FC5->FC6 upgrade broke my sound

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon Dec 11 21:18:10 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 15:10 -0500, Don Levey wrote:
> While I know other similar issues have been discussed recently, I've not
> found in them a solution to my problem.  I've got through over 40,000
> messages in the past day or so, so I hope I didn't miss anything...
> 
> Sound on my AC97 was working just fine through FC5.  When upgrading to
> FC6, though, I get nothing.  It *thinks* it is playing: the equalizer
> visualisation in Amarok shows it is playing sound,
> system-config-soundcard finds my card, but I can't hear anything.
> 
> I know that the hardware itself works; booting off of a kubuntu LiveCD
> gives me sound.  I know enough to know that I don't know enough; here is
> a link to output from:
> 	lsmod | grep snd
> 	lspci
> 	dmesg
> as well as my modprobe.conf file.  Where else should I look?
> http://www.the-leveys.us:6080/problems/sound/
> 
>  -Don Levey

Also look for external amplifier to see if changing that makes a
difference.  It was necessary to turn this on for my laptop.




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