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a strange problem, when i ran the install of FC3 onto my laptop, it played the sound that it should to test the sound card asking if i was happy, the answer was a resounding YES as I heard the sound through the left, then right then both speakers as normal. BUT after the install has finished and I am using the sytem normally, I now get no sound at all, the soundcard autodetector tells me I have an SIS Sound Controller using driver snd-intel8X0 but will not play any sound from it and tells me sound is not available as I did not hear anything. I have checked alsamixer and nothing is muted. I am utterly confused as to why it found it and made it work during install but not now. anyone had or heard of this problem before and can throw some light (or maybe sound) onto the problem?
many thanks
I have just been to the website or my laptop manufacturer and the soundcard installed is a SoundMAX AC'97 Audio Controller
You wouldn't happen to be running an HP nx9600 laptop would you? :-) This sounds very familliar. With a few variations, I had the same problem under FC4. I added 'snd-intel8x0m' to the end of /etc/hotplug/blacklist to remove confusion between the modem and the sound. That made it work. It might be a differn't file for FC3 though.
Thanks I shall have a look and let you know how it goes, I know it is not the mute as I have checked all the settings in alsa-mixer and nothing is muted, unless it is back to front and i have to mute it to make it work. we shall see
I decided to boot up the old kernel and the sound works perfectly, booting it back into the new kernel ( updated using yum) the sound no longer works, do you think booting the old kernel again and going through an upgrade again might solve the problem??
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