No Sound on Fedora 11 2.6.30 kernel (2.6.29 works fine) Solved

[Jerry Feldman]

Basically, I've been lazy and running on the 2.6.29 kernel although I
did run a compare.
Short of upgrading to fedora 12 beta, I decided to download and compile
the latest Alsa driver which solved the problem.


On 10/12/2009 02:26 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 10/12/2009 11:53 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>  =20
>> On 10/11/2009 07:53 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>  =20
>>    =20
>>> Sound works fine on my system with the 2.6.29 (specifically
>>> 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.x86_64) kernel, but when they updated to 2.6.3=
0
>>> the sound stopped working. If I reboot back to the 2.6.29 kernel thin=
gs
>>> work fine. I've googled a number of different places (including Fedor=
a
>>> Forum http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=3D225660), but n=
o
>>> luck. Looking at some of the issues it appears to be something betwee=
n
>>> front and back speakers. My system only has 1 audio array . My sound
>>> card is nVidia Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev a2). I've=

>>> looked through all the different settings and run various Pulse Audio=
 as
>>> well as ALSA mixers. When I look at the Pulse Audio volume meter, in
>>> both 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 kernels, it does show the volume levels. So fa=
r,
>>> I don't see any clues at either boot time or in dmesg.
>>>    =20
>>>      =20
>>

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