lost all sound on kernel upgrade...help!

papapenguin · l33t Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Bellevue

I upgraded my kernel and lost sound...and alsa can't find any of my modules...

itshotinhere · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2012 Posts: 15

What is your sound card?

try lspci and rebuild kernel with the appropriate module

papapenguin · l33t Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Bellevue

sorry, forgot to include this:

Naib · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:41 pm Post subject:

is the drivers in-kernel or as a module
did you do a "make modules_install"
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papapenguin · l33t Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Bellevue

the drivers are built into the kernel, and I did

itshotinhere · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2012 Posts: 15

Are you compiling your sound card as a module or into the kernel? Is loadable module support enabled in the kernel?

You can load a module manually by running modprobe ${module-name} as root and look at the list of currently loaded modules by running lsmod.

You might want to do a find or a locate on /lib/modules/${kernel-version} for files with a .ko suffix to see if the modules are actually there.

papapenguin · l33t Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Bellevue

my lsmod

itshotinhere · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2012 Posts: 15

Is the nvidia module the module for your sound card? I thought that was the nvidia video driver.

Aquous · l33t Joined: 08 Jan 2011 Posts: 700

If you run alsamixer, does it list any valid outputs? are they muted, by any chance? (be sure to check all your outputs, you can use right arrow key to scroll)

BillWho · Veteran Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 1600 Location: US

papapenguin,

Anything returned with

khayyam · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:19 pm Post subject:

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khayyam · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:38 pm Post subject:

papapenguin · l33t Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Bellevue

thanks Aquous, that was it...my speaker tab in alsamixer was at 00..It may have been because my laptop screen/display broke into a million pieces, and when I took it apart it, I wasn't able to connect the little speaker and volume controls correctly...

khayyam and BillWho...no evasion...no panic...just starting from scratch and trying to solve a problem...
fyi

Jaglover · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:56 pm Post subject:

You are doing it the hard way. The easy way is running alsa-info.sh --pastebin and posting the link here.
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papapenguin · l33t Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Bellevue

Jaglover--thank you...that was the command I was looking for!

http://pastebin.com/s2DJvMZZ
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Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

Start by turning off IEC958 output in alsamixer, it's unlikely you have digital audio connected to the front jack. Turn off auto-mute if that doesn't work. Everything else in there looks sane.