[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#760024: base: Sound Card Not Found (Flash audio works fine, but not system sound)

[Dean Chia]

Package: base
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I am unsure what exactly led up to it. I tried googling, but to no avail.
It may be to do with sid dist-upgrading, but no bugs were found.

I tried reinstalling alsa or pulse-audio, dpkg-reconfigure, etc. Currently,
when I try to go to Gnome Settings [I'm Debian Sid amd64]

LSPCI: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset
Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

uname: 3.14-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.14.15-2 (2014-08-09) x86_64 GNU/Linux

/proc/asound/version: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver
Version k3.14-2-amd64

aplay -l:
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC259 Analog [ALC259 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

# head -n 1 /proc/asound/card*/codec#*
==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 <==
Codec: Realtek ALC259

[when playing an mp3 or any sound file, which I used to be able to play...
I reinstalled ffmpeg, libavcodec55 --> I have in my repo - deb-multimedia ...
when I open an audio file with rhythmbox, it says - missing codec!]

My /etc/modprobe.d has no alsa directory ... dunno if that's helpful ...

$aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/*.wav --> this does work ...

Output for lsmod | grep snd

snd_hda_codec_hdmi     40955  1 
snd_hda_codec_realtek    50301  1 
snd_hda_codec_generic    59065  1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_intel          43768  0 
snd_hda_codec         100159  4 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              13148  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                84566  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer              26614  1 snd_pcm
snd                    61094  8 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
soundcore              13026  1 snd

I am also in the audio group.

So, to summarize the problem: I cannot play audio files from my file system.
There is no sound card recognized (e.g. in Virtualbox, it says no audio)
(e.g. in Banshee, sound is muted, and I cannot change it ... it refuses to play
music . . . same thing with Rhythmbox - it says missing codec) ... but I can
play and hear Youtube videos, Hulu.com, etc., Google Play music from browser,
etc.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash