Re: No Sound after Experiment with KDE4

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kent West wrote:
> I had a perfectly working Debian Sid/KDE3 box.
>
> Then I added experimental to my sources.list file and installed enough 
> KDE4 stuff to play with it for a day or so. If I recall correctly, 
> sound worked for the first few hours, but by the time I got tired of 
> KDE4, I noticed sound was no longer working.
>
> I uninstalled all the KDE4 stuff, and reinstalled KDE3. Still no sound 
> (either in KDE, or Gnome, or Icewm, or via mplayer with no X/DE running).
>
> I upgraded my kernel (from 2.6.22, I think, to 2.6.28-1-686. Still, no 
> sound.
>
> I did a dist-upgrade. Still, no sound.
>
> I uninstalled/tweaked/reinstalled stuff like linux-sound-base, any 
> alsa-related stuff, manually installed modules, etc. Still, no sound.
>
> It LOOKS like everything is working:
>
> westk@canuhold:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [I82801DBICH4   ]: ICH4 - Intel 82801DB-ICH4
>                      Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with AD1981A at irq 17
>
> and any players I fire up look like they're working (progress bars 
> move; video effects jiggle; etc). I've played with Kmix and alsamixer 
> to make sure all the channels are unmuted and volume up. Still, no sound.
>
> I can boot off a year-old XUbuntu CD, and sound works fine.

I compared the modules loaded by Xubuntu and copied over some 
/etc/modprobe.d files, and I'm still getting the same behavior: 
everything looks like it works, but no audio is produced (it's like the 
sound is muted, but it's not).

The one thing I noticed as different is that "cat /proc/asound/cards" 
while under Xubuntu gave the second line (compare to that above) as:

Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with AD1981A at 0xffa10400, irq 21

But I still don't know where to go from here. Any suggestions?

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Kent



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