Package: alsa-base Subject: alsa-base: fails to detect legacy cards, must run alsaconf Version: 1.0.8-7 Severity: important
This may not be your problem, but I'll report it in case it is...
The ALSA is unable to detect ISA legacy cards on startup. I use a CS4236B (Crystal Sound) chipset, but this problem also occurs with other legacy chipsets I've tested as well (the kernel was set up with the necessary modules). This has occured with other custom build versions (2.6.10) of the kernel I have used, so you may be including something in the Debian kernels that is not present in the kernel.org version.
Running alsaconf once the system is running will detect the card properly.
List of relevant modules in my kernel version: # Sound CONFIG_SOUND=y
# Advanced Linux Sound Architecture CONFIG_SND=y CONFIG_SND_TIMER=y CONFIG_SND_PCM=y CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=y CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=y CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY=y CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=m
# Generic devices CONFIG_SND_MPU401_UART=m CONFIG_SND_OPL3_LIB=y CONFIG_SND_VIRMIDI=m CONFIG_SND_MPU401=m
# ISA devices CONFIG_SND_CS4231=m CONFIG_SND_CS4232=m CONFIG_SND_CS4236=m CONFIG_SND_OPL3SA2=m
# PCI devices CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=y CONFIG_SND_CS46XX=y CONFIG_SND_CS4281=y
-- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.4-emperorbma Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages alsa-base depends on: ii alsa-utils 1.0.8-4 ALSA utilities ii debconf 1.4.46 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.13.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii lsof 4.74.dfsg.2-1 List open files. ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii modutils 2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities
-- debconf information: * alsa-base/alsactl_store_on_shutdown: always autosave
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