[Bug 71360] The sound is not working on PPC (for no reason)

[Sergey V. Udaltsov]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: totem-gstreamer

Trying to play any media file, I am getting the error message "Cannot open resource for writing". 
In the console I see:
ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card 'Snapper'
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3947:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2146:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default

At the same time, gmplayer plays files ok. lsof /dev/dsp returns
nothing.

The sound card is Power G5's internal sound. There is also Plantronics
USB headset attached.

In the "Sound preferences", "Default sound card" is set to
"SoundByLayout" (???) - since it the only choice different from
"Plantronics headset".

Trying to test "Music and movies" "Sound playback" combobox, I see that
it only works with "OSS" value, but with "ALSA" I am getting  the same
error: "Could not open resource for writing"

** Affects: totem (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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The sound is not working on PPC (for no reason)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/71360