Re: No Sound after Experiment with KDE4

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kent West wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> > Kent West wrote:
> > > <sound used to work; now it doesn't>
> >
> > Okay, so as no one has provided any hints as to where to go, the only 
> > thing left is to try alsaconf.
> >
> > But from what I've been able to ascertain, alsaconf is considered 
> > poorly-written and poorly-maintained by the Debian developers, and 
> > hence it has been dropped from the Debian distribution (at least in 
> > Sid).
> >
> > Can anyone verify that alsaconf has been deprecated in Debian? If 
> > not, in which package will I find it?
> I did find alsactl:
>
> > westk@canuhold:~$ sudo alsactl init
> > Unknown hardware: "ICH4" "Analog Devices AD1981A" "AC97a:41445372" "" ""
> > Hardware is initialized using a guess method
>
> Ah, so now I'm getting an "Unknown hardware" message.
>
> Any clues?

I booted into the DebianLiveCD (i386/KDE), and the sound worked.

I then booted into my regular Debian setup, and the sound did not work.

I then booted back into the LiveCD (without powering off), and the sound 
did not work.

I then powered off, and then booted into the LiveCD, and the sound worked.

I then booted into my regular Debian setup, and the sound did not work.

Apparently my regular Debian setup is flipping a bit on the sound 
circuitry itself that requires a power-off to fix. At least, that's the 
way it seems to me. But I have no clue as to how to track this down further.


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