No sound after last kernel update.

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Feb 1, 2008 9:22 AM, Mark C. Allman <mcallman at allmanpc.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 10:51 -0600, hackob wrote:
> > El vie, 01-02-2008 a las 10:45 -0600, hackob escribió:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > After last kernel update I have no sound in my pc, I have an Intel
> > > AC'97. If I do a lspci I can see the sound card, but in gnome desktop
> > > Sound Hardware I only have the PCM output and Modem speaker.
> >
> > Sorry, I didn't say that the kernel versión is
> > kernel-2.6.23.14-107.fc8.
> > >
> > > Any idea?, tks.
> > >
> > > Hackob.
> > >
> >
> Do you have the Alsa apps such as aplay, arecord, amixer, etc.,
> installed?  If so, type "aplay -l" and see if any soundcards are found.
> This is what I get:
>    [mcallman at prez doc]$ aplay -l
>    aplay: device_list:205: no soundcards found...
>
>
> I also lost the sound output, although not all.  I can play a ".au" file
> directly to the /dev/audio device (cat file.au > /dev/audio) and I hear
> it.  I'm working on finding the solution.  I've posted about it here but
> haven't had any luck.  It's something with the "pcm" devices (whatever
> they are), I think.  I've never fiddled with anything audio before so
> it's all new to me.

Did you try disabling pulseaudio to see if that helps?


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