I’m running debian lenny\/sid with\u00c2\u00a0 kernel 2.6.26-1 on my workstation and for a while, my audio hasn’t been working in most applications (I was most annoyed by the lack of sound in flash), though it has been working in amarok.\u00c2\u00a0 I was getting error messages like this when trying to do audio playback.\u00c2\u00a0 These particular messages are from Ekiga:<\/p>\n
\nALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.namehint.extended'\r\nALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory\r\nALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory\r\nALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM plughw:0\r\nALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.namehint.extended'\r\nALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory\r\nALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory\r\nALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM plughw:0\r\nALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.namehint.extended'\r\nALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory\r\nALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory\r\nALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM plughw:0<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\nI finally looked into this and was able to fix it with the simple command<\/p>\n
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