ALSA or ARTS strangeness

[Bradley Alexander <storm@tux.org>]

I dist-upgraded my sid box the other night, and now I am seeing several
strange things. For instance, my sound card, a SBLive, is not being
detected wrong


lspci shows that I have

01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
01:08.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 07)


However, kmix is reporting the sound card as a SigmaTel STAC9708,11

Running mplayer, for instance, it errored out on alsa-lib repeatedly:

alsa-init: using device default
alsa-lib: confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
alsa-lib: conf.c:3479:(_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:3479:(_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:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
returned error: No such device
alsa-lib: conf.c:3947:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
alsa-lib: pcm.c:2146:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
alsa-init: playback open error: No such device
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no sound

I checked the bugs on most of the packages, and most were a year or more
old.

What can I do to get things back to scratch?

Thanks,
--b