Sound card stopped working after upgrading from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4

I upgraded my machine from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4 and the sounds
card has stopped working.

When I start X-windows (I'm running KDE 3.4.2-0.fc3.2 Red Hat), I get an
error message "Sound server informational message: Error while
initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such
file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output
device."

And sure enough there is no /dev/dsp there.

I tried going into the KDE control center -> sound and multimedia -> sound
system. I tried autodetect, OSS, threaded OSS, none of them worked. All
failed with the "no such device" error above.

I tried creating a /dev/dsp with MAKEDEV as in

[root@black ~]# /sbin/MAKEDEV -v dsp
create dsp c 14 3 root:root 600
create dsp1 c 14 19 root:root 600
create dsp56k c 55 0 root:root 600
symlink dsp0 -> dsp
[root@black ~]# ls -l /dev/dsp
ls: /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
[root@black ~]#

So that didn't work.

I tried updating the alsa packages using yum and while that did update the
packages, it didn't solve the problem. I've tried rebooting, to no avail.
I even tried using one of the older kernels, but now that's broken, too.

My /etc/modules.conf file contains:

[root@black ~]# more /etc/modules.conf
alias eth0 8139too
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
options scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x011f
alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
# Note: for use under 2.6, changes must also be made to modprobe.conf!
[root@black ~]#


lspci reports that the sound controller is still there:

[jeffs@black ~]$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20276 (MBFastTrak133 Lite) (rev 01)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:14.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)
[jeffs@black ~]$

Kudzu also can find it:

class: AUDIO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: snd-via82xx
desc: "VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller"
vendorId: 1106
deviceId: 3059
subVendorId: 1458
subDeviceId: a002
pciType: 1
pcidom: 0
pcibus: 0
pcidev: 11
pcifn: 5


Does anybody have any bright ideas?


Many thanks


Jeff Silverman

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