Debian Bug report logs - #940062
Sound Blaster not working after upgrade to Debian 10

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Package: alsa-utils; Maintainer for alsa-utils is Debian ALSA Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for alsa-utils is src:alsa-utils (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: [email protected]

Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 21:27:01 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version alsa-utils/1.1.8-2

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Bug#940062; Package alsa-utils. (Wed, 11 Sep 2019 21:27:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Karsten <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Sound Blaster not working after upgrade to Debian 10
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 23:23:32 +0200
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.1.8-2
Severity: important


After upgrade to Debian 10 there is no sound any more with an CT5880 card.
In the KDE settings the sound is greyed out.

What have to be done?


Cheers
karsten


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  kmod              26-1
ii  libasound2        1.1.8-1
ii  libc6             2.28-10
ii  libfftw3-single3  3.3.8-2
ii  libncursesw6      6.1+20181013-2
ii  libsamplerate0    0.1.9-2
ii  libtinfo6         6.1+20181013-2
ii  lsb-base          10.2019051400
ii  whiptail          0.52.20-8

alsa-utils recommends no packages.

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



[alsa-info.txt.tV6RZW6kik (text/plain, attachment)]
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Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian ALSA Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#940062; Package alsa-utils. (Thu, 12 Sep 2019 08:57:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Elimar Riesebieter <[email protected]>:
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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Elimar Riesebieter <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#940062: Sound Blaster not working after upgrade to Debian 10
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:48:02 +0200
* Karsten <[email protected]> [2019-09-11 23:23 +0200]:

> Package: alsa-utils
> Version: 1.1.8-2
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> After upgrade to Debian 10 there is no sound any more with an CT5880 card.
> In the KDE settings the sound is greyed out.
> 
> What have to be done?

Please send the output of

$ aplay -l
$ lsmod | grep snd
$ dpkg -l | egrep "(libasou|alsa)"
$ dpkg -l | grep pulse
$ ls -al $HOME/.asoundrc
$ aplay -L

Elimar
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Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian ALSA Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#940062; Package alsa-utils. (Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:21:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to [email protected]:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian ALSA Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:21:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #15 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Karsten <[email protected]>
To: Elimar Riesebieter <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#940062: Sound Blaster not working after upgrade to Debian 10
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:57:42 +0200
Am 12.09.19 um 10:48 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter:
> Please send the output of
> $ aplay -l
> $ lsmod | grep snd
> $ dpkg -l | egrep "(libasou|alsa)"
> $ dpkg -l | grep pulse
> $ ls -al $HOME/.asoundrc
> $ aplay -L
>
> Elimar

Have you checked https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=940062;filename=alsa-info.txt.tV6RZW6kik;msg=5
that is attached to the bug report?

Cheers
karsten



Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian ALSA Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#940062; Package alsa-utils. (Sun, 20 Oct 2019 09:21:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to [email protected]:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian ALSA Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Sun, 20 Oct 2019 09:21:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #20 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Karsten <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Back to the roots?
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 10:56:48 +0200
Hello Debian maintainer,

i don't want to criticize you, but there is no progress in this and other bugs like this any more.
The problem is that i am still working with Debian 8 (Jessie) on my desktop, because there are fundamental problems in
Debian 9 & 10 desktop systems that will prevent to use ist, like a missing sound.

It's not a problem to use newer versions of Debian in server systems, because there is no need of a desktop.
But when you want to have Multimedia and other features like working with 2 screens then only Debian 8 is working with
all features.
I think this is not your fault - is it possible that newer Versions after Debian 8 (Jessie) are not as stable as the
years before any more?
It's like a step back to the roots in the history, where video and sound problems are a nightmare after each upgrade of
a system.

When you agree, what can be done?

Best regards
karsten



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