No sound after update today -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 13/07/11 10:44, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Bob Goodwin writes:
>
>>         I ran yum update earlier and now I have no sound. I haven't
>>         found anything that restores it in alsamixer or p/a vol.
>>         control. Alsamixer [F5 for All] only displays two controls,
>>         normally there are others that require unmuting?
>>
>>         I have Thunderbird mail set up for voice announcements for
>>         various e-mail sources and have come to rely on sound for that
>>         so it's a bit of a panic.
>>
>>         This is: Linux box6 2.6.38.8-35.fc15.i686 #1 SMP Wed Jul 6
>>         14:46:26 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>>         Any suggestions?
>
> Boot with the previous kernel, and see if that fixes it.
>

        Thanks Sam, that fixed it, or at least got around the problem. I
        can't recall having a problem due to a new kernel, usually
        everything continues to work. But I should have tried first ...

        Hopefully whatever the problem will be corrected.

        Bob