Hi, I have debian linux and a nf7 motherboard with built in sound. For the past few days i was able to play sound in xmms, xine, vlc, and so on. This was even after I updated to unstable. I just updated again to be up to date and kde 3.3 got installed (kde 3.2 was installed before). Right after the update, I was unable to get any sound to work (under every DM and WM I have [kde, gnome, fvwm), I tried sndconfig and it said that the onboard sound wasn't in its database so I couldn't use that. I have the drivers installed and I'm currently using kernel 2.4.26-1-386. Oh, by the way, the onboard sound is nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler.

How do I get my sound back?

have you checked if that module/driver is loaded with lsmod; ? Maybe you can use use modprobe to get it loaded again.
does `lsmod | grep snd``lsmod | grep audio` produce results?

I think the "module/driver" is loaded within lsmod, i see:
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
sg 29420 0 (autoclean) (unused)
nls_cp437 4284 2 (autoclean)
ntfs 46144 2 (autoclean)
input 3040 0 (autoclean)
apm 8680 1 (autoclean)
af_packet 12072 1 (autoclean)
ehci-hcd 15592 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 17000 0 (unused)
usbcore 54240 1 [ehci-hcd usb-ohci]
i810_audio 22616 0
ac97_codec 11624 0 [i810_audio]
soundcore 3300 2 [i810_audio]
ide-scsi 8688 0
scsi_mod 87192 2 [sg ide-scsi]
tulip 37888 0 (unused)
crc32 2880 0 [tulip]
forcedeth 8492 1
dm-mod 38520 0 (unused)
ide-cd 28608 0
cdrom 25696 0 [ide-cd]
rtc 6492 0 (autoclean)
ext3 69548 1 (autoclean)
jbd 36640 1 (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect 288 0 (autoclean) (unused)
pdc202xx_old 10400 1 (autoclean)
ide-disk 13056 4 (autoclean)
amd74xx 9924 1 (autoclean)
ide-core 96876 4 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd ide-detect pdc202xx_old ide-disk amd74xx]
unix 13704 146 (autoclean)

I tryed modprobe with the ac97 codec and soundcore but nothing happend, still no sound.
other then that, lsmod | grep snd doesnt produce any results.

i810_audio 22616 0
ac97_codec 11624 0 [i810_audio]
soundcore 3300 2 [i810_audio]

Tells me there are some sound modules loaded. But maybe you should try others? I once had a siilar issue and I choose a driver for a different mother board that was close to mine and it worked. Good luck'

so the only way to get my sound back is to install drivers from a different mobo? There isnt another way?

I'm not saying that's the only way. I'm not saying this is correct way either. I'm saying that's what I did a year back to fix sound on a box.

ok, i will try to find a driver that may match my mobos and install them, thanks for your help micxz

oh, to add more to this, when i us xmms it gives me a error saying:
"** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Device or resource busy"

In the past, all i had to do was go to kcontrol>sound and multimedia> sound system. and then check "auto-suspend if idle after (3 seconds)" This has been a prob for a bit, but normally after the 3 seconds the sound would play. but now xmms always gets that message even after kde lets go of control.

Ok, i booted in knoppix for a dual boot i was going to do and i saw my sound was in the lsmod, so i went to modconf, removed it, and put it back in. after doing so, my sound came back

Great news'