Hello, There was a recent thread in this list called "Alsa with audiopci1370" which sort of concludes saying "For some reason /etc/init.d/alsa (start) was not loading the drivers properly."
I want to add that this also happens with my AW64 sound card. /etc/init.d/alsa simply doesn't work and I get a "/dev/audio: no such file or device" message every time I run a sound program even though /dev/audio is a valid file in the system. My solution is to take the lines from /etc/modules.conf added by my alsa-modules deb file (created after compiling the ALSA sources using make-kpkg) and copy them into /etc/modules. After reboot everything is ok. So it seems to me that the module-loading instructions in /etc/modules.conf is correct but for some reason /etc/init.d/alsa is buggy. And this happened to me with the last three versions of ALSA-source uploaded to potato. -- Pedro I. Sanchez
