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jboons

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Registered: 2010-09-25

Posts: 37

[Solved] I broke my sound

I have an ASUS G50Vt laptop. I've been trying to get my headphone jack to work, so I've been editing "/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf" and "/etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf," trying out a few options. Somewhere along the line, I messed up so that ALSA doesn't recognize my sound card. I lost all sound, including sound from my built-in speakers. Anyone have any ideas as to how I can get it back, or start over?

Here's some information that might interest you:

[tom@lappy ~]$ lspci |grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

[tom@lappy ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---

[tom@lappy ~]$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.

[tom@lappy ~]$ ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_hda_codec -> ../../snd_hda_codec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_hwdep -> ../../snd_hwdep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_mixer_oss -> ../../snd_mixer_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_pcm -> ../../snd_pcm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_pcm_oss -> ../../snd_pcm_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_seq -> ../../snd_seq
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_seq_device -> ../../snd_seq_device
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_seq_oss -> ../../snd_seq_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 27 21:00 snd_timer -> ../../snd_timer

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by jboons (2010-09-28 05:34:52)

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,355

Re: [Solved] I broke my sound

You mentioned editing 2 files but don't say what you did, nor do you post their current contents. Revert your changes and see what happens.

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jboons

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Registered: 2010-09-25

Posts: 37

Re: [Solved] I broke my sound

How silly of me.