sound - no sound

[settimio di cori <mino59@mindspring.com>]

Hi,

sound on my system worked fine until a recent upgrade to the latest kde
packages. I'm running debian unstable. Sound is through a via686a chip,
with sound support built into the kernel. No alsa or oss on system.

No sound!!!

When I load kmix there are little red lights under the CD and
microphone, but no lights under the master volume control or the pcm
volume control.

/dev/sndstat exists

dmesg reports finding the via686a

???? I can't figure out why something that used to work fine one day all
of a sudden stopped working.

Thanks,

Mino