[Techtalk] Sound card gone missing - OSS/ALSA woes

[Anne Wainwright]

Gwen,

Have you checked the bios to see that the onboard card is enabled?

Anne

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:07:04PM +1100, Gwen Morse wrote:
> I left my Fedora 16 laptop in the hands of my minimally techy husband
> while travelling and he's managed to break something.
> 
> Here's what I know...I mentioned before leaving that I had been
> reading about the OSS/ALSA history and was thinking of switching over
> from ALSA to OSS when I got back.
> 
> He decided to "surprise" me by doing it himself. He deleted all the
> ASLA packages and ran an OSS bat file installer. It didn't work (no
> surprise there) and then he went and reinstalled all the ALSA
> packages. It still doesn't work.
> 
> The audio card is listed in lspci, so I know the system still
> recognizes it. It's also listed but greyed out in Phonon (KDE GUI
> sound manager):
> 
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset
> Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
>         Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1a13
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
>         Memory at f6a00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>         Kernel driver in use: oss_hdaudio
> 
> The internal audio analog stereo is also greyed out in Phonon. That
> was my normal fallback when the actual sound card wouldn't work. I do
> see that the oss driver is the one the system is trying to use (kernel
> driver is oss_hdaudio)
> 
> What I'm not sure about is what stage it's at (maybe the OSS install
> was corrupted, maybe it just needs an additional configuration step).
> I haven't done much (possibly any) sound card management and it's been
> a good 5-7 years since I've build modules into a kernel (so those
> skills are a bit rusty).
> 
> At this point I'd like to know how to clean up what hubby did and
> restore ALSA (for now). Then I can read over everything and possibly
> get support directly from the OSS folks (apparently we paid for the
> drivers) when I'm ready.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help provided (or even just taking the time
> to read this).
> 
> Gwen
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