[rhn-users] Audio problem when upgrading Red Hat Enterprise 3

[Michael Durket]

Nicolas,

  I recently had a similar problem with my Dell Precision systems.
If I recall correctly, what happens is that RedHat's dev RPM wipes
out the the ALSA system symlinks that Dell uses (at least that's what
happened in my case).

  If it's what I think it is, make sure that this symlink is 
present on your Dell machine (assuming that you're using the 
ALSA sound drivers supplied by Dell):

   /dev/snd -> /proc/asound/dev

  Hope this helps,

  Michael Durket

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:03:50 +0100 (CET)
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 "parametre de systeme/detecter la carte son " (system parameter/detect
> audio sound card) still displays the audio driver info, but the 'play'
> button no more plays anything.
> The various Volume COntrol tools do not run, nore the audio players.
> 
> 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 ?
> 
> Thx
> Nicolas
> 
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