Re: lost sound after dist-upgrade
Kushal Kumaran <kushal <at> it.iitb.ac.in> writes:
> Check your xmms preferences. Is xmms using OSS or alsa output? OSS
> is deprecated.
OK. I changed the xmms output plugin from oss to alsa. Now I don't
get an error message, but I also get no sound.
>> I notice that I don't seem to have any alsa packages installed. None were
>> removed during the upgrade.
>
> I don't understand. If they weren't removed during upgrade and you
> don't have them now, then you didn't have them installed before.
> alsa-base and alsa-utils should be the packages you want. Installing
> alsa-utils gets you alsaconf and alsamixer.
Yes, this is where I am confused. I read that Debian with a 2.6
kernel loads alsa modules by default? I was surprised that I
didn't have any alsa packages installed since I had sound before
switching from the 2.6.8 kernel to the 2.6.18 kernel. So, I was
hesitant to install them, fearing I might make things worse.
Fortunately, after installing alsa-base (which required
linux-sound-base lsof) and alsa-utils, I have sound again.
I notice that the module list is almost the same. Now snd_intel8x0
and snd_ac97_codec are not loaded. Maybe that was part of the problem.
Also, /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer are now present, for whatever that is worth.
Thanks.
Gary Parker
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