[Lugstuff] sound driver conundrum

[Theodore Knab]

The '+' is not part of the command.

You might be able to reinstall the kernel after you get things backed up
and get sound to work. I would try reinstalling the kernel first.

On 15/01/10 20:50 -0500, David F Bleil wrote:
> On Friday 15 January 2010 08:47:37 am Theodore Knab wrote:
> > You should be able to run this as root to see if something is missing:
> > + /sbin/depmod -a
> 
> Is the "+" part of the command?  Running the command without the + there is a 
> pause and nothing is returned to stdout.  Is the output directed to stderror?
> 
> running the command /sbin.lspci | grep -i audio produces the message " no 
> modules" 
> 
> If the sound module has indeed been totally clobbered is there a way to put it 
> back -- short of doing a clean install? I guess this weekend is total data 
> backup time.
> 
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