Sound suddenly stopped working. [Intel Sound]

Where do I start? My sound isn’t working. openSUSE 11 GM GNOME. I did some updates last night, rebooted, and sound didn’t come up. I tried re-installing (using yast) all packages with the search-words “sound” and “pulse” and “audio”. Reboot -> nothing changed. Not sure what to do next. Thanks for reading.

cheetah:~ # hwinfo --sound
22: PCI 1b.0: 0403 Audio device                                 
  [Created at pci.310]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27d8
  Unique ID: u1Nb.7by7bMXUowA
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1b.0
  Hardware Class: sound
  Model: "Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x27d8 "82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
  SubDevice: pci 0x30a2 
  Revision: 0x01
  Driver: "HDA Intel"
  Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel"
  Memory Range: 0xf4580000-0xf4583fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 16 (593 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000027D8sv0000103Csd000030A2bc04sc03i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel"
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
cheetah:~ # 

Hi
The sound server in Gnome is probably disabled. Go to the Control
Centre-> System-> Sound on the ‘Sounds’ tab , are the two top check
boxes checked, if not check them and play a test sound. Then on the
‘Devices’ tab set the events to ‘Autodetect’ and then test.


Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default
up 12:06, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.02
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

This thread may be of help as well. Let us know how you get on. :slight_smile:

YES - that did it! I feel kinda dumb I didn’t think of doing that. Thanks for the help