[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#514876: alsa-utils: wrong sound card detection and settings don't save

[Andrey Gusev]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.16-2
Severity: important

The system has wrong detection of my sound card. It doesn't work.  The result of lsmod:
andrey at power-debian:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
lp                     13612  0 
parport                41116  1 lp
ipv6                  298944  16 
cpufreq_stats           8756  0 
cpufreq_conservative    10696  0 
cpufreq_powersave       5376  0 
cpufreq_ondemand       11116  0 
cpufreq_userspace       6996  0 
ext2                   75016  1 
therm_windtunnel       12128  0 
sbp2                   23760  0 
scsi_mod              155364  1 sbp2
loop                   19564  0 
snd_aoa_i2sbus         23268  0 
snd_pcm                82408  1 snd_aoa_i2sbus
snd_page_alloc         12520  1 snd_pcm
snd_seq                61936  0 
snd_timer              26248  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device         11116  1 snd_seq
snd                    63160  5 snd_aoa_i2sbus,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore              10600  1 snd
snd_aoa_soundbus        9156  1 snd_aoa_i2sbus
uninorth_agp           12104  1 
agpgart                38208  1 uninorth_agp
evdev                  14080  3 
ext3                  136488  2 
jbd                    54644  1 ext3
mbcache                11940  2 ext2,ext3
sha256_generic         13472  0 
aes_generic            32264  2 
cbc                     7232  1 
dm_crypt               17444  1 
crypto_blkcipher       21540  3 cbc,dm_crypt
dm_mirror              21600  0 
dm_log                 14148  1 dm_mirror
dm_snapshot            21636  0 
dm_mod                 61908  13 dm_crypt,dm_mirror,dm_log,dm_snapshot
ide_cd_mod             36132  0 
cdrom                  40312  1 ide_cd_mod
ide_disk               16704  3 
sungem                 33796  0 
sungem_phy             14944  1 sungem
ohci1394               36368  0 
ieee1394               93520  2 sbp2,ohci1394
usbhid                 48772  0 
hid                    45548  1 usbhid
ff_memless              8744  1 usbhid
i2c_powermac            7648  0 

 cat /proc/asound/cards:
--- no soundcards ---

I try to make "dpkg-reconfigure alsa-utils", but is doesn't have affect.
But if I do "alsaconf":
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-aoa-i2sbus snd-pcm snd-page-alloc snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device snd-aoa-soundbus.
Building card database...

I select snd-powermac

Loading driver...
Setting default volumes...

Soundcard is work. make "lsmod":
andrey at power-debian:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_powermac           48576  0 
snd_pcm                82408  1 snd_powermac
snd_seq                61936  0 
snd_timer              26248  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device         11116  1 snd_seq
snd                    63160  5 snd_powermac,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore              10600  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         12520  1 snd_pcm
lp                     13612  0 
parport                41116  1 lp
ipv6                  298944  16 
cpufreq_stats           8756  0 
cpufreq_conservative    10696  0 
cpufreq_powersave       5376  0 
cpufreq_ondemand       11116  0 
cpufreq_userspace       6996  0 
ext2                   75016  1 
therm_windtunnel       12128  0 
sbp2                   23760  0 
scsi_mod              155364  1 sbp2
loop                   19564  0 
uninorth_agp           12104  1 
agpgart                38208  1 uninorth_agp
evdev                  14080  3 
ext3                  136488  2 
jbd                    54644  1 ext3
mbcache                11940  2 ext2,ext3
sha256_generic         13472  0 
aes_generic            32264  2 
cbc                     7232  1 
dm_crypt               17444  1 
crypto_blkcipher       21540  3 cbc,dm_crypt
dm_mirror              21600  0 
dm_log                 14148  1 dm_mirror
dm_snapshot            21636  0 
dm_mod                 61908  13 dm_crypt,dm_mirror,dm_log,dm_snapshot
ide_cd_mod             36132  0 
cdrom                  40312  1 ide_cd_mod
ide_disk               16704  3 
sungem                 33796  0 
sungem_phy             14944  1 sungem
ohci1394               36368  0 
ieee1394               93520  2 sbp2,ohci1394
usbhid                 48772  0 
hid                    45548  1 usbhid
ff_memless              8744  1 usbhid
i2c_powermac            7648  0 

andrey at power-debian:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards 
 0 [Snapper        ]: PMac Snapper - PowerMac Snapper
                      PowerMac Snapper (Dev 22) Sub-frame 0

May be it is udev related, so version of udev:
andrey at power-debian:~$ dpkg-query --show udev
udev	0.125-7

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-powerpc-smp (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.16-2       ALSA library
ii  libc6                     2.7-18         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base          1.0.17.dfsg-4  base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-20         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools         3.4-1          tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  pciutils                  1:3.0.0-6      Linux PCI Utilities
ii  python                    2.5.2-3        An interactive high-level object-o
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-11.3    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base                  1.0.17.dfsg-4 ALSA driver configuration files

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

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