Alsa upgrade-no sound

Hi ppl
i upgraded the alsa packages and my kernel but now i have no sound. audacious doesnt work audacity cannot initialise sound I/O etc....
any ideas?
JD

Same problem here
lsmod:
[stefano@archbox ~]$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
ipv6 252864 8
nvidia 6828532 32
ext2 57352 1
snd_seq_oss 29184 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6528 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 46928 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
ppdev 7556 0
lp 9604 0
snd_pcm_oss 39072 0
snd_mixer_oss 14464 1 snd_pcm_oss
analog 10144 0
snd_mpu401 6376 0
snd_mpu401_uart 7040 1 snd_mpu401
ns558 4224 0
parport_pc 35940 1
tuner 59816 0
parport 31176 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
pcspkr 2816 0
saa7134 112864 0
video_buf 20356 1 saa7134
compat_ioctl32 1536 1 saa7134
ir_kbd_i2c 7056 1 saa7134
ir_common 26628 2 saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c
videodev 25216 1 saa7134
v4l2_common 22656 3 tuner,saa7134,videodev
v4l1_compat 13956 2 saa7134,videodev
snd_intel8x0 28956 1
ppp_generic 23444 0
slhc 6272 1 ppp_generic
snd_emu10k1 128192 0
snd_rawmidi 19232 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec 95396 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus 2432 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 68740 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device 6796 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer 19204 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 3840 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 7044 1 snd_emu10k1
serio_raw 5636 0
snd_page_alloc 7944 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
rtc 10416 0
snd 43876 16 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore 6496 1 snd
emu10k1_gp 3200 0
gameport 11784 5 analog,ns558,emu10k1_gp
psmouse 35336 0
ehci_hcd 29964 0
nvidia_agp 6556 1
agpgart 26200 2 nvidia,nvidia_agp
shpchp 29588 0
pci_hotplug 27976 1 shpchp
ohci_hcd 18948 0
i2c_nforce2 5120 0
i2c_core 17792 5 nvidia,tuner,saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c,i2c_nforce2
evdev 8192 1
tsdev 6336 0
forcedeth 40200 0
usbcore 112392 3 ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
ext3 119176 3
jbd 55336 1 ext3
mbcache 7044 2 ext2,ext3
ide_cd 35744 0
cdrom 34464 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 13312 7
sata_nv 14980 0
libata 94228 1 sata_nv
generic 4740 0 [permanent]
amd74xx 13852 0 [permanent]
ide_core 108744 4 ide_cd,ide_disk,generic,amd74xx
[stefano@archbox ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 0 (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
01:08.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 0a)
01:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134/SAA7135HL Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
lsmod:
[stefano@archbox ~]$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
ipv6 252864 8
nvidia 6828532 32
ext2 57352 1
snd_seq_oss 29184 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6528 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 46928 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
ppdev 7556 0
lp 9604 0
snd_pcm_oss 39072 0
snd_mixer_oss 14464 1 snd_pcm_oss
analog 10144 0
snd_mpu401 6376 0
snd_mpu401_uart 7040 1 snd_mpu401
ns558 4224 0
parport_pc 35940 1
tuner 59816 0
parport 31176 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
pcspkr 2816 0
saa7134 112864 0
video_buf 20356 1 saa7134
compat_ioctl32 1536 1 saa7134
ir_kbd_i2c 7056 1 saa7134
ir_common 26628 2 saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c
videodev 25216 1 saa7134
v4l2_common 22656 3 tuner,saa7134,videodev
v4l1_compat 13956 2 saa7134,videodev
snd_intel8x0 28956 1
ppp_generic 23444 0
slhc 6272 1 ppp_generic
snd_emu10k1 128192 0
snd_rawmidi 19232 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec 95396 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus 2432 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 68740 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device 6796 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer 19204 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 3840 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 7044 1 snd_emu10k1
serio_raw 5636 0
snd_page_alloc 7944 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
rtc 10416 0
snd 43876 16 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore 6496 1 snd
emu10k1_gp 3200 0
gameport 11784 5 analog,ns558,emu10k1_gp
psmouse 35336 0
ehci_hcd 29964 0
nvidia_agp 6556 1
agpgart 26200 2 nvidia,nvidia_agp
shpchp 29588 0
pci_hotplug 27976 1 shpchp
ohci_hcd 18948 0
i2c_nforce2 5120 0
i2c_core 17792 5 nvidia,tuner,saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c,i2c_nforce2
evdev 8192 1
tsdev 6336 0
forcedeth 40200 0
usbcore 112392 3 ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
ext3 119176 3
jbd 55336 1 ext3
mbcache 7044 2 ext2,ext3
ide_cd 35744 0
cdrom 34464 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 13312 7
sata_nv 14980 0
libata 94228 1 sata_nv
generic 4740 0 [permanent]
amd74xx 13852 0 [permanent]
ide_core 108744 4 ide_cd,ide_disk,generic,amd74xx
P.S. I use my mother board sound card
Last edited by Crazypu (2007-04-16 16:51:10)

