No sound after upgrading to RHEL4.4

[Harlan Harris]

I have a very similar problem as Mr. Gatling. I have a Precision 380n 
that had (after much trials and tribulations) working sound with RHEL WS 
4 u3, but the recent upgrade broke sound. I have installed the new 
version of snd-hda-intel, rebooted, and got almost the same results. I 
don't get the "wrong card index" errors, but neither do I get a peep out 
of the speakers.

alsaunmute and alsamixer go through the motions, and I get no errors 
while trying to play anything, but no joy.

Here's some output for your perusal...

# /bin/alsaunmute 0 -v
Card 0 Driver snd_azx...
Unmuting ...
Play. Switch master(0) to 1
Play. Volume master(0) to 23
Play. Switch master(1) to 1
Play. Volume master(1) to 23
Unmuting snd_azx...

# system-config-soundcard
Card 0 Driver snd_azx...
Unmuting ...
Play. Switch master(0) to 1
Play. Volume master(0) to 23
Play. Switch master(1) to 1
Play. Volume master(1) to 23
Unmuting snd_azx...
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav' : 
Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo

# more /etc/modprobe.conf
alias scsi_hostadapter ahci
alias eth0 tg3
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


Please advise...! Thanks,

 -Harlan


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Harlan Harris
Post-Doctoral Research Scientist
Department of Psychology
New York University
harlan.harris at nyu.edu