On Friday 18 May 2007 18:37, Ric Moore wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 17:11 +0200, Christian Menzel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The sound in my FC6 installation was workings since I installed it in Oct > > 2006. Now it suddenly stopped working and I'm not aware of changing > > anything. I get no error messages from the audio applications like xmms > > or mplayer when I try to play audio. They show the normal behaviour, I > > just don't hear anything. > > > > The soundcard is OK, when I boot Knoppix from DVD, sound is working > > > > The mixer is not muted, system-config-soundcard won't help, the > > modules are loaded. > > > > Is there any configuration I can reset? Or should I just wait for FC7 > > and reinstall the whole stuff? I'm desperate... > > When I got REALLY desperate, I'd powerdown, unplug the card, reboot, let > the system deal with no sound card for a bit, making sure > that /etc/modprobe.conf was empty of sound card module info (or better > yet comment them out) then shutdown and carefully re-insert it, reboot > and Voila`! Woot! ...der it is! The hardware dingus would automatically > detect and install it brand new. It's a bit *ExTrEmE* but worked for me > in a royal pinch when I was at wit's end. Ric > -- Now just where did you find that word "dingus"? The last time I heard that was from a Belgian friend, who used it when he couldn't find the correct english word for something. Nigel.
