Sound system stopped working

[Bradley Alexander <storm@tux.org>]

Having an issue with sound on my sid box. It used to work fine, but now, I get errors, and my sound card is not detected. I tried several approaches to get it to work, including the page at http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/sound.htm

It is a SBLive! Platinum running on an Athlon XP1800. lspci shows:

# lspci -vvv        
-snip-
01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs SBLive! Player 5.1
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Step
ping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort
- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (500ns min, 5000ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: I/O ports at a800 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot
-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

The modules look like:

$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_emu10k1_synth       5568  0 
snd_emux_synth         28800  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi         5056  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul       4928  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_dummy           2692  0 
snd_seq_oss            26688  0 
snd_seq_midi            5792  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      5632  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                40592  9 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_emu10k1            96512  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi            17440  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec         83364  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_bus            1856  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            34784  0 
snd_mixer_oss          13120  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                59528  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_device          5900  8 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer              16516  3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          6984  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            3264  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep               6276  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd                    39780  14 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep


When I run alsaconf, it goes through the config, but then says "amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device" alsactl store gives me "alsactl: save_state:1254: No soundcards found..."

Some apps (like tvtime and xine) have sound, while others like mplayer/mencoder do not.

What can I do to get sound fully working again?

Thanks,
--b