[ALSA - driver 0001585]: No sound from Soundblaster Live USB since updating kernel drivers to 1.0.10.rc3

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2005-12-30T19:34:19Z

Last Modified: 12-30-2005 20:34 CET
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Summary: No sound from Soundblaster Live USB since updating
kernel drivers to 1.0.10.rc3
Description:
Every kernel since 2.6.14 (I have tried rc1, mm1, mm2, and rc2) has left
my external USB sound card broken. It appears to be something in the
alsa-git-2005-11-07.patch that was posted to LKML on 11/07/05:

subject: [ALSA UPDATE] 1.0.10rc3
message-id:
<Pine.LNX.4.61.0511071457480.8818@tm8103.perex-int.cz>

Applying this alsa update to 2.6.14 also renders the card silent. The
card
is visible in /proc/asound/cards, alsamixer sees it and I can adjust the
volume, but I get no sound from xmms, mplayer, etc. I tried enabling alsa
debug and verbose printk but I was unable to find any additional messages
from dmesg or in any log files. The card is a Creative Labs SoundBlaster
Live 24-bit external. I'm using the SPDIF output to run sound through a
home theater system. I'm running debian unstable on a Toshiba laptop.

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sailfrog - 12-30-05 20:31
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rlrevell,
Thanks for the feedback. I will spend some time on it this weekend and
see if I can narrow down the location of the problem. Sorry for the
negative remarks ( having a bad day). I guess after more than a month with
the only comment being "probably already fixed" I felt as though nobody
either believed this was real or cared.

Thanks again,
Jason

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rlrevell - 12-30-05 20:34
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Yeah there are a LOT of bugs in the tracker and we don't have the manpower
to handle them all promptly sometimes.

FYI you should have given this BLOCK severity rather than MAJOR as you
have no sound at all and it's a definite regression.