Bug 116427

Summary:	No sound modules loaded in RC1
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Michael Matz <matz>
Component:	Sound	Assignee:	Ladislav Slezák <lslezak>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	ast
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Michael Matz 2005-09-12 05:55:59 UTC

I've updated to RC1 from beta2 (which I updated from 9.3), and now have  
no sound modules loaded.  I have a SBLive.  Someone told me, that this  
is because of missing hwcfg-* files in /etc/sysconfig/hardware/ .  But  
as this is an update, and yast still knows about this devices I would  
expect these to be created somehow.  Because of no alsa modules also  
rcalsasound start doesn't help, because it only does something when  
/proc/asound exists, which it doesn't on my system (knuth).  Someone  
also told me, that I could work-around this by starting yast, removing the  
sound config and redoing a "quick configuration", which supposedly would  
create these files.  I did not yet do this, in the hope that someone  
can find out, why the update didn't work on my system (knuth).

Comment 1 Takashi Iwai 2005-09-12 09:31:53 UTC

Interesting that it worked on beta2.  The sound system wasn't changed much since
beta2.  Usually, this happens only when updated from 9.1 or older version
without reconfiguring the sound device.

IIRC, the update path isn't provided by yast2 (yet).  So, I reassign this to
yast2-sound maintainer.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.

And, yes, the problem should be fixed once after you reconfigure with either
yast2 or alsaconf script.  A brief description is found in
/usr/share/doc/packages/alsa/README.SuSE.

Comment 2 Michael Matz 2005-09-12 09:39:11 UTC

I don't know if it worked in beta2 :-(  IIRC I didn't play any music 
as long as I had beta2 on the machine.

Comment 3 Ladislav Slezák 2005-09-12 11:59:39 UTC

The hardware configuration is not changed during update, it's a general problem.

The sound cards doesn't work because 10.0 uses hotplug and udev, 9.3 uses the
old way (modprobe.conf + static devices). If there is no hwcfg-* file the
modules won't be loaded, that's the problem.

Yast knows the devices because configuration is still read from modprobe.conf.
Reconfiguring the sound card should help.

Comment 4 Ladislav Slezák 2007-02-08 14:07:22 UTC

*** Bug 134529 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Jiri Srain 2007-05-21 11:36:15 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 127738 ***