Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 14 June 2007, Dale wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I upgraded my kernel the other day and now I have no sound at all. I >> have checked Alsamixer and Kmix to make sure it is not muted and it >> >> appears to be turned up there. This is lspci: >> >>> 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 >>> (rev 0a) >>> >> I have this built into my kernel: >> >>> <*> Emu10k1 (SB Live!, Audigy, E-mu APS) >>> >> I copied my old .config over and did a make oldconfig but it has the >> same setup as before. I just don't have any sound at all. I did >> make sure my speakers are powered on, plugged into the puter and >> everything I checked says it is unmuted. Maybe I missed one though. >> >> The kernel version that works is gentoo-sources-2.6.18-r6, the one >> that does _not_ work is gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8 if that will help. >> >> I did boot my old kernel, the 18 version, and the sound works fine. >> If I boot the new 20 version, nothing. Kernel problem or am I >> missing something? >> > > I had a similar thing, no sound with any kernel after .18 > > My card is not the same as yours so my exact solution won't work for > you. What I did was note which modules were loaded, then run alsaconf > and let it do it's thing. Note which new modules it loaded and put > those in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 > > It appeared to be that the modules dependency information changed with > my driver around .18 and the earlier config just didn't cut it anymore. > Of course, I could also be completely wrong :-) > > alan > >
Thanks for the info but I build everything in the kernel. I never liked modules. I suspect that something did change about the kernel though. I may just stick with the older kernel for now and try another version later. Still open to ideas though. Thanks Dale :-) :-)
