No sound after upgrading to RHEL4.4

[marinelli at wiener.iam.uni-bonn.de]

I have no solution to offer, I apologize, but I just wanted to say that I
have no sound working on the same machine (Precision 380) running Ubuntu
6.06...Has perhaps anyone figured out what the issue is?
Thanks,
Carlo



> Gary,
>
> 	That RPM should have worked, silly question did you make sure
> the audio is not muted using alsamixer or that the on-board audio isn't
> turned off in BIOS.
>
> Roger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-precision-bounces at dell.com
> [mailto:linux-precision-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Gary Gatling
> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:35 PM
> To: linux-precision-Lists
> Subject: RE: No sound after upgrading to RHEL4.4
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm afriad that didn't work. My system now thinks its sound card is a
> snd-hda-intel within system-config-soundcard. And I can't hear a test
> sound from within the program.
>
> I am going to re-install my box to get back to my original
> configuration.
> Any other suggestions for getting the audio to work on Precision 380
> workstations after getting RHEL 4 update 4?
>
> Thanks,
>
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 Rogelio_Noriega at Dell.com wrote:
>
>> Try this RPM it should fix your problem.
>>
> http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en
>>
> &s=biz&releaseid=R109066&SystemID=LATITUDE%20PRECISION%20690&os=LIN4&osl
>>
> =en&deviceid=8907&devlib=0&typecnt=1&vercnt=1&formatcnt=1&libid=3&fileid
>> =141621
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-precision-bounces at dell.com
>> [mailto:linux-precision-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Gary Gatling
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:19 AM
>> To: linux-precision-Lists
>> Subject: No sound after upgrading to RHEL4.4
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I have noticed that sound stopped working on my precsion 380
> workstation
>>
>> after RHEL 4 update 4. I'm pretty sure it was working before the
> update.
>>
>> Here is my  /etc/modprobe.conf (Some lines wrapped though)
>>
>> alias eth0 tg3
>> alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
>> alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
>> alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
>> alias snd-card-0 snd-azx
>> options snd-card-0 index=0
>> install snd-azx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-azx &&
>> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>> remove snd-azx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
>> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-azx
>>
>> Soundcard detection via system-config-soundcard finds the snd_azx card
>> but
>> I hear no sound from the test. Sound works fine on the Precision 370.
>> Its
>> only the 380 workstation that is affected.
>>
>> This is runninng kernel 2.6.9-42.ELsmp x86_64.
>>
>> We have about 65 of these Precision 380 workstations running RHEL 4.4
> in
>>
>> various public computing labs in the College of Engineering at NCSU.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Gary Gatling      | ITECS Systems
>> ITECS, BOX 7901   | Technology Support Analyst
>> NCSU, Raleigh, NC | Email: gsgatlin at eos dot ncsu dot edu
>> 27695-7901        | Phone: (919) 513-4572 (5B Page Hall)
>>
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>
> Gary Gatling      | ITECS Systems
> ITECS, BOX 7901   | Technology Support Analyst
> NCSU, Raleigh, NC | Email: gsgatlin at eos dot ncsu dot edu
> 27695-7901        | Phone: (919) 513-4572 (5B Page Hall)
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