Bug#512934: installation-reports: no sound at all; worked in Etch, works with Knoppix

[Seb <seb@h-k.fr>]

Hi,


| >>> My only problem, but a very significant one, is that I have absolutely no
| >>> sound.
| >>> [...]
| >>> My sound card is a very common (and oldish) SoundBlaster PCI 128.
| >>> The correct kernel driver, snd_ens1371, is loaded (lsmod | grep snd).
| >>> Sound does not work either when I select (via ~/.asoundrc) the
| >>> motherboard's sound card.
|
| I've read another report (#516866) where rerunning alsaconf resolved the
| issue for the reporter.  It would be interesting to know whether that
| also helps you.

I had not tried running alsaconf by hand before.

alsaconf finds three cards:
hda-intel	nVidia Corporation MCP65 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
ens1371		Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
legacy		Probe legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips

I don't know whether the "legacy" line is normal.

At the end it "fails" with:
	amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
It doesn't actually say it failed, since right afterward I see "Now ALSA
is ready to use." 'amixer' is supposed to adjust the volume I think.

I tried googling on the error message but no success either.

Just to be on the safe side:

uid=1000(seb) gid=1000(seb)
groups=20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),111(fuse),114(scanner),1000(seb)

~>ls -l /dev/audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Feb 24 12:42 /dev/audio
~>ls -l /dev/dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Feb 24 12:42 /dev/dsp
~>id
uid=1000(seb) gid=1000(seb)
groups=20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),111(fuse),114(scanner),1000(seb)


Thanks for for help !


Best,
Sébastien.