No Sound with kernel upgrade

[Justin Willmert]

bbales wrote:
> I am using FC3 and kernel 2.6.12-1.1376 and an Intel i82801 sound chip and 
> I can't get sound working.  Everything looks like it is working, but no 
> sound.
> 
> xmms gives notice:
> 	Please check that your soundcard is configured properly
> 	You have the correct output plugin.
> 	No other program is blocking the sound card.
> and then shows the xmms window with a very active audio band display.
> 
> How does one configure a sound card?
> 
> play <song.wav> gives
> 	sox: can't open output file '/dev/dsp': device or resource busy
> 
> This can't hardly be true.  This was the first thing I did after boot.
> 
> I've looked at alsamixer, aumixer and amixer to be sure none is muted.
> 
> Since sound played before I updated from the 2.6.9 kernel, and it still 
> works with knoppix, I'm sure the hardware is OK.
> 
> kudzu and /etc/sysconfig/hwconf indicate that the hardware has been 
> recognized and a driver  (snd-intel8x0) assigned.
> 
> We no longer have sndconfig, although I don't know that it would help here.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated,
> bruce
> 
> 

I had problems with my Intel sound card too. I had snd-intel8x0 and 
snd-intel8x0m loaded. After I blacklisted sndintel8x0m and restarted, my 
sound card worked.

Hope this helps,
Justin Willmert