Hi,
I'm having troubles with the sound in alsa on my msi laptop in debian lenny.
Alsa seems to have forgotten what sound card there is: when I click the icon I use to control the sound by (volume applet) I get the following message: No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.
When I run aplay -l
Code:
steven@msi-steven:~$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:207: no soundcards found...
when I run lspci -k I can find the sound device:
Code:
00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0ac0 (rev b1)
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
I really wouldn't know how to fix this so I googled and I found some solutions for the problem but none of the worked so far.
I tried the following for example:
Code:
steven@msi-steven:~$ sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel
FATAL: Error inserting snd_hda_intel (/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
FATAL: Error running install command for snd_hda_intel
Anyone have an idea how to fix this?
there are probably 2 possible causes for this failure. I installed kdenlive of which the dependencies were conflicting with vlc, this was no problem because I just deinstalled vlc, now I reinstalled it and I can only play divx movies with vlc (instead of totem) and the sound stopped working. The other cause might be an update of at least the kernel headers... I still do not completely understand their purpose but I know the kernel is important...
oh and also:
Code:
steven@msi-steven:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---
this might sum up the problem
