Hi people,

This is my first post. I consider myself a newbie in Linux, but in general I can solve the problems by googling (which almost always ends up in this forum). For this strange problem I couldn't find out how to solve it.

Let's start. I have a knoppix, kernel version 2.6.19, installed on my hdd. Everything started when I noticed that flash animations on webpages don't play any sound, although I can hear sounds in other applications. Then I found out that flash plugin was compiled to work with alsa instead of oss. So, I just tried to know what was going on with alsa on my computer. When executed amixer, I get:

Code:
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device

After reading, googling and so on, I executed alsaconf to configure sound. So, after that I got

Code:
Running update-modules... Loading driver... Usage: /etc/init.d/alsa {unload|reload|force-unload|force-reload|suspend|resume}Setting default volumes... amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device =============================================================================== Now ALSA is ready to use. For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer. Have a lot of fun!
with no sound.

I remembered that the sound module was snd-cmipci, so I loaded it with modprobe. Sound was back! but when I execute amixer (or, rather, any application that uses alsa) I get that 'no sound card is installed'.

I repeat many times this, and the only way to get (non-alsa) sound is by manually loading the module.

What I did was to reinstall alsa-related packages. So, I executed

Code:
apt-get install --reinstall alsa-base
And, surprise!: alsaconf configured properly my soundcard! The consequence is that alsa-applications can play sounds! Great!

But when I restart my system, everything goes back to the beginning. The only way to get alsa system to work is by reinstalling it and running alsaconf afterwards (in this order).

btw, alsa-utils,base,all-other-alsa-related-packages version is 1.0.14-1

Any clue to make it work forever?

Thanks in advance for your help.