My sound quit sometime in the last couple weeks...

[Kevin Kempter]

On Thursday 08 January 2009 09:25:38 Linuxguy123 wrote:
> I don't have sound anymore.  It used to work fine, except that it
> sometimes quit if I adjusted the volume in youtube.  If I restarted it
> worked fine again.   Now I never have any sound.
>
> The settings in kmix look OK.
>
> Start-> Administration-> Soundcard Detection:
>
> =====================================================
> The following audio device was detected.
>
> Selected card
> Vendor: Intel Corporation
> Model: 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
> Module: snd-hda-intel
>
> Device settings
> PCM device STAC92xx Digital
> =====================================================
>
>
> When I run the sound test and don't hear the sound, I get the following
> message:
>
> ========================================================================
> Automatic detection of the sound card did not work.  This audio device
> will not be available on the system.
> ========================================================================
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks

a number of machines (myself included) lost sound with the last kernel update 
- try booting the old kernel, if that works I suspect we're all running the 
old kernel until a fix shows up.