Newer alsa packages can break sound

[LRC]

Because I am a non tech person it took me a while to figure out what was going on. A while ago I lost my sound, I finally had a free day to work on it. The end result was that I have found out the newer and newest alsa packages are missing files some critical files. I do know for sure alsautils is missing the alsa conf folder/files, but I suspect others might also be missing. In my case because the sound configuration somehow got lost and could not be fixed automatically because the alsaconf that I had was not compatible with the rest of the alsa files, my sound broke. It is now working fine since I reinstalled using source. This is just to note that there can be sound problems until the debian packages get fixed.

[drb]

Have you logged the 'bug'?

[aus9]

hi

and in the mean time, some of us may know a few things about sound.

I no longer maintain the wiki pages but here is a start

www.sidux.com/index.php?module=Wikula&lang=en&tag=SoundMaster

quite a few things can be solved with some simple checks or tweaks?

2) if you used alsa-project.org packages let us know how you built them

3) and post in a code box your make and model and is it onboard or pci or isa card etc....and the output of lsmod pls

its possible you did not enable your soundcard in the build?

its possible sound is muted or volume too low?

good luck

[LRC]

As far as bug is concerned I'm still working on how linux compunications work and therefore no I did not report, but I will. As far as the sound goes I believe it was simply missing a working alsaconf, because once I installed the current tar files from alsa everything worked fine without doing anything else, other then rebooting.