I thought the official word was that alsaconf was no longer intended to be part of the distribution and you really shouldn't be using it at all:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509650 On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m9...@aliceadsl.fr> wrote: > On Thursday 09 April 2009 22:30, Dancing Fingers wrote: >> On Apr 8, 12:00 pm, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m9...@aliceadsl.fr> wrote: >> >> Many thanks Nigel for your eply. >> >> > On Wednesday 08 April 2009 14:56, Dancing Fingers wrote: >> > > Hi guys, >> > > I'm also having an ALSA problem. I put a SoundBlaster card in my >> > > Lenny box. If I run alsaconf every time I boot and everything works >> > > fine. What I don't understand is why the system resets the conf >> > > files every time it boots? >> > > Thanks. >> > > Chris >> > >> > Hi Chris. >> > >> > I assume there is an onboard soundcard on the machine as well. What may >> > be happening when you boot up is that both soundcards are being detected, >> > and the onboard soundcard is being set as card0, and the audigy one as >> > card1. Most audio apps use card0 as default, so you may find that >> > plugging the speakers into the onboard soundcard (if there is one) >> > produces sound. >> > >> > To check this out, reboot, then run the following command before running >> > alsaconf, and post the results. >> > >> > cat /proc/asound/cards >> >> This is what I get: >> 0 [V8235 ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8235 >> VIA 8235 with CMI9761A+ at 0xd800, irq 22 >> >> > Then run alsaconf, and set up the audigy card, then run the command above >> > again, and post the results. >> > >> > If what I say above is the case, and you want the audigy soundblaster to >> > be set as card0 (the default), you can add a couple of lines to the >> > bottom of: to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base >> > >> > options snd-emu10k1 index=0 >> > options snd-???? index=1 >> >> What I tried was: >> >> options snd-emu10k1 index=0 >> options snd-V8235 index=1 > > Here you want the following options lines. > > options snd-emu10k1 index=0 > options snd-via82xx index=1 > > Change your current options lines in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base to those above, > then reboot, and post the output of, cat /proc/asound/cards. > > The sounds may now be working, but you may have to access alsamixer on the CLI > (KDE's Konsole, or Gnomes Terminal), to see if some controls are muted, and > unmute them. The M key does the mute/unmute. On my Audigy2 soundblaster card, > controls, "Master", "PCM", "Front", need their sliders pushed up to get sound > output. Check also the "Audigy A" control. Mine needs to be muted to get > analog output, and sounds. That is on Lenny. > > Let's get the sounds working, eh!! > > Nigel. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org