Hi,

Currently running CrunchBang 10 "Staler", with the kernel at:


This is on an ASUS Eee 1011PX netbook. I mixed up some instruction around how to enable inbuilt microphone on stock kernel, and mistakenly installed alsa-driver-linuxant package, meant for stock kernel, while having already upgraded to liquorix.

While I understand that reinstalling everything might be straightforward solution, I am unfortunately having a low bandwidth data-capped connection available, so trying to see if I an do so damage control without doing a full reinstall.

I've already done:-

followed by manual removal of the alsa-driver-linuxant directory, since dpkg warned about not being able to remove it as it was not empty. As a result, I think I'm without alsa at all.

To fix that last mistake, I went ahead and reinstalled alsa, doing this step:


but that didn't seem to fix the problem. After rebooting, I still don't see any snd_* modules from "lsmod". I think it has something to do with manually edited module configuration s.a. blacklists etc. Is there a way to possibly set it up to defaults, like just after a clean install, where HW detection takes care of module selection.

Any help / pointers would be really useful.

TIA,
falcon

< Edited by falcon74 :: Jul 8, 11, 22:55 >
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My bad! I think I just imagined that I had rebooted, probably had not. On a reboot finally, I can see all the snd_* modules.

However, the actual problem of sound not working remains. Will make a separate post for that.

falcon
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That's an old kernel with old alsa drivers. You might want to try using the latest kernel available and see what happens.
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Thanks for taking time to respond. Will definitely try the latest kernel.
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