Bug#464191: Sound broken with linux-image-2.6.24-1-686

[Matěj Laitl <strohel@gmail.com>]

Hi,

while I'm not a Debian user, I think I am able to point you at the potentional 
root of this problem. I saw following line your dmesg:
Maestro3: probe of 0000:00:0d.0 failed with error -2

The cause is probably the missing firmware for your card. The firmware can be 
either embedded into the kernel or distributed alone, depending on the 
CONFIG_SND_MAESTRO3_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL kernel config option. See following 
lines from kernel's sound/pci/maestro3.c:
61 #ifndef CONFIG_SND_MAESTRO3_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
62 MODULE_FIRMWARE("ess/maestro3_assp_kernel.fw");
63 MODULE_FIRMWARE("ess/maestro3_assp_minisrc.fw");
64 #endif

So in order for this card to work, you need either package with firmware 
(alsa-firmware usually) or CONFIG_SND_MAESTRO3_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL option 
enabled. I guess Debian switched this option from yes to no between kernel 
versions.

Regards,
	Matěj Laitl