I thought of opening a new thread -- but this may be a related problem. My main desktop system is now booting without the snd_hda_intel module loaded. But I can modprobe it, then I have sound. The only thing I can think of that might have caused this is, yesterday I upgraded the systemd packages, which were previously on hold.
don@imerabox:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
don@imerabox:~$ lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
05:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF100 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
don@imerabox:~$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_usb_audio 98706 1
snd_usbmidi_lib 15422 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hwdep 5309 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_pcm_oss 30216 0
snd_mixer_oss 12246 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 61237 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_usb_audio
snd_page_alloc 6170 1 snd_pcm
snd_seq_oss 34021 1
snd_seq_midi_event 4532 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_rawmidi 15610 1 snd_usbmidi_lib
snd_seq 41713 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq_device 4601 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss
snd_timer 15473 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 49520 13 snd_pcm_oss,snd_usb_audio,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_device,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore 4370 1 snd
usbcore 129729 9 uhci_hcd,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,ehci_hcd,ehci_pci,gspca_main,usbhid,gspca_zc3xx,xhci_hcd
don@imerabox:~$ su
Password:
root@imerabox:/home/don# modprobe snd_hda_intel
root@imerabox:/home/don# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyxcb_connection_has_error() returned true
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC889 Analog [ALC889 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC889 Digital [ALC889 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
root@imerabox:/home/don#
dmesg does not show any detection of the audio chip during boot.
Are any of the other systemd systems having this issue?