1.0.23+dfsg-1 base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsof                       4.81.dfsg.1-1 List open files
ii  module-init-tools          3.12~pre2-3   tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                       157-1         /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages alsa-base recommends:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.23-2   Utilities for configuring and usin

Versions of packages alsa-base suggests:
ii  alsa-oss                      1.0.17-4   ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
pn  apmd                          <none>     (no description available)
ii  oss-compat                    0.0.4+nmu3 OSS compatibility package

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.1-3   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

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