ALSA problems after upgrading to 2.6.10

[chip_0]

I run slackware 10.1, I recently followed the instructions to upgrade to the kernel 2.6.10 provided in the /testing directory, and I created the initrd and installed the kernel-generic, kernel-modules, kernel-headers and alsa-driver package in the /testing directory of the 2nd cd.

The new kernel boots fine, but the problem I am facing is that after running alsaconf, my sound card (a Yamaha ISA sound card with module snd-opl3sa2) is detected, but on rebooting and running any sound application (like mpg321), I get -

ALSA lib confmisc.c:550:(snd_determine_driver) could not open control for card 0
ALSA lib conf.c:3463:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:387:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3463:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:945:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3463:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3932:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2068:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
No default libao driver available.

Even manually modprobing the driver gives the same result, and I have no idea how to go about fixing this. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[St. Joe]

It might be worth using alsamixer to get the proper mix on your audio settings, and then save those before your next reboot.

$ alsamixer
# alsactl store

[chip_0]

Thanks for your help, well the problem is that the error was encountered while loading the modules itself, so I do not think setting the volume correctly would help.

But the good news is that I removed the configuration setup by alsaconf, and instead enabled hotplug at bootup, and now I have my sound card working fine. However, I would prefer to have a working sound card without having to run hotplug each time, so is there any way I could find the settings used by my sound card driver, and configure it manually?

[chip_0]

Allright, I finally could get it to work by removing the options line added by alsaconf to /etc/modprobe.conf, I wonder why it detected the settings incorrectly?

Thanks for your help btw, when I could finally load my sound card module (snd-opl3sa2) properly, I was still not getting any sound and it turned out that the volume levels had been muted