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On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 10:31 +0100, Tony Sumner wrote: > > rather than alsamixer have you used from System Preferences Sound ? > > When I logged on this morning I found alsa still asleep. alsactl init > returned "No soundcards found". So I did (as root) a modprobe snd_cmipci > and the snd modules all came back. alsactl init now returns > > Unknown hardware: "CMI8738-MC6" "CMedia PCI" "" "0x153b" "0x1144" > Hardware is initialized using a guess method > > Why does alsa fade away? Surely this indicates something basically wrong? > aplay says "cannot find card 0" so it is not really back now. > > System -> Preferences -> Sound opens a window that says > Sound theme: no sound (but this just refers to warning sounds doesn't it?) > Hardware just shows an empty window (can't be right!) > Input nothing > Output "dummy output stereo" > > This has got to be a clue. > > And yes I do belong to the audio group. I am sorry this must be trying > your patience. I used to be a fan of Red Hat (version 8 it was) so maybe > I'll switch to Fedora :-) > > Tony > My next trick would be to insert a soundcard in the PCI slot that I know works in Linux (is yours onboard sound?) I may have some here and can post you one if needed. as root do "lspci" and report back or as root "tail -50 /var/log/messages" after booting and see if the hardware is broke. A parallel diagnostic at this point is a different OS run from a "Live Cd" such as "Fedora live" "Mint" or a good one is "Puppy" can be installed to a usb with a utility called Unetbootin. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq