On Fri,26.Feb.10, 06:16:35, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:55:27 -0500 (EST), Cecil Knutson wrote: > > aptitude was updated; the alsa-firmware-loaders installed; dpkg > > reconfigured alsa base and alsa utils; no PCM in alsamixer. > > ... > > What would you suggest doing now? > > I'm afraid I'm stumped, Cecil. I've never seen this before. > Every sound chip I've ever used had a PCM device in alsamixer. > What happens when you try to play a .wav file using the aplay > command? Do you get any error messages? > > At this point, the only thing I can suggest is to install Squeeze > instead of Lenny and hope that the problem is fixed with newer > drivers. Lenny is getting a bit long in the tooth. It was > frozen in August of 2008. But then again, if your sound card > is significantly older than that ... > > Maybe someone else on the list has some more ideas. I've > run out. Sorry I couldn't help you. I would suggest installing the backports kernel before upgrading to squeeze. See http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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