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Re: Sound not working



On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:16:15AM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote:
> On Thursday 24 March 2005 18:12, stan wrote:
> > I noticed today that sound has stoped working on my laptop. It seesm that
> > the hardware is dtected corectly:
> >
> > i810: Intel ICH3 found at IO 0x4400 and 0x4000, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000,
> > IRQ 11
> > i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
> > i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
> > i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
> > ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS99 (Unknown)
> > i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 Unable to map surround DAC's (or DAC's not
> > present), total channels = 2
> > i810_audio: setting clocking to 41618
> >
> > and /dev/dsp is there:
> >
> > stan@brown2:~$ ls -l /dev/dsp
> > crw-rw-rw-  1 root audio 14, 3 Apr 14  2001 /dev/dsp
> >
> > And I'm a meber of group audio, and it does not work for root either.
> >
> > What can I check next?
> >
> It seems that everything is set up properly using OSS.  Can you tell us how 
> you are trying to play sound?  What program are you using?  Are you running 
> an environment with a sound daemon, such as KDE or Gnome?  Have you used a 
> mixer to check the volume levels and mute settings?
> 
> Also, it may be important to tell us, to the best of your memory, what 
> changed in-between the sound working and it not working.  Did you upgrade 
> software?  Change some hardware?  Anything you can remember might be 
> important.
> 
Turns out it still works, if I boot into the 2.4 kerenl, but not if I boot
into the 2.6 kernel.

Given that, what should I check next?

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