FC6 sound gone

[Nigel Henry]

On Friday 18 May 2007 18:37, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 17:11 +0200, Christian Menzel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The sound in my FC6 installation was workings since I installed it in Oct
> > 2006. Now it suddenly stopped working and I'm not aware of changing
> > anything. I get no error messages from the audio applications like xmms
> > or mplayer when I try to play audio. They show the normal behaviour, I
> > just don't hear anything.
> >
> > The soundcard is OK, when I boot Knoppix from DVD, sound is working
> >
> > The mixer is not muted, system-config-soundcard won't help, the
> > modules are loaded.
> >
> > Is there any configuration I can reset?  Or should I just wait for FC7
> > and reinstall the whole stuff? I'm desperate...
>
> When I got REALLY desperate, I'd powerdown, unplug the card, reboot, let
> the system deal with no sound card for a bit, making sure
> that /etc/modprobe.conf was empty of sound card module info (or better
> yet comment them out) then shutdown and carefully re-insert it, reboot
> and Voila`! Woot! ...der it is! The hardware dingus would automatically
> detect and install it brand new. It's a bit *ExTrEmE* but worked for me
> in a royal pinch when I was at wit's end. Ric
> --

Now just where did you find that word "dingus"? The last time I heard that was 
from a Belgian friend, who used it when he couldn't find the correct english 
word for something.

Nigel.