[PlanetCCRMA] AC97-ICH5 onboard sound stopped working after upgrade to 2.4.20

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

> > > After upgrading to 2.4.20-24.1.capssmp.rh90.ccrma the sound stopped
> > > working. The driver seems to load OK and I've tried every possible
> > > combination with alsamixer and gamix but I couldn't get sound through
> > > the line-out connector.
> > 
> > Weird. Did the upgrade include a newer version of alsa? That might be
> > the problem. You could try erasing /etc/asound.state and starting the
> > alsamixer or gamix configuration from scratch. 
> > 
> 
> Yes. The update changed ALSA from 0.9.4 to 1.0.0rc2.
> 
> I tried everyting I can imagine withthe mixers (including erasing the
> asound.state file and doing manual changes to it) to no avail.
> 
> I've seen other postings (on this list or in alsa-user, I don't
> remember) where people with other motherboards that seem to have the
> same sound chipset are experiencing the same problems. I guess someone
> did a change to the module and "broke" it.

Sounds like that. I'm getting close to releasing new kernels and alsa
1.0.1, maybe that will fix the problem (and introduce new ones? :-)

-- Fernando