[ltp] fedora core 3 2.6.10 kernel update issues

[Petr Simon]

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 18:57, Xavier Gonzalez wrote:
> Regarding my inquiry about the sound card: when I had kernel 2.6.10 in
> my computer, it would not play audio files (perhaps it could not play
> video either, I did not check). When I try to do sound detection the
> test would result in no sound, and a pop-up window would tell me that
> the card could not be detected. That is all I have to go by. So, I
> pressumed that the problem was detection.  As a matter of fact, I
> really do not know. All I know, as I said in the previos letter, is
> that rolling back to kernel 2.6.9 the audio files started to work with
> the minor glitch that I've described.
>
> --X
>
Well if you want to give it another chance: sound config uses kudzu to detect 
your soundcard, so you might want to start kudzu from terminal and see what 
it spits out:
$ /usr/sbin/kudzu -p --class=AUDIO
That might good start.
Then is module snd-intel8x0 loaded?
Cheers
petr
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:23:46 +0100, Petr Simon <info@klubko.net> wrote:
> > On Monday 17 January 2005 19:54, Xavier Gonzalez wrote:
> > > I recently upgraded from kernel 2.6.9 to kernel 2.6.10, with a lot of
> > > messy outcomes:
> > > -sound card couldn't be detected
> >
> > Couldn't be detected or doesn't work? If this is the case start alsamixer
> > and mute the headphone jack sense (forth column in the row)
> >
> > > -usb could not be detected
> > > -wireless card would have problems with Wins wrapper (which it had not
> > > done since I upgraded from FC2 to FC3)
> > >
> > > I decided to remove 2.6.10 and go back to 2.6.9. However, lately I
> > > have noticed a couple of ohter problems. Mainly, even thou my sound
> > > card is detected and works OK, it seems that now and then (specially
> > > when getting my screensaver on) when I am playing an audio file it
> > > sounds like a 'scratched record'. By that I mean that the audio file
> > > kind of gets stuck and repeats a part of the file over for a few
> > > seconds.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts on that matter?
> > >
> > > -X
> >
> > As for the other probles: I personaly compile my own kernel (need source
> > for other things) and everything forks fine that way :)
> > petr
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