Bug#483664: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: sound only works when one virtual X console in use

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 02:17:51PM +0300, Shai Berger wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686
> Version: 2.6.25-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Yesterday I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.24  to 2.6.25 (I was waiting
> for the nVidia kernel source fix). Since then, sound stops working
> as soon as a second user logs in.
> 
> All users use virtual consoles -- the machine is a desktop. The problem
> arises when there are two graphical users (i.e. X servers on vt7 and vt8).
> When the problem starts, there is no sound on either session.
> 
> Sound did work when there was an X session on vt7 and a text session
> on vt1.
> 
> When I went back to 2.6.24, I had to run alsaconf fixed sound. Then
> I came back again to 2.6.25, only to have the problem repeat. Running
> alsaconf yet again seems to have fixed it.

so it is fixed on your box?

hmm the bug report lacks info about an eventual kernel failure.
anything in dmesg around that time.
 
> ** Tainted: P (1)

right try without it, sorry but with nvidia blob tainting
the kernel is no longer supported.

-- 
maks