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} Setting default volumes... amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device =============================================================================== Now ALSA is ready to use. For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer. Have a lot of fun! $lspci -v 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff00 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17 I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256] I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64] Memory at c0000c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Memory at c0000800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: <access denied> Even after doing alsconf, no sound modules are loaded. I checked with $ lsmod | grep snd and it does not give any results. When I play a file with mplayer, I get the following. Audio file file format detected. ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 687 bits! AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 56.0 kbit/7.94% (ratio: 7000->88200) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:769:(parse_card) cannot find card '' [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such device Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. Audio: no sound Video: no video Exiting... (End of file) $ dpkg -l \*alsa\* | grep ^ii ii alsa-base 1.0.14-1 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-oss 1.0.14-1 ALSA wrapper for OSS applications ii alsa-tools 1.0.14-1 Console based ALSA utilities for specific ha ii alsa-tools-gui 1.0.14-1 GUI based ALSA utilities for specific hardwa ii alsa-utils 1.0.14-1 ALSA utilities ii alsamixergui 0.9.0rc2-1-9 graphical soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.13-2 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.11-9 Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and ALSA $ uname -a Linux maplehilli4 2.6.22-1-686 #1 SMP Sun Jul 29 14:37:42 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Is there any way to overcome this problem? thanks raju ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Free pop3 email with a spam filter. http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]