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vaderixor

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Registered: 2009-04-07

Posts: 14

Sound stopped working, sound card not detected

I've been using OSS for a while and a couple days ago sound stopped working.
I'm not sure what I upgraded then, but I suspect that I upgraded udev.
I've tried reinstalling OSS, restarting it, unloading and reloading the module, and downgrading udev to 146-2.
Here is the output of ossmix:

Mixer device 0 has no functionality

Output of ossinfo:

Version info: OSS 4.2 (b 2002/200912291752) (0x00040100) GPL
Platform: Linux/x86_64 2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 9 15:12:10 CET 2010 (zach-laptop)

Number of audio devices:   0
Number of audio engines:   0
Number of MIDI devices:    0
Number of mixer devices:   0


Device objects
 0: osscore0 OSS core services
 1: oss_usb0 USB audio core services

MIDI devices (/dev/midi*)

Mixer devices

Audio devices

Nodes

Output of soundoff, or /etc/rc.d/oss stop:

No mixers in the system

Contents of soundon.log:
http://pastebin.ca/1807443

I really like OSS and I don't want to switch back to ALSA.

EDIT: It seems that my soundcard isn't detected at all

hwinfo: http://sprunge.us/EYBE

lshw: http://sprunge.us/jIIB

lsmod: http://sprunge.us/gXHU

lspci: http://sprunge.us/CCfV

hwdetect: http://sprunge.us/DTJG

Last edited by vaderixor (2010-02-27 22:20:44)

badger101101

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Registered: 2008-03-27

Posts: 20

Re: Sound stopped working, sound card not detected

It stopped working for me as well, but I don't have the same problem you do.

I don't know what is causing your problem, but perhaps vmix isn't running?  Try this: 

vmixctl attach /dev/dsp

vaderixor

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Registered: 2009-04-07

Posts: 14

Re: Sound stopped working, sound card not detected

It stopped working for me as well, but I don't have the same problem you do.

I don't know what is causing your problem, but perhaps vmix isn't running?  Try this: 

vmixctl attach /dev/dsp

OSS isn't detecting my soundcard at all.  I tried using ALSA and alsaconf was unable to find my soundcard either.
I also installed kernel26-lts but I still have the same problem.  I think that my problem either came from udev, or the move from klibc to busybox.
I installed udev-compat but that hasn't helped either. I can't downgrade because mkinitcpio depends on the newest udev.

The output to

vmixctl attach /dev/dsp

is

/dev/dsp: No such file or directory

vaderixor

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Registered: 2009-04-07

Posts: 14

Re: Sound stopped working, sound card not detected

bump
I really want to fix this

jasonwryan

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Re: Sound stopped working, sound card not detected

Posting it all over the forums won't help your cause...

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s2

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Registered: 2010-03-27

Posts: 7

Re: Sound stopped working, sound card not detected

vaderixor, what is the name of your sound card?

Could you show output of "lshal" also?

s2

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Registered: 2010-03-27

Posts: 7

Re: Sound stopped working, sound card not detected

Could you show output of "lshal" also?

Well, I see it's content in hwinfo log.  So please skip this question.

The first one still matters. 

As HAL doesn't see the card, I suggest you checking output of dmesg (soon after reboot). 
This way you will check whether kernel detects / loads drivers for it.
If it doesn't, then kernel is to blame.

If it does, then probably HAL/UDev is the the culprit.