I'm running Debian, and I recently upgraded this machine to the 2.6.3 kernel and KDE 3.2. ALSA was working fine before the upgrade. Now it doesn't work at all; cat /proc/asound/cards produces "--- no soundcards ---". If I log in to a character-mode console (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2) I can play mp3s successfully with mpg123, so I think that the correct kernel modules are loaded. Audio CDs work as well.
I have run alsaconf repeatedly. It always says it succeeded. Tonight I tried editing it, changing "/etc/alsa/modutils/0.9" to "/etc/alsa/modutils/1.0" to match the file that's on my drive, but it didn't help. aadebug produces this: ALSA Audio Debug v0.0.7 - Mon Mar 15 20:50:27 PST 2004 http://alsa.opensrc.org/?aadebug Kernel ---------------------------------------------------- Linux lando 2.6.3-1-686 #2 Tue Feb 24 20:24:38 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Loaded Modules -------------------------------------------- snd_mixer_oss 20064 0 snd_intel8x0 34376 0 snd_ac97_codec 63492 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm 101316 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_timer 25956 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 12228 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart 7840 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi 24928 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 8072 1 snd_rawmidi snd 55428 8 snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device Modules Conf ---------------------------------------------- alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore options snd major=116 cards_limit=4 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/dsp* snd-pcm-oss alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-slot-0 snd-slot-0 Proc Asound ----------------------------------------------- Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.2c (Thu Feb 05 15:41:49 2004 UTC). Compiled on Feb 21 2004 for kernel 2.6.3-1-686. --- no soundcards --- 33: : timer cat: /proc/asound/hwdep: No such file or directory Dev Snd --------------------------------------------------- controlC0 hwC2D0 midiC0D4 midiC2D0 midiC3D4 pcmC0D4c pcmC1D2c pcmC2D0c pcmC2D6c pcmC3D4c controlC1 hwC2D1 midiC0D5 midiC2D1 midiC3D5 pcmC0D4p pcmC1D2p pcmC2D0p pcmC2D6p pcmC3D4p controlC2 hwC2D2 midiC0D6 midiC2D2 midiC3D6 pcmC0D5c pcmC1D3c pcmC2D1c pcmC2D7c pcmC3D5c controlC3 hwC2D3 midiC0D7 midiC2D3 midiC3D7 pcmC0D5p pcmC1D3p pcmC2D1p pcmC2D7p pcmC3D5p hwC0D0 hwC3D0 midiC1D0 midiC2D4 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D6c pcmC1D4c pcmC2D2c pcmC3D0c pcmC3D6c hwC0D1 hwC3D1 midiC1D1 midiC2D5 pcmC0D0p pcmC0D6p pcmC1D4p pcmC2D2p pcmC3D0p pcmC3D6p hwC0D2 hwC3D2 midiC1D2 midiC2D6 pcmC0D1c pcmC0D7c pcmC1D5c pcmC2D3c pcmC3D1c pcmC3D7c hwC0D3 hwC3D3 midiC1D3 midiC2D7 pcmC0D1p pcmC0D7p pcmC1D5p pcmC2D3p pcmC3D1p pcmC3D7p hwC1D0 midiC0D0 midiC1D4 midiC3D0 pcmC0D2c pcmC1D0c pcmC1D6c pcmC2D4c pcmC3D2c seq hwC1D1 midiC0D1 midiC1D5 midiC3D1 pcmC0D2p pcmC1D0p pcmC1D6p pcmC2D4p pcmC3D2p timer hwC1D2 midiC0D2 midiC1D6 midiC3D2 pcmC0D3c pcmC1D1c pcmC1D7c pcmC2D5c pcmC3D3c hwC1D3 midiC0D3 midiC1D7 midiC3D3 pcmC0D3p pcmC1D1p pcmC1D7p pcmC2D5p pcmC3D3p CPU ------------------------------------------------------- model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.20GHz cpu MHz : 2193.316 RAM ------------------------------------------------------- MemTotal: 1035168 kB SwapTotal: 2097136 kB Hardware -------------------------------------------------- 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 12) I am stumped, so any suggestions would be appreciated. Steve ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user