Sound Went Away...

[Kent Borg]

Sometime within the last few days my sound quit working.  I rebooted,
still gone.  I looked at my notes to see what I might have changed and
nothing jumps out.

Some clues:

  $ alsamixer 
  
  alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
  $ cat /proc/asound/modules 
   0 snd_intel8x0
  $ lspci
  00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
  00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
  00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
  00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
  00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
  00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
  00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
  00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04)
  00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 04)
  00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
  00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
  00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
  06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
  06:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection (rev 05)
  06:05.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 8d)
  06:05.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 13)
  $ ls -l /dev/audio
  crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 2007-07-31 16:10 /dev/audio

Wondering about that I tried:

  # chmod 666 /dev/audio 

Still no sound.  Logout, login, and still no sound.  HOWEVER: before
logging in I get that little drum sound Feisty plays.  The kernel
knows how to talk to my sound hardware, but not once Gnome launchs?
Did I munge some Gnome ~/.<whatever> file??


Thanks,

-kb, the Kent who has been so pleased with Feisty.


P.S.  Possible related hint: Just noticed today my jpilot syncing also
stopped working in the last few days (last successful sync 23 July),
complaining it can't open the port: "pi_bind error: /dev/ttyUSB1
Permission denied".  Tried playing with permissions in /dev, but the
visor module is creating these things on the fly.  Might be related...