i use pclinuxos 09 and i just upgraded all of the software and hardware (i think i opened symantec, and selected mark all upgrades and installed them) after i upgraded my sound isn't working anymore for some reason how do i get it working again i tried everything like restoring the setting to the default settings and still no sound what could be the problem Huh

when i first installed the distro without any updates the sound worked perfectly without any problem (but once and a while the sound doesn't work so i end up restarting the thing and it usually works) but when just won't work anymore especially after restarting the system numerous times i reinstall the distro and it works like always i am tired of doing that now

This is a complete stab in the dark, but it could be that your sound is working but that one application is holding your sound-card open and others can't access it. One solution to this problem is to install a software mixer such as alsa-oss.

In case something is holding your sound card open, you can run this to find out what it is:

There are other options, such as having multiple sound cards/chipsets detected (and the wrong one being used), or having an amplifier setting set to mute, but I would expect those to show up in the configuration tools.

i ran that i think and i couldn't understand it but if there isn't anything running it then what would be my solution here

but how do you run this solution (the one you just mentioned)