Sound not coming after compiling new kernel 2.6.36

Nilesh Tayade nilesh.tayade at netscout.com
Fri Dec 24 01:29:10 EST 2010


On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 10:11 +0530, Rishi Agrawal wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I compiled the kernel 2.6.36 and now the sound is missing. I have
> pasted the outputs of lsmod and lspci. I have fedora 12 installed on
> the system.
> 
> Have I done something wrong in the menuconfig stage.
> 
> Sound is coming properly with the old Fedora Kernel. 
> 
> I tried tweaking the alsamixer but it did not work.
> 
> 
> [rishi at rishi-desktop ~]$ uname -a
> Linux rishi-desktop 2.6.36 #1 SMP Sat Dec 18 21:24:34 IST 2010 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> 
> [rishi at rishi-desktop ~]$ lspci | grep -i audio
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
> Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
> 
> [rishi at rishi-desktop ~]$ lsmod | grep snd
> snd_hda_codec_analog    53691  1 
> snd_hda_intel          20031  1 
> snd_hda_codec          73253  2 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel
> snd_hwdep               4856  1 snd_hda_codec
> snd_seq                42695  0 
> snd_seq_device          4937  1 snd_seq
> snd_pcm                62570  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
> snd_timer              15387  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> snd                    46823  11
> snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer,thinkpad_acpi
> snd_page_alloc          6077  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> soundcore               4831  1 snd
> 

This may not be the case, but could you just check if pcspkr.ko module
is compiled and installed? I am no expert, but have faced similar thing
on older kernel. I have disabled the sound on my desktop by blacklisting
this module.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Rishi Agrawal
> 
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-- 
Thanks,
Nilesh



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