Hi I recently upgraded my sid system.
Sound had been working nicely. Then we were upgraded to the 3.0.0-1-amd64 kernel and for some reason I had no sound. When i ran lsmod i got mlaks@Rashi:~$ lsmod |grep snd snd_via82xx 23098 2 snd_via82xx_modem 17693 0 gameport 13649 1 snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec 106837 2 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem snd_pcm_oss 41257 0 snd_mixer_oss 17969 1 snd_pcm_oss ac97_bus 12510 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 68104 4 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_mpu401_uart 13507 1 snd_via82xx snd_seq_midi 12848 0 snd_rawmidi 23297 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event 13316 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq 45208 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 22581 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 13137 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq snd 52823 15 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 13152 1 snd snd_page_alloc 13043 3 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_pcm now if i try this mlaks@Rashi:~$ lsmod |grep alsa mlaks@Rashi:~$ so looks like no alsa. so i tried to compile alsa using m-a and compilation failed for some reason (something about missing versions.h file in the sound directory even though i have the kernel headers set up well) I tried running speaker-test and I still could not hear anything I ran gamix and everying seems to be ok in settings. Still no sound out of speakers. Speakers work fine with an external mp3 player Just no sound heard. In fact now that I think about it, I had lost sound even before I did the apt-get update/ upgrade, infact it happened while I was playing some video on youtube. In fact I did the sid upgrade to try to restore sound. Anyway, I then did something strange. I was trying to listen to mp3 and i did something strange, instead of opening it with rhythmbox, which did not work, i tried opening it with okular (stupidly), accidentally. then a screen opened up and said KDE detected that one or more internal sound devices were removed. Do you want KDE to permanently forget about these devices? This is the list of devices KDE thinks can be removed: Capture: VIA 8237 with ALC850 (VIA 8237) Capture: VIA 8237 with ALC850 (VIA 8237) #1 Output: VIA 8237 with ALC850 (VIA 8237) Output: VIA 8237 with ALC850 (VIA 8237) #1 do no ask again for these devices yes no manage devices So I clicked manage devices and then i can hear sound again in all applications. 1. what is going on? 2. what is now substituted for alsa? 3. I always had to use alsa to get sound working in my system. mlaks@Rashi:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge 00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge 00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge 00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge 00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge 00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South] 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13) 00:0c.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20518/PDC40518 (SATAII 150 TX4) (rev 02) 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) 00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 GT] (rev a2) mlaks@Rashi:~$ thanks Mitchell Laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110919032854.ga7...@earthlink.net
