Re: Problem configuring sound card with alsa on debian

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

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 23:52:25 +0530, Divick Kishore wrote:
> Hi,
>     I am trying to unable to configure my sound card on debian. The sound
> system that I have is Terratec SiXPack 5.1+. There is no sound on my system
> and on running alsamixer I see the following ouput:
> 
> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
> 
> Doing lspci | grep audio says:
> 
> 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30
> [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
> 
> If I run alsaconf, the driver for the card is not listed (as per the
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-cs46xx, it should
> be cs46xx). 

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> I am not sure what is it that I am doing wrong.

You are not doing anything wrong; the driver was removed from the Debian
kernels. Here are the relevant snippets from the changelog:

linux-2.6 (2.6.23-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove binary only firmwares for:
    - Cirrus Logic (Sound Fusion) CS4280/CS461x/CS462x/CS463x

  * Disable now broken drivers:
    - Cirrus Logic (Sound Fusion) CS4280/CS461x/CS462x/CS463x

Fri, 30 Nov 2007

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