Re: sound does not work with Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:42:49 -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> I am using unstable with all the packages uptodate. The user is in audio group. I did
> 
> $sudo alsaconf
> 
> Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded).
> Building card database...
> 
> 
> Running update-modules...
> 
> ************************************************************************
> *
> * The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
> *
> ************************************************************************
> 
> Loading driver...
> Usage: /etc/init.d/alsa {unload|reload|force-unload|force-reload|suspend|resume}

This is where things do wrong: Instead of directly reloading the sound
modules (as it did in earlier versions) the script now calls
/etc/init.d/alsa with an undefined action specification. It seems that
alsaconf is more or less depreciated, see for example the reactions to
bugs #430624 and #432678. 

> Setting default volumes...
> amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device

This is a consequence of the missing modules.

[...]

> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

[...]

> Even after doing alsconf, no sound modules are loaded. I checked with
> 
> $ lsmod | grep snd
> 
> and it does not give any results.

[...]

> Is there any way to overcome this problem?

Try to run:

udevtrigger -v --subsystem-match=sound

or modprobe the sound modules manually. 

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