Sound Not Working After Kernel Update

[jimjag]

I have an Inspiron 1420 which i installed Fedora 8 with the kernel - 2.6.23.1-42.fc8.i686 a couple of days ago and the sound was working perfectly.
After the update manager updated to kernel - 2.6.24.3-50.fcc8.i686 the sound no longer works.

If i reboot and load the old kernel the sound works fine. It only just doesn't work in the update kernel?
Is there anything special i should have done or should do to get it working.

[notageek]

Hi jimjag,

Please attach the output of lspci and lsmod (from the new kernel).

[jimjag]

Hi jimjag,

Please attach the output of lspci and lsmod (from the new kernel).

I'm still very new to linux, how do i get the output :confused:

[notageek]

Okay sorry about that

Open a terminal type in the following, and attach these files to your post.

$ lspci > lspci.txt
$ lsmod > lsmod.txt

[jimjag]

Okay sorry about that

Open a terminal type in the following, and attach these files to your post.

$ lspci > lspci.txt
$ lsmod > lsmod.txt

when i type that in terminal i get

[Jimjag@localhost ~]$ lsmod > lsmod.txt
bash: lsmod: command not found
[Jimjag@localhost ~]$ lspci > lspci.txt
bash: lspci: command not found

[notageek]

Try "su -"
enter root password, and then retry the above commands.

Here's a link that'll list all possible troubleshooting tips to fix no audio.
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/rhsound.html

However it is apparent that the new kernel doesn't have support for your sound card, under these circumstances I suggest you keep using the older kernel until a newer kernel is available.

[jimjag]

after typing su - The commands worked where do they output the txt files to though?

[jimjag]

ok here both the files

lsmod

[root@localhost ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_utf8 5697 1
rfcomm 33233 0
l2cap 21953 9 rfcomm
bluetooth 48165 4 rfcomm,l2cap
autofs4 20293 2
fuse 41301 3
sunrpc 149213 3
nf_conntrack_ipv4 11589 12
ipt_REJECT 7361 2
iptable_filter 6337 1
ip_tables 14085 1 iptable_filter
nf_conntrack_ftp 10721 0
nf_conntrack_ipv6 16329 12
xt_state 5953 24
nf_conntrack 51713 4 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ftp,nf_conntrack_ip v6,xt_state
xt_tcpudp 6849 28
ip6t_ipv6header 6081 2
ip6t_REJECT 8001 2
ip6table_filter 6209 1
ip6_tables 14981 2 ip6t_ipv6header,ip6table_filter
x_tables 14149 7 ipt_REJECT,ip_tables,xt_state,xt_tcpudp,ip6t_ipv6h eader,ip6t_REJECT,ip6_tables
cpufreq_ondemand 10317 1
acpi_cpufreq 12365 2
dm_mirror 21569 0
dm_multipath 18505 0
dm_mod 49029 2 dm_mirror,dm_multipath
ipv6 228357 18 nf_conntrack_ipv6,ip6t_REJECT
snd_hda_intel 297441 4
snd_usb_audio 79681 0
snd_usb_lib 18241 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 22465 1 snd_usb_lib
snd_seq_dummy 6725 0
snd_seq_oss 31553 0
arc4 5825 2
snd_seq_midi_event 9665 1 snd_seq_oss
ecb 6593 2
snd_seq 48945 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
blkcipher 9285 1 ecb
snd_seq_device 10317 4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 44353 0
snd_mixer_oss 17217 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 70981 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss
iwl3945 156469 0
nvidia 7816064 36
uvcvideo 49349 0
snd_timer 21317 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
sdhci 17861 0
snd_page_alloc 11593 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
video 19921 14
snd_hwdep 10693 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio
compat_ioctl32 5185 1 uvcvideo
output 6721 1 video
mac80211 190645 1 iwl3945
i2c_i801 11985 0
snd 48325 19 snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmid i,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device ,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_h wdep
videodev 27713 1 uvcvideo
mmc_core 44357 1 sdhci
firewire_ohci 21573 0
battery 12997 0
ac 8005 0
button 10321 0
ricoh_mmc 6977 0
v4l1_compat 15813 2 uvcvideo,videodev
firewire_core 36809 1 firewire_ohci
tg3 102853 0
v4l2_common 18497 2 uvcvideo,videodev
pcspkr 6465 0
i2c_core 21057 2 nvidia,i2c_i801
soundcore 9505 2 snd
cfg80211 26441 2 iwl3945,mac80211
iTCO_wdt 13797 0
crc_itu_t 5953 1 firewire_core
joydev 12545 0
dcdbas 10337 0
iTCO_vendor_support 6981 1 iTCO_wdt
sg 32209 0
sr_mod 17381 1
cdrom 33761 1 sr_mod
ata_piix 17861 1
ahci 25541 2
libata 128561 2 ata_piix,ahci
sd_mod 26689 3
scsi_mod 123341 4 sg,sr_mod,libata,sd_mod
ext3 111945 1
jbd 40533 1 ext3
mbcache 10049 1 ext3
uhci_hcd 23633 0
ohci_hcd 22725 0
ehci_hcd 32333 0


and the lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS (rev a1)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

[notageek]

Thanks for the post, could you please post the output of

# rpm -qa |grep -i alsa

[jimjag]

Thanks sure here it is

[Jimjag@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa |grep -i alsa
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.14-5.fc8
alsa-lib-1.0.15-1.fc8
alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.3.rc1.fc8.2
alsa-utils-1.0.15-1.fc8
bluez-utils-alsa-3.20-6.fc8
python-alsaaudio-0.3-1.fc8
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.15-1.fc8

[notageek]

Okay, I see that you're using ICH8 Audio device, you have the latest alsa modules installed, and you're able to play audio in your older kernel.

I found this post which has similar issue as your's
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=180218

I don't think you have an issue with pulse audio though, however you may have your sound card set in digital mode.

Try changing it to analog mode with system-config-soundcard and try the fixes suggested in the thread I posted. Let us know how it went.