No Sound with kernel upgrade
Justin Willmert
justin at jdjlab.com
Fri Sep 2 22:28:21 UTC 2005
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
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