[LAU] No ALSA after installing stock Debian kernel

[David Baron]

On Monday 06 September 2010 23:17:10 Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> On Monday, September 06, 2010 02:42:17 pm David Baron wrote:
> > No cards, no /proc/asound, nada
> > 
> > Here is a part of the problem:
> > $ dmesg | grep -i snd
> > [    5.501289] snd: Unknown parameter `device_mode'
> > [    5.521068] snd: Unknown parameter `device_mode'
> > [    5.548879] snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_info_register
> > [    5.549233] snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_info_create_module_entry
> > [    5.549514] snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_info_free_entry
> 
> [snip]
> 
> It says there's a 'device_mode' parameter that is trying to be set, but it
> is invalid.  According to [1], [2], [3], and [4] there's something in
> /etc/modprobe.d/* that's trying to set it.  It has been fixed in most
> distros.
> 
> You'll need to find what's trying to load alsa with the 'device_mode'
> parameter and fix it.
> 
> hth,
> gabriel
> 
> [1]
> http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration
> .txt [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/106400
> [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+bug/43738
> [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400612

Yup. /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf. Did it.

Thanks.