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

[Adric Net]

Hi Gwen,all

Is kudzu still around in RedHat/Fedora releases? That should do hardware
detection.
Another trick to see if Linux can see your card at all is to run lspic
-vv | more and look for your soundcard and bluetooth card. If they are
there but not in dmesg/alsa then you should get some information about
which chips you have (PCI ID) which may help you track down a driver.

hth,
adric

On 03/14/2012 10:26 AM, Gwen Morse wrote:
> 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.
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