Where did my sound go?
 

I just recently upgraded my laptop from Redhat 9 to mandrake 9.2 I am using an IBM Thinkpad A30, Pentium III, 512mb of Ram.

When i had Redhat, while it was good, there was a lot of stuff i did not like, but at least my sound card worked and i had screensavers.

Now i just installed Mandrak 9.2 on my laptop. I tried to install everything for the Os. by selecting the individual packages for Mandrake. I installed everything except the other language support for openoffice.

But, now that my laptop is up and running, I have no sound except the System Bell. I also seem to have no screensavers.

For the sound card i do have the Arts starting at KDE startup (thats what i use).

I "think" my sound card was detected correctly, at least when i booted of the CD and i fiddled with the sound card i seemed to do a lot of damage, because the computer stopped booting up, and only display "Li" follow by filling half the screen up with "99" over and over again.


I don't know....if you need more info let me know i will get it for you.

You could help by posting what your sound card is (if you don't know, try "lspci" or "cat /proc/pci"). You should also check your kernel version and the output of "lsmod"

Bus 0, device 31, function 5:
Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 1).
IRQ 11.
I/O at 0x1c00 [0x1cff].
I/O at 0x18c0 [0x18ff].


I think is what you mean by sound card correct?

[root@localhost stephen]# /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
autofs4 11412 2 (autoclean)
parport_pc 25544 1 (autoclean)
lp 8160 0 (autoclean)
parport 34472 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
radeon 108512 14
agpgart 48292 3 (autoclean)
i810_audio 25692 0
ac97_codec 15828 0 [i810_audio]
soundcore 6340 0 [i810_audio]
nfsd 75280 8 (autoclean)
ds 8500 2
yenta_socket 13088 2
pcmcia_core 57696 0 [ds yenta_socket]
af_packet 14856 1 (autoclean)
ip_vs 70188 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 19384 0 (autoclean)
ide-floppy 16128 0 (autoclean)
ide-tape 48816 0 (autoclean)
ide-cd 33956 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 32608 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd]
floppy 55932 0
scsimon 9312 0 (unused)
e100 52776 1 (autoclean)
usb-storage 91616 0
supermount 84032 2 (autoclean)
usbmouse 2936 0 (unused)
keybdev 2756 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 106176 3 [sr_mod scsimon usb-storage]
mousedev 5428 1
hid 24164 0 (unused)
input 5696 0 [usbmouse keybdev mousedev hid]
printer 8576 0
usb-uhci 25136 0 (unused)
usbcore 74988 1 [usb-storage usbmouse hid printer usb-uhci]
rtc 9004 0 (autoclean)
ext3 60048 2
jbd 39264 2 [ext3]

hmmmm. Your sound modules seem to be running. The only other thing I can think of is that your sound might be muted. Try running "aumix" (it might be in the menu or you might have to run it from an xterm) to check. If that doesn't work, you could try installing alsa (www.alsa-project.org). I did a quick check of their site and they claim to support your chipset.

thanks,

I'll let you know the results.

um...i hate to be such a pain, but i can;t find aumix....does it have a different name...or is that the actual command name that you use?

I had the same problem as yourself.

Here's how I fixed it:

I opened a terminal and used urpmi.

urpmi sndconfig

Then

urpmi aumix

Type "aumix" in a terminal or select it by going to Multimedia>Sound>Aumix

Set your volume as needed.

hey!

thanks that worked for real for real..


Sweet...i now have sound

I...Am...UNSTOPPABLE!!!

or at least until the next problem i can;t solve

I am experiancing the no sound issue as well. In harddrake my Conexant AUdio Riptde sound card is recognized although under module it say unknown.

I followed the instructions quted above and when I go to Multimedia>Sound>Aummix it shows that Aumix is starting and then nothing. Not sure what Im doing wrong.
Thanks,
quest

@questone: have you tried looking the hcl (hardware compatibility list) for your card? maybe you need some special drivers.

@devilbrigade: you should install mandrake 10. The screensavers are not buggy and for me overall it's a lot faster.

Yeah i just downloaded Mandrak 10 Community ISO torrent. But i am not putting it on my laptop until i get it set up and working on another computer first...i speak too much time getting mandrake 9 right where i want it.

any way i got the sound working, and my screensavers loaded,
got my wireless card working, my cd burner burning and my dvd player playing...i am not about to rock this boat.

I've got a Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Value and it worked on Mandrake 9.1. I upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 (with much tribulation, sound just one of many) and have not heard a peep from my sound card. I've done all of the above, to no avail. I did save my old 9.1 /etc/* folder. Maybe my old module.conf (conf.modules?) will have a clue.

Here's my lsmod:

[]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
isofs 27956 0 (autoclean)
emu10k1 62316 1
ac97_codec 15540 0 [emu10k1]
sound 70280 0 [emu10k1]
soundcore 6244 0 [emu10k1 sound]
sg 34588 0 (autoclean) (unused)
agpgart 53092 3 (autoclean)
nvidia 2124512 6 (autoclean)
parport_pc 25544 1 (autoclean)
lp 7712 0 (autoclean)
parport 34568 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
af_packet 14312 1 (autoclean)
ide-floppy 15776 0 (autoclean)
ide-tape 48240 0 (autoclean)
ide-cd 33092 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 34048 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
floppy 55644 0
tulip 43136 1 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 3484 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp850 4284 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11948 1 (autoclean)
fat 38424 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
supermount 81888 1 (autoclean)
usb-storage 93088 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 107360 1 [sg usb-storage]
printer 8896 0
usb-uhci 24976 0 (unused)
usbcore 75148 1 [usb-storage printer usb-uhci]
rtc 8652 0 (autoclean)

I changed the snd-emu10k1 to emu10k1 via hardware configuration, no change.

Any help will be rewarded with a case of (enter your favorite reward here).

What finally worked for me on Fedora Core 1 was compiling with this statement:

./configure --with-cards=au8820 --with-snd-card=au8820 --with-sequencer=yes --with-isapnp=no --with-oss=yes

The card is the aureal au8820.

Even get desktop sound.