My core 3 install's sound stopped working!

[Kam Leo]

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 10:58:41 -0600, blank <mother.of.gods at gmail.com>
wrote: HaJo Schatz wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, blank 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.
> >
> >
> > While recommending an "mplayer -ao alsa" to go through alsa rather
> > than oss, I could only think of:
> > - The sound card having died (any chance to check it in another PC/OS?)
> > - The mixer. Today (after upgrading my kernel) sonehow all my mixer
> > controls were down to 0 and muted. Just double-check with alsamixer on
> > a console, as root (this is important, don't do it as a normal user,
> > it didn't help for me either! Dunno yet why not, however) that your
> > controls are up and not muted.
> >
> >
> > HaJo
> >
> Thank you both for the replies. I've logged in as root and made sure the
> visible settings are set correctly. I also gave the "mplayer -ao alsa"
> as shot, but no dice for me.  I do have some more info though.
> 
> Here is "lspci -vvvv" output (for the hardware):
> http://www.liquidconfusion.com/lspci_vvvv.txt
> 
> Here is "lsmod" output:
> http://www.liquidconfusion.com/lsmod.txt
> 
> Here is some output from xmms:
> http://www.liquidconfusion.com/xmms_oss_error_dsp.txt
> 
> It appears as though something, somewhere, somehow (possibly me, no idea
> how though) has changed the overall system-preference for sound to OSS
> when that's not what I was using, nor want to use. And having decided
> this will be the install that I finally keep and upgrade, I wanted to
> ask before mucking around in settings I shouldn't.
> 
> Oh, here is the mobo I am using with an althon xp:
> http://www.ecsusa.com/products/l7s7a2.html
> 
> Thanks again for any help :)
> 
> jb

>From the output of lspci it would appear that you have on-board sound.
You mentioned unplugging and plugging your card. Do you have both
onboard and plug-in sound enabled?