sounds stopped suddenly?

[Phil]

What you describe is exactly what is happenning... but I cannot get the
other PCM device to work... I will try some more stuff...


On 4/4/07, Marcel <madmarcel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Phil wrote:
> > So my sound does not work... I am using FC6.
> > It used to work fine.
> >
> > Is there a way to reinstall all the sound related stuff? How do I do
> that?
> > Any suggestions?
>
> I had a similar problem up until I read your post and double-checked my
> settings :D
>
> After a yum update the sounds suddenly stopped working, and I hadn't
> figured out how to fix it. I have several machines with FC5 and FC6
> here, and some of them have also had this problem. But then, on some
> machines the sound is gone for a week/a month, and then suddenly it is
> back again. Go figure.
>
> Here's were it gets weird: Soundcard Detection works perfectly, detects
> the correct hardware, and even plays the test sounds that I can hear
> coming out of the speakers. But not a single other application produces
> sound. They are all muted for some reason, with no reported errors when
> I run them in a console.
>
> Turns out there are 2 PCM devices listed in the sound-detection
> application, and somehow the wrong one was selected.
> Duh.
> Check that, maybe that will help.
> Other things to check: Is the kernel-module for your soundcard loaded,
> try unloading and reloading it. (lsmod, rmmod, modprobe, all that jazz)
> Check dmesg, any errors with regards to ALSA, ESD etc.
>
> Update your system? Maybe that will fix things?
>
> A related problem I ran into a while back on different hardware:
> When you plug a head-phone into your soundcard, something
> detects/triggers that, and it is meant to automagically redirect the
> sound to the appropriate port/mute the normal channels. That doesn't
> always work out of the box on some hardware, and you sometimes get
> unexpected results.
> Try using/not using head-phones and see what happens.
>
> If all else fails, can you post what type of soundcard is in your machine?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcel
>
>
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