[CentOS] No sound after upgrade to 4.4

Sat Sep 2 12:07:33 UTC 2006
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 12:00 +0000, Joseph Haig wrote:
> After upgrading from CentOS 4.3 to 4.4 the sound doesn't work anymore.  Messages like the following appear in dmesg when I try to use it:
> 
> application firefox-bin uses obsolete OSS audio interface
> 
> The output from 'lsmod | snd' is:
> 
> snd_azx                21713  2
> snd_hda_codec         121665  1 snd_azx
> snd_pcm_oss            52729  0
> snd_mixer_oss          21953  2 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                92357  3 snd_azx,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer              28229  1 snd_pcm
> snd                    57509  8 snd_azx,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> soundcore              13089  2 snd
> snd_page_alloc         13897  2 snd_azx,snd_pcm
> 
> 
> The computer is a Dell Dimension 3100 and the soundcard in on-board.  Has anyone else seen this problem?

Nope. I don't have a Dell though. I've seen a lot of posts where people
are told to check to see if things got muted and they did check and
things were muted and un-muting fixed it.

In case that's not your problem, here's my modules for comparison (ignor
the hardware-specific piece, of course).

# lsmod|grep snd
snd_via82xx            26565  2
snd_ac97_codec         64145  1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm_oss            49401  0
snd_mixer_oss          18241  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                97225  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              30149  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          9929  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         8897  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            26853  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8265  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    55973  11
snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore              10017  2 snd


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe
> <snip sig stuff>

HTH
--
Bill