Sound does not work after updating system

[pelon]

Hi,

After updating Fedora Core 3, my sound didnt't work anymore I have no idea why. When I go Applications, and click on Sound and Video and Click on Volume control, I get the following Error saying [Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found.

Can anyone please help me with this problem.

Thanks in advanced,

[radu5er]

Not an uncommon problem I'm afraid.

Did you update the kernel? If so, try booting into your old kernel at the Grub or Lilo boot manager screens and see of that solves your problem.

Try doing a search here for the same problem and maybe you will find some answers.

Good luck.

[pelon]

Yes I did update my Kernel , and I already tried using the old kernel that I had but it stills give me the same error.

Thanks

[latham]

Sound is usually loaded as modules, so the first thing I'd need is the output of
/sbin/lsmod
This will tell me what has been loaded to control your sound and whether or not anything in the hardware has been recognized.

You might also try to summarize what it is you updated. FC2 to FC3? or just some packages in FC3 (which ones)?

I'll be looking for modules that start with "snd_" as well as "snd" and "soundcore" to show up in that output (lsmod, above).

Hmmm... I see radu5er has just posted some useful suggestions ... let me know if you find the answers elsewhere (I did, but I'm moderately fluent with Linux)

[pelon]

This is what I get when doing /sbin/lsmod. and i just updated all of the packages that were in the update manager.

Module Size Used by
parport_pc 26629 1
lp 12077 0
parport 37001 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 23493 0
sunrpc 156325 1
ipt_REJECT 6593 1
ipt_state 1857 1
ip_conntrack 40309 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 3521 1
ip_tables 16321 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
video 15813 0
button 6609 0
battery 9285 0
ac 4805 0
md5 4033 1
ipv6 231681 8
joydev 9217 0
usblp 12225 0
ohci1394 34777 0
ieee1394 300313 1 ohci1394
ohci_hcd 23765 0
ehci_hcd 35273 0
i2c_sis96x 5317 0
i2c_core 20801 1 i2c_sis96x
snd_intel8x0m 18309 0
snd_intel8x0 33249 0
snd_ac97_codec 67489 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 47989 0
snd_mixer_oss 17089 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 93001 4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_ oss
snd_timer 29125 1 snd_pcm
snd 52645 7 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_ oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10017 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9541 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
8139too 26433 0
mii 4673 1 8139too
floppy 57841 0
dm_snapshot 16901 0
dm_zero 2497 0
dm_mirror 23213 2
ext3 116297 2
jbd 69977 1 ext3
dm_mod 55637 6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror

[taylor65]

did you do a system-wide update? if so, it's hard telling which update broke your sound. if possible, re-install your system and don't do system-wide updates.

[jhetrick62]

I had the same problem on a fresh install of FC3 and I had run Mandrake before. I found this page to be dead on in my case and so here is the post that I referred to. He is much more knowledgeable than I but I followed his description of the ALSA adjustments and it worked like a champ.

http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/alsa.shtml

I hope this works for you.

[redflyingpig]

exactly the same problem with you. I've actually seen the suggestion from the above link. But I don't have a "headphone Jack sense" at all. My sound card is snd_via82xx. No solution so far...

[redflyingpig]

I've made it! Try muting IEC958 in volume control, that works for me.

[jhetrick62]

Glad that it worked for you. I didn't have a headphone jack either, it is still a bug in the ALSA. You have to mute those and I suspect the IEC958 is one of the variants.

Even a blind-squirrel finds an acorn and I have found several learning FC3. Conquered Samba today as the security settings don't have the proper ports open after a Samba rpm install? Who would have figured.

Be well.