oss will not start after a kernel upgrade

[3dfx]

so after a kernel upgrade I cant get oss to start
I tried to reinstall it, but on go
I'm on sabayon Linux

here is a terminal output

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sabayon tux # soundon
Failed to disable conflicting sound drivers
Reboot and try running soundon again

Also check that you have not compiled sound support statically
into the kernel.
sabayon tux #  /etc/init.d/oss start
Starting Open Sound System: Failed to disable conflicting sound drivers
Reboot and try running soundon again

Also check that you have not compiled sound support statically
into the kernel.
Starting OSS failed
sabayon tux #


any help

[cesium]

Check if the ALSA drivers statically compiled into the kernel. Also, please paste output of 'lsmod' here.

[3dfx]

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tux@sabayon ~ $ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  236947  32
nvidia              10074117  88
r8169                  27472  0
firewire_ohci          21296  0
firewire_core          36516  1 firewire_ohci
i2c_i801                6752  0
iTCO_wdt                9800  0
iTCO_vendor_support     1625  1 iTCO_wdt
x38_edac                2543  0
tpm_tis                 6512  0
edac_core              26144  2 x38_edac
tpm                     8960  1 tpm_tis
tpm_bios                3930  1 tpm
i2c_core               14119  2 nvidia,i2c_i801
joydev                  8208  0
shpchp                 20431  0
pci_hotplug             8649  1 shpchp
pcspkr                  1480  0
xts                     2237  0
gf128mul                5538  1 xts
iscsi_tcp               7777  0
tg3                   108645  0
e1000                  84233  0
scsi_wait_scan           703  0
sl811_hcd               8855  0
ohci_hcd               18145  0
uhci_hcd               18320  0
ehci_hcd               32728  0
sx8                    11228  0
imm                     8772  0
parport                25351  1 imm
pata_pcmcia             9677  0
pcmcia                 29620  1 pata_pcmcia



[cesium]

Does /proc/asound exist? Also, please paste content of /proc/devices..

[3dfx]

Does /proc/asound exist? Also, please paste content of /proc/devices..

nether of those dir exist

[igorzwx]

so after a kernel upgrade I cant get oss to start
I tried to reinstall it, but on go
I'm on sabayon Linux
any help

If you simply reinstall OSS, it should not help.
1. remove OSS
2. remove /usr/lib/oss/
3. install OSS

[cesium]

The test the 'soundon' script uses is 'if test -d /proc/asound || grep -q '^ *14 ' < /proc/devices'. So I find it odd this is true if these don't exist...

You can edit /usr/sbin/soundon and comment out (by inserting '#' at start of line) lines 137-149 (i.e. starting from the if test... line) and see if it loads.