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

[Gwen Morse]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Gwen Morse wrote:
>
>> alsaconf isn't on my system and checking google quickly it seems to
>> be deprecated. Howvever, alsactl was listed as a possible
>> alternative. It runs and tells me I have no sound cards installed.
>
> I've read through this thread and I think I grew three grey hairs
> just thinking about it. My son and I each have a shiny nickel that
> we're willing to bet that no matter how this all turns out, it would
> probably be quicker, easier, and less painful to reinstall the
> operating system than to try to sort that out. (: (: (:
>
> P.S. Tell your husband that's he's one up on me since I once wiped
> out an entire partition (that wasn't backed up!) on a friend's
> computer quite by accident while trying to be helpful. (:

LOL - yeah. Even worse, hubby has broken stuff in the past and is
under strict orders to not add/remove *anything*.

It's probably quicker and easier to just start clean but I have a
bunch of stuff I really don't want to have to sweat through "again".
Upgrading to Crossover 11 just killed my Crossover 10 install and I
reinstalled about 20 games by hand. I spent several weeks tweaking
things before I left on my trip and my lappy was just humming along. I
was even getting comfortable with the new Gnome desktop.

I typoed earlier, I only have Fedora 15, not 16. If I run an upgrade
CD for Fedora 16 or 17, will it manually detect all hardware or will
just use the the existing settings?

My bluetooth card module seems to be missing as well. Hubby says he
didn't touch that, and I have a separate nagging feeling it wasn't
working before I left on my trip. I had the motherboard replaced and I
*think* I had the thought that they must have sent a motherboard with
a different bluetooth card. So it would be nice to have some way of
forcing hardware detection across the whole system. Not sure if
upgrades do that or only fresh installs.

I will also try to hunt down alsa-tools 1.0.24.2. I have 1.0.24.1 (yum
reports it as the most recent for Fedora 15) and there's no alsaconf in it.