Newest firmware breaks some programs that use ALSA

[StevenHickson]

I suspect the cuprit is "kernel: rebuild with alsa mmap support"
commit 994e463

Programs that use alsa libs like espeak give errors and no longer produce audio. Some still work for me like omxplayer and pianobar. But espeak doesn't, even with recompiling it from source.
I get errors like:
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.BRCM bcm2835 AL.pcm.front.0:CARD=0'

Happened right after I updated with no other changes. I am going to try to replace it with the old modules/3.6.11+/kernel/sound/arm/snd-bcm2835.ko and see what happens.

[licaon-kter]

Read the comments: raspberrypi/linux#286
Also, this is just a copy of the main repo, most of the times issues should be reported her instead: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues

[popcornmix]

Short answer: "sudo rm /etc/asound.conf"