No more audio after upgrading the packages on RNH

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:49:14 +0100 (CET), Nicolas.Castagne at imag.fr
<Nicolas.Castagne at imag.fr> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I installed recently various machines with red hat enterprise 3.
> I then upgraded all the packages by using upd2date in red hat network.
> 
> Since then, the audio facilities are out of order (they were OK before).
> 
> The redhat-config-soundcard tool runs correctly, still displays the audio
> driver info, but the 'test sound' button no more plays anything.
> 
> The various Volume Control tools do not run, nore the audio players.
> 
> Executing more /var/log/messages results in
> (extract)
> >modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0
> >modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3
> >modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0
> >mmodprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3
> >mmodprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0
> >mmodprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3
> 
> The machines are DELL precision 360, with Analog Device internal
> AD1980-AC97 sound cards.
> I tried to reinstall drivers provided by DELL (and even ASUS) for the
> card. No success.
> 
> What should I do ?
> 

1) Let's look at the state of Alsa and find out what's going on:

cat /proc/asound/version
cat /proc/asound/cards

2) What modules did you want loaded? 

cat /etc/modprobe.conf

3) What modules are loaded?

lsmod

4) What sound hardware is really in your system?

lspci -vv

AND TRIM PLEASE!!!

>From there we'll have a better idea what step to take next