Re: my sound went away

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

Rick Pasotto wrote:
> I am running Etch. My kernel is:
> Linux mnr.niof.net 2.6.15-1-k7 #2 Mon Mar 6 15:42:39 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Today I rebooted and now I no longer have any sound. Checking the boot
> log I see the line:
>
> Mon Apr 10 11:58:33 2006: * via82cxxx_audio disabled in configuration.
>
> Is this my problem?

I think that depends on whether you are using ALSA or OSS.

> If so, what configuration file needs to be changed?
>
> In /etc/modutils/linux-sound-base_noOSS I had set 'alias via82cxxx_audio'
> to 'on' and ran update-modules and rebooted. Still the same message.
>
> Does some other alias also need to be changed?

Are you really using OSS with such a new kernel? If you use ALSA this
module should be "off"; try to "modprobe snd_via82xx" instead. The
output of "lsmod | egrep snd\|audio" might also be of interest.

Regards,
           Florian