

Why can it not find soundcard '0' ? Everywhere I look it identifies soundcard '0' with ATI IXP AC97 for example: aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: IXP, device 0: ATI IXP AC97 (?) Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: Modem, device 0: ATI IXP MC97 Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 (?) OK, I gotta go do something else for awhile.Copperhead Road Karaoke MIDI File in the style of Steve Earle Copperhead Road is a song recorded and released by Steve Earle. alsactl: save_state:1517: Cannot find soundcard '0.'. Restart – sound! That's once! Ok so now I tried alsactl store 0, result: alsactl store 0. I “know” this is the wrong setting for my emachine so I changed it to Analog Output / No Amplifier. Checking Sound Preferences I found output set to Analog Output / Amplifier. I checked alsamixer and muted external and pcm because I didn't know what pcm was! The little sound aplet on the top right of mu screen muted so I un-muted it again. Full shut down, wait 20 minutes, boot – no sound. One of the pages said that I needed to make sure that I have the following 5 groups: Audio, Pulse, Pulse-Access, Pulse-RT and Video. The 12 updates listed did not seem to be related to sound, but were listed as security updates so I installed them. and afterwards the Update Manager popped up. Do you want to continue? y followed by lots of activity. Pre.cjk sudo rm /etc/nf sudo rm -r ~/.pulse ~/.asound* sudo rm ~/.pulse-cookie sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install aptitude sudo aptitude install paman gnome-alsamixer libasound2-plugins padevchooser libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio sudo lshw -short ls -lart /dev/snd cat /dev/sndstat lspci -nn sudo which alsactl sudo fuser -v /dev/dsp /dev/snd/* dpkg -S bin/slmodemd dmesg | egrep 'EMU|probe|emu|ALSA|alsa|ac97|udi|snd|ound|irmware ' sudo /etc/init.d/sl-modem-daemon status sudo grep model /etc/modprobe.d/* sudo dmidecode|grep roduct lsmod | egrep 'snd|usb|midi|udio' aplay -l sudo lshw -C sound Result: 0 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 2 to remove and 12 not upgraded. Other times all is silent and no matter what I do I cannot get any sound I've tried using the troubleshooting guides and the following is a "diary" of my attempts to fix this:

When I boot up I sometimes have sound and everything works fine. I have been struggling with the sound on my eMachine Model M622-UK8X laptop running Lucid Lynx.
