No Sound with kernel upgrade

[Justin Willmert]

bbales wrote:
> On Friday 02 September 2005 17:28, you wrote:
> 
>>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
> 
> 
> I find these files in /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1376_FC3/kernel/sound/pci/   
> Not sure what "blacklist" means -- probably remove it.  Should I just 
> rename or erase the file in the directory above?
> bruce

"blacklist" means you tell Fedora to not load the module, no matter 
what. Add the following line into /etc/hotplug/blacklist and restart:

     snd-intel8x0m

That's it! If your problem is the same as mine, after you reboot, sound 
should be suddenly working!

Hope this helps you,
Justin