I had my headphones on when I scratched something off my t.v. screen. When I touched the screen, I heard crackles/pops in my headphones, I think some more coming from elsewhere, but I'm not sure. But now my sound will not work. The device is working just fine, I went through this trouble shooting guide (towards the bottom) of this howto (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml, but still a no go. I did my lsmod to see if my modules were there, and they were. I remembered I finished updating new files in etc, after an emerge --update --deep world, but that shouldn't have done much of anything, since what I read that I was changing, didn't seem to be of any importance to sound. I also tried the latest kernel, but to no avail.

Could I have fuxored my onboard sound with me touching a t.v. screen?

Any ideas?

lsmod, lspci | grep audio, dmesg, kernel modules(soundcore, snd_hda_intel, etc) are all there, listened through my onboard speakers & headphones, rebooted several times, ran alsaconf, alsamixer, aumix, used gnomes esd, tried madplay/ogg123/mplayer/totem/cdda-player/gnome-cd.

No errors are given when I run in gnome. Even when I mix around in the mixer settings.

Any suggestions? Or confirmations of what I think happened?

If you heard cracking sounds from your headphones then I would say yeah, you probably fuxxored something in your mobo

Tv's create a lot of static unfortunately.

Hrm. Thanks for the help, I still have warranty.

Try booting with live cd, see if sound works with other distro.