[CM] snd: cannot set hardware parameters for default

[Bill Schottstaedt]

> The alsa api is not horrible but it is very complicated. Most 
> programmers don't spend the necessary time to understand it

I sit here biting my tongue and grinding my teeth, if that's
anatomically possible.  The code is nearly the way you left it,
although I made some changes when Alsa went through some
backwards incompatible changes.  I say the Alsa API is horrible
(there! I bit my tongue, and it did no good).