FC6 sound gone

[Konstantin Svist]

I always set that setting to ALSA and keep it there - haven't had many 
problems with that config.
All programs that have a setting for it, I also set to ALSA.


Gene Smith wrote:
> Christian Menzel wrote, On 05/18/2007 11:11 AM:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The sound in my FC6 installation was workings since I installed it in 
>> Oct 2006.
>> Now it suddenly stopped working and I'm not aware of changing anything.
> <snip>
> 
> Just for record, my AC97 onboard sound just stopped while listening to a 
> Real Player stream. Had been working previously with no problems. Did 
> nothing to stop sound such as playing with mixer, updating stuff, etc. 
> Reboot did not help. Finally this "fixed" it:
> 
> In kde ctrl panel, set hardware from autodetect to oss
> get error about /dev/dvd not present.
> Test sound fails.
> Set to hardware to alsa.
> Test sound works again!
> Set back to autodetect.
> Test sounds still works.
> 
> Must be a bug somewhere, but who knows.
> 
> -gene
>