Sound Stopped Working [solved]

[menendez]

I installed Mandriva 3 days ago.

Sound was fine but it suddenly stopped.

I searched around the forum for related threads but found no solution.

 

One thread said to run lspci and post output.

Here it is:

00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)

 

Another thread said to run alsaconfig as root from terminal window.

I tried that and got command not found.

 

Please Help

Edited August 28, 2007 by menendez

[ianw1974]

What alsa packages do you have installed?

 

rpm -qa | grep -i alsa

 

as we can then identify why alsaconf didn't work.

[arctic]

Do not try alsaconfig now but alsamixer (I guess the system is simply muted), adjust the sound settings and then

aslactl store

If you wonder that a command is not found then check if it exists at all. Type the first letter(s) of the command in question in the terminal (e.g. alsa), then hit the tab key twice. The terminal will list then all commands that begin with e.g. alsa. ;)

[menendez]

What alsa packages do you have installed?

 

rpm -qa | grep -i alsa

 

as we can then identify why alsaconf didn't work.

 

[jose@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i alsa

libalsa2-1.0.14-2.rc3.2mdv2007.1

alsa-utils-1.0.14-1.rc2.1mdv2007.1

libalsa-data-1.0.14-2.rc3.2mdv2007.1

libalsa-oss0-1.0.12-1mdv2007.0

[jose@localhost ~]$ su

Password:

[root@localhost jose]# uname -r

2.6.17-13mdvlegacy

[root@localhost jose]#

 

 

Here is a theory. I think I may have downloaded the wrong kernel source files. I say this because shortly after I got the new updates available for your system message. I have been accepting all updates. Then my boot menu was expanded to include 2 new entries:

linux-legacy (/boot/vmlinuz-legacy)

legacy 2.6.17-14 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-14mdvlegacy)

I have no clue why these appeared or what they are for. But perhaps they messed up the installed packages.

Thanks for the help.

[menendez]

Do not try alsaconfig now but alsamixer (I guess the system is simply muted), adjust the sound settings and then

aslactl store

If you wonder that a command is not found then check if it exists at all. Type the first letter(s) of the command in question in the terminal (e.g. alsa), then hit the tab key twice. The terminal will list then all commands that begin with e.g. alsa. ;)

 

Success?? I started alsamixer from thee terminal window and read its wikipedia page to figure out what I am doing.

the item labeled PCM was muted so I turned uo the volume on that and sound returns.

I also figured out that "alsactl store" only works if you are su.

Thanks !!