[SOLVED] Problems with sound

[Walter Dnes]

  After the umpteenth repetition of kernel-rebuild/reboot/alsaconf, alsa
has mysteriously started working again (mpg123, mplayer, audacious, etc).
The only thing that I did differently was to...

  - remove kernel-based alsa support entirely (not even built as a module)
    in favour of alsa-driver and rebooted.

  - when I rebuilt the kernel with alsa support and re-booted, it worked

  gcc is "economical" in that it only rebuilds what is necessary.  I
assume that it was including some previous-version stuff rather than
overwriting it with new code.  Totally removing alsa support may have
cleaned it out, and allowed for a fresh start when building it the next
time.

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