Guest graflok Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 I have Mandrake 10.1 (KDE) running on a P4 with an Intel type 810 sound card. The sound has been working fine for years but it suddenly went dead just after I tried a Live CD (DreamLinux) though this live CD is not supposed to do anything to my existing installation. If I re-boot with the Live CD the sound does work but not if I boot into 10.1 Adjusting KMix does nothing. Any ideas where to start sorting this out? thanks, graflok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 What I normally do first is rename the /etc/asound.state then reboot (tried just relogging in but this didn't work for me). Once logged in a new asound.state should be auto generated & I then have sound. The only time this happens to me is when my system freezes up & I have to switch the power off/on. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest graflok Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Thanks for the reply but I don't have a file named asound.state anywhere. g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 hmm.. could you as root in a terminal run the following command touch /etc/asound.state then reboot & see if that helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest graflok Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Nope -- no change. g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joaopa Posted January 20, 2007 Report Share Posted January 20, 2007 in root, alsaconf -restore and then alsaconf -store should help with kmix, check if the sound level is not zero !!!! Joaopa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest graflok Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 I don't have alsaconf. Is there another way? g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joaopa Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 urpmi alsa-utils should install it..... Joaopa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest graflok Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 OK, I've installed alsa-utils but trying: alsaconf -restore or alsaconf -store only produce error msg: "invalid option" g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joaopa Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 OUPPPSSSSSS alsactl restore alsactl store should work. Sorry for the trouble Joaopa (after don't forget to look at kmix to see whether the sound is unmuted!!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest graflok Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 (edited) It seems i've misidentified the source of my problem. My sound is only misbehaving in Firefox. It works otherwise. It's really a Flash/Firefox issue. I recently updated Flash and that was what caused my sound to stop working in Firefox. Googling reveals this is a pretty widespread problem. There are a number of solutions suggested but they don't appear to work for everyone. I'm still looking into it. Thanks for all the suggestions. g Edited January 28, 2007 by graflok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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