got alsa to play again, with alsaconf. i was pretty sure alsaconf wasn't in debian anymore, but seems i was wrong :)
however, still need to fix that apt. so if anyone would be so kind to send me the /sbin/ldconfig executable, that would be great. thanks isjtar wrote: > hello, > > slightly ot I guess since I'm only running lenny with some of the P:D > reps. but i'm getting desperate so here goes :( > > anyway, I was happily supercolliding away till I reboot into my OSX > external drive for a skype session. Came back and no alsa anymore. > jack can't connect: > > loading driver .. > > apparent rate = 44100 > > creating alsa driver ... > hw:0|hw:0|512|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|16bit > > control device hw:0 > > control open "hw:0" (No such file or directory) > > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1433:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card > > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1433:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card > > ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back > to capture-only mode > > cannot load driver module alsa > > > Totem etc don't work either. > alsamixer gives me: > >> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file >> or directory > > > before anybody gives me a solution based on apt, my apt is broken and > of course I'd like to fix it. > upgrading and downgrading again of libc6 removed ldconfig which > happens to be essential for apt. > if i apt-get install something i get this: > >> dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. >> dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. >> NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin >> and /sbin. >> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) > > the problem seems very severe, i found one similar thread without > solution here: > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/6cf45b944aa89940/fa4d13463f6601e0?lnk=raot > so ... if anybody could send me a lenny /sbin/ldconfig that might > actually help me out quite a lot. (i think?) > > to make things worse still, I'm running this on an mbp, which makes > reinstallation a pain, otherwise i would've done so by now. > > musicians without sound are unhappy and debian users without apt quite > the same. > so please help me :) > > thanks > > isjtar > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
