Hi folks,. I am following this thread a little bit. As I got a new soundcard for my netbook today (the old one was broken), I discovered also the "no sound" issue. A quick check in Windows and a linux livefile system, told me, that the new sound card is working again (the old one was indeed physically broken!) and the problem appears only in debian/testing.
IO know that this message is late, but due to the broken hardware I discovered the issue just today. However, as written before, stopping the timidity process let sound work again (thanks for this hint). I looked, but I did not find a bugreport against timidity in the reportlist, or is there one, which is related to this? At the momemnt I stop timidity manually as a workaround, no problem. Looks like uninstalling timidity is not a good idea. Please, if there is a bugreport, a clue might be nice. Best regards Hans