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Hi,
What has been going wrong with your post ? You can use external USB sound card for your laptop. Here are few of them:
http://www.shopbot.com.au/external-sound-card-usb/price/australia/582295
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BH
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[solved] After sytem update ALSA only plays sound for root

Hello. Yesterday I performed a system update as usual, and after rebooting I found that my user account does not have any sound anymore. Root has sound just fine. I checked and my user is still in the audio group. I even removed him from the group, added him again, and rebooted but it did not help.
I get these error messages in a terminal:
mplayer:
alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:989:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC semaphore
speaker-test:
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:989:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC semaphore
Playback open error: -13,Permission denied
Running these with a sudo works 100% fine. Alsamixer levels for my user are normal too.
WORKAROUND: Restart timidity service.
SOLUTION: Do not run timidity as a service in the first place.
Last edited by mir91 (2013-11-25 13:37:12)

Thanks for replying.
My root user actually doesn't play sound, I just tried to play some for testing purpose after my normal user suddenly just had silence.
Unfortunately those IPC-changes did not help. However, I removed my /etc/asound.conf file completely for testing purpose and voila, sound suddenly works again. So it seems the last update changed something that does not accept my asound configuration anymore. I will try to experiment a bit with its contents to further narrow it down.
Ok, this is strange
I commented out an entry
period_time 0
and after that my user had sound again. Then I restored that entry and...sound still works.
I will pretend I didn't see anything and just move along I guess.
Last edited by mir91 (2013-11-17 09:28:59)

After 10.9.3 upgrade no sound on digital/optical port

Hello All,
I have a problem with my Mini (Early 2009, 2GHz Core2Duo). After recent Mavericks upgrade to 10.9.3, sound through digital optical output port dissapeared.
1. I checked receiver's input, works with other devices on the same cable.
2. Cable output light is red (as always, seem Mac Mini transmitter works???)
3. Mavericks says that optical wire is connected to the port, in sound preferences there is digital/optical output available.
4. Speaker icon on Top Bar is greyed out and volume slider unavailable to adjust.
5. PRAM/NVRAM reset didn't help.
6. Receiver doesn't recognise signal because input led says Analog, normally Digital should be there.
Maybe this is a bug?
Please help.
Regards,
Kamil

Hey Guys,
After recent SMC+EFI update on Macbook Air (Mid 2013) OSX v10.9.3, my internal audio device disappeared,
I tried everything I could find in google with no luck. (NPRAM+SMC reset, reloading kents etc.)
THIS IS WHAT SOLVED THE PROBLEM FOR ME:
1. I opened /System/Library/Extensions folder, there I found besides the usual AppleHDA.kext, also an AppleHDA.kext.disabled one.
2. I switched between them (swapped their names, sometimes you'll have to do it from the "get info" menu to take effect)
-- if you don't have this AppleHDA.kext.disabled one, try searching for one lil older than yours in the internet
3. then I unloaded and reloaded the kent dir again-
sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
And voila!
Hope it helps someone, as I spent hours until getting this to work again

IOS 4.x Upgrade breaks sound and video playback

Been fighting this issue for a while and I've hit a brick wall.
Apparently upgrading a 2nd generation Touch to IOS 4.2.1 has broken audio and video play back. My Touch will not play any sounds, music files, or videos, and it locks up when an alarm goes off.
Thinking I could downgrade, I went through the motions of downloading a 3.x version of IOS as well as a copy of Tiny Umbrella. The problem I have is to downgrade you have to save the SHSH blob (a software hash that identifies your device by chipset). Supposedly a service called Cydia has SHSH blobs for iPhones and some iPod Touch devices, but there is no SHSH blob for my touch. The bottom line is, I'm stuck. My Touch is BROKEN, and Apple did it.
So now the question is, will Apple fix this, or are they going to kick older Touch users to the curb? Personally I think a class action suit is in order.
Apple.... Are you listening? I sure hope so, but looking at their past performance in customer support, I seriously doubt they give a hoot.

