Andrew,

I noticed weirdness with ALSA under 2.6.9-rc4-mm1 (and all mm's under
2.6.9-rc3).

Upon starting GNOME/KDE i get /dev/dsp no such device but the ALSA
modules are loaded for the nForce2 onboard audio snd_intel8x0 and udev
creates /dev/snd/* but not the dsp/audio links which AFAIK worked under
2.6.9-rc2-mm4 kernel.

lsmod output:

snd_pcm_oss            50664  0
snd_mixer_oss          18112  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0           28964  2
snd_ac97_codec         73888  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm                86664  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              22596  1 snd_pcm
snd                    48100  10
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               7520  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7624  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

lspci output:

00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce
MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
        Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0c11
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0 (250ns min, 3000ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
        Region 0: Memory at ee000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=512K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97
Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
        Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 4144
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
        Region 0: I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
        Region 1: I/O ports at d000 [size=128]
        Region 2: Memory at ee080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=4K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

dmesg snip:

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] enabled at IRQ 21
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, high) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49682 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 47379

I noticed no errors or warnings other than /dev/dsp no such device.It
makes me wonder if there's been in kernel ALSA changes that could cause
this?

Attached is my kernel's .config

Regards,

Paul B.