[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#599656: alsa-base: no sound / few devices in mixer with ATI RS780 sound

[Gary Dale]

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

Once again I've lost sound on my system. The mixer (kmix?) shows just two
playback devices - RS780 Azalia controller Digital Stereo (HDMI) and 
Internal Audio Analog Stereo. The latter also is the name of the only
Capture Device. Playback Streams and Capture Streams are both empty.

I had a working sound system until a recent full-upgrade. Now my PC is
silent. Frankly, it's frustrating because every time this gets fixed, it 
breaks again a while later.




-- 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     1.0.23-2       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 ---
 0 [HDMI           ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
                      HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfdafc000 irq 19
 2 [SB             ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
                      HDA ATI SB at 0xfe024000 irq 16
--- End /proc/asound/cards ---
--- Begin /dev/snd/ listing ---
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       80 Oct  8 00:09 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 13 Oct  8 00:09 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Oct  8 00:09 controlC2
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 12 Oct  8 00:09 hwC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  9 Oct  8 00:09 hwC2D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 11 Oct  9 17:19 pcmC0D3p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  8 Oct  8 00:10 pcmC2D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  7 Oct  9 17:19 pcmC2D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  6 Oct  8 00:10 pcmC2D1c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  5 Oct  8 00:10 pcmC2D1p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  4 Oct  8 00:09 pcmC2D2c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  3 Oct  8 00:09 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  2 Oct  8 00:09 timer
--- End /dev/snd/ listing ---

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (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          3.12-1        tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                       160-1         /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:
pn  alsa-oss                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  apmd                          <none>     (no description available)
ii  oss-compat                    0.0.4+nmu3 OSS compatibility package

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf changed:
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-0
install sound-slot-1 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-1
install sound-slot-2 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-2
install sound-slot-3 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-3
install sound-slot-4 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-4
install sound-slot-5 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-5
install sound-slot-6 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-6
install sound-slot-7 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-7
install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-ioctl32 ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq ; }
install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-emu10k1-synth ; : ; }
options bt87x index=-2
options cx88_alsa index=-2
options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
options snd-intel8x0m index=-2
options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
options snd-hda-intel index=2
options snd-pcsp index=-2
options snd-usb-audio index=-2


-- no debconf information