Re: no sound with alsa

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

On 2007-12-05 11:20:19 -0600, Joe Corneli wrote:
> I'm afraid I celebrated too soon.  While it is true that
> running the udev commands you indicated and reinstalling
> alsa-base worked as long as I kept my computer on, when
> I turned it off, somewhere it must have changed configuration
> files -- because when I restarted the computer, sound was
> not working again, and it gave me this error:
> 
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
> snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib conf.c:3968:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2143:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> === Could not load default driver and no driver specified in config
> file. Exiting.

I have exactly the same problem. See:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408746#36

I have removed /etc/modprobe.d/sound (the buggy file generated
by alsaconf) as suggested in another message and rebooted, but
no change.

Any news about these problems?

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