[ltp] X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update

[Andrew Barr]

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 23:22 +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote:
> OK, more - I just fired up gaim from the commandline, and saw this:
> 
> [achitnis@vader] ~$ ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot 
> find card '0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver 
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat 
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer 
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib conf.c:3947:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2143:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> 
> This seems to be some alsa card confusion.
> 
> modprobe.conf says:
> 
> alias scsi_hostadapter ahci
> alias eth1 ipw3945
> alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
> options snd-card-0 index=0
> options snd-hda-intel index=0
> remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel
> alias eth0 e1000

If I were you, I'd try an alsa-driver -rc release from
www.alsa-project.org. I have an Intel HD Audio codec on my new Core 2
Duo motherboard, and it did not work properly until I used the drivers
available from that site instead of the in-kernel drivers.

HTH,
Andrew Barr