[Nottingham] No sound after upgrading to 2.6 kernel

[Dominic]

Hi Dave

Have you tried dropping to a command line and typing 'alsamixer' and
checking that the volume levels are all up?  Alsa is a pain in that the
volume always defaults to muted.

cheers

Dominic

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 20:58 +0000, David Luff wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Since upgrading from kernel 2.4.18 to 2.6.12 I've had no sound.  It worked fine before.  Card is a SoundBlaster Live.  Kernel was upgraded with apt-get - I haven't compiled it.  I've also installed alsa-base and alsa-utils, and rebooted, but to no avail.
> 
> Relevent output from lsmod is:
> 
> emu10k1_gp              3584  0 
> gameport               15304  2 emu10k1_gp
> snd_emu10k1_synth       7424  0 
> snd_emux_synth         37440  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
> snd_seq_virmidi         7616  1 snd_emux_synth
> snd_seq_midi_emul       7424  1 snd_emux_synth
> snd_seq_dummy           3652  0 
> snd_seq_oss            35264  0 
> snd_seq_midi            9184  0 
> snd_seq_midi_event      7808  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq                52688  9 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_emu10k1           118340  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
> snd_rawmidi            25440  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1
> snd_seq_device          8780  8 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
> snd_ac97_codec         82808  1 snd_emu10k1
> snd_pcm_oss            54304  0 
> snd_mixer_oss          19904  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                93320  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer              24644  3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc          9924  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
> snd_util_mem            4544  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
> snd_hwdep               9184  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
> snd                    56324  13 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
> soundcore               9760  1 snd
> 
> I have no idea how to start fixing this - any ideas anyone?
> 
> Cheers - Dave
> 
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