Hello all,
After a flawless install and everything working fine, sound suddenly stop work on my
grandsons’ machine. This is really strange as no updates or changes were made to the system
since the day of the initial install, about a month ago. No sound in firefox or clementine.
This happened on Thursday, and I’ve been trying on and off this weekend the fix the problem.
I updated the system, tried to use pulseaudio, (a desperate move that didn’t work -changed back to alsa),
added aumix, no help there, and even reinstalled any alsa packages the were currently installed,
all to no avail.
The sound card still works if I boot off a live CD, so it’s not a hardware issue.
Now as I’m the only one with the root password, I can’t see any way for him having
changed anything on the system. (The problem is system wide). But lately he’s got on this
kick to press F1 while the machine is booting, as he likes to see the text.
I don’t know if this wacked something or not. Once the problem started he kept constantly
re-booting-- not a good thing.
Here’s my sound card info:
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Identification
Vendor: Creative Labs
Description: [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X
Media class: Multimedia audio controller
Connection
Bus: PCI
PCI domain: 0
Bus PCI #: 2
PCI device #: 9
PCI function #: 0
Vendor ID: 0x1102
Device ID: 0x0006
Sub vendor ID: 0x1102
Sub device ID: 0x1003
Driver
Module: snd_emu10k1x
Alternative drivers: unknown
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Alsaconfig shows that I am using the correct driver.
Alsamixer shows nothing muted.
More info:
lspcidrake -v | fgrep -i AUDIO
snd_emu10k1x : Creative Labs|[SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO]
(vendor:1102 device:0006 subv:1102 subd:1003)
grep sound-slot /etc/modprobe.conf
alias sound-slot-0 snd_emu10k1x
some info from /sbin/lsmod\
snd_emu10k1x 12216 1
snd_rawmidi 15287 2 snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_emu10k1x
snd_ac97_codec 90143 1 snd_emu10k1x
snd_seq_dummy 1135 0
snd_seq_oss 25264 0
snd_seq_midi_event 4648 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 42136 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 4457 4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 33854 0
snd_pcm 60446 4 snd_usb_audio,snd_emu10k1x,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 15383 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss 12981 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd 43189 15 snd_usb_audio,snd_hwdep,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_emu10k1x,
snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,
snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore 5025 1 snd
ac97_bus 850 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_page_alloc 5877 2 snd_emu10k1x,snd_pcm
/sbin/chkconfig --list sound
sound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off 7:off
/sbin/chkconfig --list alsa
alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off 7:off
I'm lost on this one.
Thanks in advance for any help.