Sending a message via feedback was next on my list. It really is a shame that Apple is so paranoid and arrogant they can't give users a way to go back to a known good OS.
There may be a lot of MS bashing going on, but as a former MS employee, I can say that MS always gives users a way to clean up after a bad install. I know this to be true because I worked in Desktop Systems as a Customer Support rep. and my area of concentration was Setup and Install.
I've been building my own desktop PCs since the first IBM clones hit the streets, and this episode with IOS 4.x gives me one more reason stick with what works and leave Apple's stuff alone.....

[Solved] No sound with ALSA (change default sound card)

I installed Arch on another laptop and I am unable to get sound working.
# lspci | grep -i audio
00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device 9840
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller (rev 02)
Two devices show up in alsamixer. The first (the default, I assume) shows up only an S/PDIF button that I can toggle. If I select the other sound card, I can change volume normally.
I followed this solution in the wiki with no success.
How can I make the second sound card the default one?
Last edited by Gradient (2014-09-09 18:17:14)

Here is the requested info with the cards in the corrected order:
$ aplay -lL;
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=Generic_1
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Generic_1
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
Front speakers
surround21:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, ALC3227 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC3227 Analog [ALC3227 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
$ for i in /proc/asound/card[0-9]*; do echo "--- $i ---";amixer -c $(cat $i/id); done;
--- /proc/asound/card0 ---
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 87
Mono: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 87
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 87
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 3 [100%] [36.00dB]
Front Right: 3 [100%] [36.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 63
Front Left: Capture 39 [62%] [12.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Capture 39 [62%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
Item0: 'Enabled'
Simple mixer control 'Internal Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 3 [100%] [36.00dB]
Front Right: 3 [100%] [36.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Mute-LED Mode',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'On' 'Off' 'Follow Master'
Item0: 'Follow Master'
--- /proc/asound/card1 ---
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
$ lspci -vnn | grep -A 1 -i audio
00:01.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device [1002:9840]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:22cd]
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller [1022:780d] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:22cd]
emeres wrote:What do you mean 'is visible in alsamixer'? F6 does not list it? Did you use index or enable?
Yes, that is what I meant; F6 did not list them both when I use your options. I must have done something wrong the first time, because now it does.
emeres wrote:Read this alsa documentation and 'mad modprobe'.
Thanks for the link. That was what I was looking for.

Post Yosemite upgrade: crackling sound appears

Hello All,
I have a Late 2013 13" Macbook Pro Retina. I just upgraded to Yosemite from Mavericks and have noticed this crackling sound coming from the laptop even if nothing is running. I am quite positive it never made this noise before. Has anyone else noticed this; is this something I should be worried about?

I noticed the exact same thing. Sound comes from the left side, probably under the Caps Lock key.
I have nothing running except Chrome and it won't stop crackling, as if it were an old laptop struggling to run an application. I checked the activity monitor and my RAM usage seems fine (if I'm not mistaken, though the memory used at 5.77 GB seems a bit high?)

OSS/ALSA or Open Sound System/ Advanced Linux Sound Architecture?

I want to move/rename the articles in the wiki to their full names but they are commonly referred to by their shorter names even though the longer names would improve clarity. I've been cleaning up redirections in the wiki anyway so it would be too much of a bother to add a few more things to my list of redirections to clean up. Thoughts?

ngoonee wrote:Why not have OSS redirect to Open Sound System and similarly for alsa? Though I think that's what you're suggesting.. in that case, go for it
Can not agree more. This will definitely be easier for a user to find the article and also improve clarity.

ALSA 5.1 Sound problem...

I'm using mpd (Music Player Deamon) at the moment to listen to my music collection, and although ALSA works without a hitch, I wanted to have sound on all my speakers for normal stereo sources.
In my ~/.asoundrc file I added add the following (as per instruction on the ALSA website)
pcm.duplicate {
type plug
slave.pcm "surround51"
slave.channels 6
route_policy duplicate
After that I set the ALSA device used for mpd to duplicate.
For mpd it's in /etc/mpd.conf under the audio_ouput section.
I added
device "duplicate"
Although this works, it seems to mess up the hardware mixing on my sound card (an AC97 variant). If I use the normal "surround51″ device, all is well.
Any ideas how I, or if, I can solve this?

