not the same hardware, but in case it provides some comfort... my sound keeps dying and coming back when I change kernels, because things just randomly change, so I'm getting adept at re-checking the obvious stuff. I'm running 2.6.11.8 on a ICH4 chipset... It seems to keep getting set to something abnormal.. It should look like so...
% ls -al dsp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 27 12:02 dsp -> /dev/dsp0 % % ls -al /dev/dsp0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 Dec 27 12:02 /dev/dsp0 %what seems to happen a lot is that the permissions are not managed correctly. /dev/snd contains all the mixer controls. Can you bring up a mixer, like kmix, or alsamixer in a shell window
chmod 666 /dev/dsp0 /dev/snd/*Are the correct drivers loaded? you should have something like snd_intel8x0 loaded along with all the other snd_ stuff.
watch out if it loads the snd-intel8x0m that has modem support and doesn't assuming after checking the above you can bring up a mixer, check the levels on it. They seem to get set to mute and you have to raise them to hear anything. Christian Birkholm Clausen wrote:
Hello,I have the exact same problem on my T42. I installed 2.6.11.8 with the same sound config as you and the same one worked fine with 2.6.8.2 something.But now there's just no sound. I recompiled quite a few times changing the sound section in the kernel-config, but nothing seems to help.I noticed that I get an error message saying: /dev/dsp not existing. I'm not sure about this /dev/dsp, haven't figured out what this is and if it is significant to our mutual problem.Anyone? Thanks in advance, Christian C. Copenhagen - DK Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote:Hello, I have installed on a IBM-T40 debian unstable. I had my own compiled linux-2.6.10 working well for quite a while, but I needed to recompile the kernel, so I decided to go for linux-2.6.11.8. As usual its compilation was not a problem, and reboot is smooth... Problems is that when openning xmms and trying to listen anything with sound card, nothing shows up, just silence... I don't know if there's something wrong with ALSA for this new kernel, but after several trials I declined my attempt. Actually I recompiled linux-2.6.10, and I have the sound card up and running again. Too bad I couldn;t get it to work on latest kernel though... Has someone experienced the same? Any hints? I'm providing config file I used for linux-2.6.11.8 just in case... Thanks in advance (if possible please include me with [to] or [cc] so that I get the answer directly)...