Sound broken by Synaptic. Anyone else? Any thoughts

[Bill Freeman]

	As long as Ben is clarifying Debian...  (Not really, but one
must heckle occasionally.)


	A couple of weeks ago I let Synaptic (APT front end) have its
way with update and upgrade of the Compaq Presario 1200Z (1201Z if the
label on the bottom is to be believed) laptop that I've been using
with Debian Sarge (testing?).  I've done this many times before.  This
time didn't seem different, and not involving a kernel upgrade
(running 2.6.12-1-i686), it was a pretty simple one.

	When the smoke cleared, however, sound doesn not work.

	I don't believe that the hardware has broken, since sound
still works fine under Windows.

	A suitable set of modules seems to be loaded, including
sound_core, sound, snd, via82cxxx, and via82cxxx_audio.

	Various apps complain about the lack of /dev/dsp, and, indeed,
it's not there.  (There is, however, /dev/dspW)

	Has anyone else seen a comparable failure on a recent upgrade?

	I'm not a long time Debian user.  Can the experienced point me
to the equivalent of RedHat's sndconfig?  Or some other tool?  Or
files to examine?  How is it done on Debian?

	Any other thoughts?  Perhaps the device node got blown away
and I have to make it by hand, like in the old days?  Or a symbolic
link?

							Bill