Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade, no sound.

[Dale]

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

:-)  :-)