alsa sound problem
 

I installed alsa and the sound was working fine until I rebooted, and then the sound stopped working and my soundcard was not showing up under dmesg, so I figured I'd uninstall alsa. Also, before I uninstalled alsa, it was not showing up under dmesg, either. After removing alsa, I restarted my system and the sound continued to not function. In addition to this troubling fact, the volume control applet shows the sound as being muted and when I attempt to adjust it, it automatically sets back to 0 sound level. When I launch the mixer, I get the error, "Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found."


I have now installed alsa-base again, as well as alsa-utils.

When I try to start the alsa init script:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa start
/etc/init.d/alsa: Warning: The 'start' method is deprecated and will be removed.
/etc/init.d/alsa: Warning: Use the alsa-utils initscript instead.
Setting up ALSA...done (none loaded).

So I start alsa-utils:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start
Setting up ALSA...done (none loaded).


Anyone with any ideas as to what's going on?

Thanks
Michael

It looks like your system doesn't have the driver for your card. What kind of card is it?

0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 5643
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1200 [size=256]
I/O ports at 1300 [size=64]

Under Subsystem it says Unknown device. Is this something I should worry about?

I also installed alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-386, which may have had something to do with the problems I've been experiencing. It has since been uninstalled though. I wasn't having any of these problems before I uninstalled alsa.

Try this command as root:

And see if sound works then

HTH

I have resolved this issue, thanks to this Have to run alsaconf after every boot. It turns out I had to run alsaconf. Yep, it works fine now. After, I ran alsaconf, it opened up the alsamixer, as well as all other alsa-utils, I'm assuming.

How did you know my soundcard's module name was snd-intel8x0?

I appreciate your help, FTJ.

I could tell by the lspci output you gave. I have a similar setup, and I recognized it. Anyway, glad you solved it. ;)

Ah, it all makes sense now.