Re: sound problem after updating to kernel-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4

["Aaron Konstam" <akonstam trinity edu>]

> jack wallen wrote:
>> jack wallen wrote:
>>
>>> today i did an update to the kernel listed above. after the update i
>>> rebooted only to discover no sound. i re-ran the soundcard detection
>>> but
>>> to no avail. the card is an onboard via 8237 that was working just fine
>>> before the update.
>>>
>>> i've googled it a bit but have found no mention of this issue.
>>>
>>> anyone have any idea what's going on and how to resolve the problem?
>>>
>>> thank you so much.
>>>
>>>
>> i double checked this, booted into the previous kernel, and sound is
>> working. so this issue IS the most updated kernel.
>>
>>
>>
> I would double-check the modules that you have loaded in each kernel,
> make sure they are identical.
>
This may be irellevant but after updating to the latest kernel I found
that the modules.conf file had definitions of the sound modules to load
followed by a line to remove the sound modules. Once I removed the remove
line sound came back.


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Aaron Konstam
Professor Emeritus, Computer Science
Trinity University
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