I've found the solution. Thought I'd share.
First things first, make sure you have JACK installed. Then, edit your ~/.asoundrc file to look like this
ctl.jack51 {
type hw
card 0
pcm.jack51 {
# "asym" allows for different
# handling of in/out devices
type asym
playback.pcm {
# route for mmap workaround
type plug
slave.pcm "surround51"
slave.channels 6
route_policy duplicate
capture.pcm {
# 2 channels only
type hw
card 0
Then, start JACK with
jackd -d alsa -d jack51
(Loading JACK at startup can be done in a variety of ways, depending on how you do things)
I had trouble starting it up as a regular user, but that can be fixed by editing /etc/security/limits.conf (as described in the wiki).
It's nice to have qjackctl installed to control JACK from your desktop environment.
pacman -S qjackctl
If your app supports JACK output, you're good to go! Simply set it to use JACK.
For MPD, I had to install the SVN 4125 trunk. Download the PKGBUILD and simply edit the version to the newest SVN build (check this on mpd's site). The 4125 release has support for JACK output.
Then, in /etc/mpd.conf, use this
audio_output {
type "jack"
name "mpd"
Et voila! Surround sound with mixing.

ALSA: Problem with sound card detection

Hi all...
I have small problem with alsaconf..
alsaconf report:
"No supported PnP or PCI card found"
I have DELL Latitude C500 laptop
Sound card: ESS Maestro3 (This soundcard is supported by ALSA)
Archlinux detect my soundcard correctly:
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aurora Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 1998 (rev 10)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 00b1
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 4
Memory at 30002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=256]
Memory at feffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
modprobe snd-maestro3 doesn't work.
(Sorry for my bad english)
Any ideas ?

I had installed a new archlinux , and also have this Error.
[root@myhost eric]# alsamixer
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory
[root@myhost eric]# ls /dev/snd
controlC0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D1c pcmC0D3c pcmC1D0c seq
controlC1 pcmC0D0p pcmC0D2c pcmC0D4p pcmC1D0p timer
[root@myhost eric]# lsmod |grep snd
snd_seq_oss 29312 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6528 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 46672 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 6924 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 38560 0
snd_mixer_oss 14592 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0 28700 1
snd_intel8x0m 14092 0
snd_ac97_codec 95780 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
ac97_bus 2432 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 69124 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 19204 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 44644 10 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 6496 2 snd
snd_page_alloc 7816 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm
[root@myhost eric]# /etc/rc.d/alsa restart
:: Saving ALSA Levels [BUSY] ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0
/usr/sbin/alsactl: get_controls:533: snd_ctl_open error: No such file or directory
[FAIL]
:: Restoring ALSA Levels [BUSY] ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0
/usr/sbin/alsactl: set_controls:1179: snd_ctl_open error: No such file or directory
[FAIL]

G60-458DX Windows 8 upgrade NO SOUND...have tried "everything!"

Greetings,
I have an older G60-458DX notebook that I upgraded to Windows 8 64-bit.
I have lost sound from both the internal speakers and anything plugged into the headphone jack. I can see levels fluxuate on the taskbar volume control when I move the slider.
I have tried the following with no success amoung other things:
Used Windows troubleshooting feature in Windows 8
Disables and enables the drivers for sound device as well as tried to upgrade the drivers (already the most current)
Checked all sound software access points
Some of the research I read indicated that HP was not going to support older hardware with driver updates for Windows 8. Is there a workaround for this issue? Could I used a USB external soundcard and bi-pass the non-fuctioning drivers?
This is my wife's computer and while she likes Windows 8, she NEEDS SOUND. Thank you!

Brett,
You are "far and away up the soundless creek" and I offer you a paddle:
Running Drivers and Software in Compatibility Mode by AttackOfZaq
There is a hope this will work to bring sound where there is now silence.
It is possible that it may turn out to be a very small paddle in a very large creek.
Good Luck!
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Upgrade kills sound

I upgraded to Leopard 10.5.7. Now I have no sound except the usual startup hum sound. My sound indicator shows that everything is muted, but the mute check box is greyed out and not uncheckable. I have tried system sounds and YouTube videos to see if anything makes noise; no joy.
The time coincidence makes me almost certain that this sudden sound disappearance is related to the upgrade, but that's about where my savvy ends. Any ideas? thanks very much.

This is a very common update issue with G5s and Intel Macs:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300832
Sometimes zapping the PRAM can also help:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
If neither helps, you create another user in Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Accounts and login to that user and see if the issue persists there. That would tell you at least if it is a system wide issue, or a user specific issue. Let us know your findings please?

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