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Hello, I'm having loads of problems getting my soundcard to work. I'm using Debian testing (Lenny), but I had to grab the kernel from unstable because the nvidia proprietary drivers have been removed from the testing distribution.
But when I tried to run alsaconf the way I always do, I got:
Code:
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*
* The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
*
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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
Good good, I ran into this problem a few weeks ago. Installing libesd-alsa0 was one of the steps. To get past the
update-modules error, I installed an older version temporarily (If you actually look at the script, it is pretty much useless).
Try running alsaconf then alsamixer again. If that doesn't work, then I probably forgot something I did... I will try to remember.
alsaconf still seems to give me the same error. I notice that after I run it, all the 'snd' modules are gone from lsmod.
Code:
************************************************************************
*
* 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
Then when I run alsamixer, I get:
Code:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
I downgraded to the package you linked to, and tried alsaconf and alsamixer again, but got exactly the same results.
I am fairly sure I installed libesd-alsa0, downgraded module-init-tools, then ran alsaconf (btw the first thing alsaconf does
is unload all snd modules so that's normal behaviour). I might have rebooted at this point... not sure. Then I ran alsamixer,
and then "alsactl store", and sound worked fine...
If you are still getting
The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
then the downgrade did not work. Try again. "dpkg -i package"
You had mentioned that it uses an older version of some script, which is useless in the newer version?
Where is the location of this script? Then I could make sure that the correct version is being used.
[EDIT]I wonder if our differences are caused by my newer kernel version? I had to get the latest kernel from sid to install the nvidia graphics drivers, which are broken in testing. (see first post)
Code:
uname -a
Linux jackfish 2.6.22-1-686 #1 SMP Sun Jul 29 14:37:42 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
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