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phunni

Member

From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 787

Soundcard disappeared!

I rebooted my machine this morning and then noticed I had no sound.  I tried to restart alsa and was told that there wasn't a valid soundcard...

dmesg output includes the following:

AC'97 0 does not respond - RESET
AC'97 0 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer.
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:01:0a.0 disabled
EMU10K1_Audigy: probe of 0000:01:0a.0 failed with error -5

I did do an upgrade this morning, but I don't think any of the packages are relevant to sound - although here's the contents of pacman.log for today, just in case:

[04/19/07 08:46] installed vorbis-tools (1.1.1-5)
[04/19/07 15:42] synchronizing package lists
[04/19/07 15:43] starting full system upgrade
[04/19/07 15:44] removed rar (3.6.0-1)
[04/19/07 15:44] upgraded unrar (3.7.3-1 -> 3.7.3-1)
[04/19/07 15:44] upgraded freetype2 (2.3.3-2 -> 2.3.4-1)
[04/19/07 15:44] upgraded gstreamer0.10-good (0.10.5-1 -> 0.10.5-2)
[04/19/07 15:44] upgraded libidn (0.6.10-1 -> 0.6.11-1)

Does anyone have any ideas?  Is this a hardware problem - or can I fix it with configs...?

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Soundcard disappeared!

Probably you are using the latest kernel and just rebooted with it. Several people are having sound problem with it. The devs are aware about that.

There's several forum threads about that. I don't know if there a solution for it but meanwhile you could use another kernel like beyond if you need sound.

aRcHaTe

Member

Registered: 2006-10-24

Posts: 646

Re: Soundcard disappeared!

Probably you are using the latest kernel and just rebooted with it. Several people are having sound problem with it. The devs are aware about that.

There's several forum threads about that. I don't know if there a solution for it but meanwhile you could use another kernel like beyond if you need sound.

thats why im doing....:(...my guess the problm comes from the patches.....dunno...im still trying to figure it out

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Its a sick world we live in....

phunni

Member

From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 787

Re: Soundcard disappeared!

Probably you are using the latest kernel and just rebooted with it. Several people are having sound problem with it. The devs are aware about that.

There's several forum threads about that. I don't know if there a solution for it but meanwhile you could use another kernel like beyond if you need sound.

I'm pretty certain that this isn't the cause of my problem - for the simple reason that I hadn't updated my kernel - although I since have.  I am sure that I didn't because I have pacman configured to not autoupdate my kernel and I do it manually.

As I say, I have updated it since the initial problem, so I may also be falling foul of the general sound problems, but, since I hadn't updated the kernel when the problems first arose, I think that something else may be wrong...

OutOfPhase

Member

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2007-03-13

Posts: 33

Re: Soundcard disappeared!

Did you open your computer case to check if it's still there?

/joke