FC8, lost sound

[Steven Stern]

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OK, take away my license to operate linux...

While digging through the pile of cables today looking for the volume
control for my Monsoon speaker system, I found that the mute button was
pressed.  Yet another misdiagnosed hardware problem!

On 03/14/2008 07:42 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
| Last night, I was fumbling around trying to play a DVD that was just a
| bit too encrypted. I installed libdvdcss and then lindvd.  They have
| since been uninstalled. Now, I have no sound. I'm not sure that those
| packages caused the problem, but ...
|
| In any case, system-config-soundcard sees the SB Audigy card, but
| nothing comes out.  When I boot into Windows, it's happy.
|
| On the same day, a bunch of packages were installed, including hal.
|
| My suspicion is that it has more to do with HAL than the dvd fumbling.
| Has anyone else lost sound since  hal - 0.5.10-1.fc8.2.i386
|
| Is there some way I can "clean" the system of what it knows about the
| current sound card and let it rediscover it from scratch?
|

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~  Steve
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