On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Michael Prokop <bts@bts.grml.org> wrote:

> Please try upgrading all alsa related package to latest versions
> from Debian unstable/experimental and upgrade your kernel to
> 2.6.28-grml (available through grml-testing) as well.

thanks for the swift reply. Done as you suggested. Here are the results:

aptitude -t experimental install alsa-oss alsa-base alsa-utils libesd-alsa0
aptitude install aufs-modules-2.6.28-grml linux-image-2.6.28-grml
# reboot, then

% alsa reload
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-via82xx snd-mpu401-uart
snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-via82xx-modem snd-ac97-codec
snd-rawmidi snd-pcm snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device snd-page-alloc.
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-via82xx snd-mpu401-uart
snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-via82xx-modem snd-ac97-codec
snd-rawmidi snd-pcm snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device snd-page-alloc.

% ls /dev/dsp
ls: cannot access /dev/dsp: No such file or directory

% cat /dev/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.18rc3 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux helios.selfip.org 2.6.28-grml #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 29
18:07:13 UTC 2008 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
VIA 8237 with AD1980 at 0xc800, irq 22

Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
31: system timer

Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG