Ross Burtonhttp://www.burtonini.com/blogA potted account of Ross' lifeen60Ross BurtonALSA Woescomputers/alsa-2006-08-09-12-20http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/alsa-2006-08-09-12-20Has anyone seen this, and know a solution, for ALSA on a ThinkPad X60: $ esd ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:786:(snd_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) snd_pcm_hw_params_any ... Has anyone seen this, and know a solution, for ALSA on a ThinkPad X60: 

$ esd
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:786:(snd_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) snd_pcm_hw_params_any failed
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:831:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to initialize slave

The sound card is a standard Intel chipset: 

0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
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