My core 3 install's sound stopped working!

[Kam Leo]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:20:24 -0600, blank <mother.of.gods at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> New guy to the list here and finally have Linux only on my workstation.
> I know my hardware is supported as well, it worked perfectly after
> install and for a week or so afterwards.
> 
> Anyway, I have no sound now and dmesg only gives "application mplayer
> uses obsolete OSS audio interface" when I try mplayer and dmesg shows
> nothing about say, xmms even though it appears to play, but no sound.
> I've used up2date and yum to upgrade most things. xmms is from source as
> is mplayer, but I think that is all I've installed from source dealing
> with sound.
> 
> I've removed my sound card, let kudzu remove the configuration for it,
> added the sound card again, let kudzu add it, and still no sound. As
> I've said, sound used to work and I've checked things like mute and
> wires and connections.
> 
> I don't mind doing the reading, so if someone can point me in the
> correct direction, I'd appreciate it :)
> 
> jb
> 

What brand/make/model soundcard do you have?  If it is an ISA
soundcard you probably need to compile a custom kernel.  OSS drivers
have been depricated and the drivers are not enabled in the 2.6
kernel.