Hi all, I just wanted to let you know what worked for me, in the hopes that it might help you. I am running Mandrake 7.2, with most/all available software updates, on an IBM ThinkPad with the ESS Solo-1 sound card (snd-card-es1939 driver). After doing a recent update of alsa and the kernel to 2.2.19, I suddenly lost my sound. I was able to determine that the sound module was loading correctly by checking /var/log/messages, and also by running lsmod to see which modules were loaded. Everything was there, but I had no sound! At one point, I saw that there were some items not configured (audio devices, synth, mixer). I was able to get everything configured and running by making sure I had aumix installed, then running it as *root* (it won't run for a normal user). I had to set the mixer settings to 100% for everything except the microphone (which gave horrible feedback when I turned it up, so I left it off). But everything else is at 100, and then I saved the config, and now my sound works again. There is apparently a bug in the alsa upgrade, which replaces the /etc/.aumixrc (mixer settings) file, and the replacement contains all zeros for volume controls. Also, with my particular sound card, even at 50% there was no sound! I had to turn it WAY up, to 100, just to be able to hear things normally. As always, YMMV, but hopefully this will help a few people. Dave
