<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.6.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi;  I tried your suggestions yesterday. Here is what happened. On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 13:05 -0400, fedora-list-request@redhat.com wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>I went back and reread your previous posts on your sound problems. Even</TT> <TT>though I'm currently running FC3, I've seen an issue where my TV card,</TT> <TT>which has a mixer, seems to interfere with the configuration of ALSA for</TT> <TT>the motherboard sound devices. </TT> </BLOCKQUOTE>  How can I tell for certain that my TV card also has an intrusive mixer? I have looked in tvtime and bttv as well as asound.conf and I couldn't see anything that looked like an additonal mixer -- but then what do I know?  <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>The edits to asound.conf fixed this</TT> <TT>problem for me. You stated that the your edits to asound.conf keep</TT> <TT>reverting back to the old values. As a data point, it would be good to</TT> <TT>know what the old and new values were/are. </TT> </BLOCKQUOTE>  # Generated by system-config-soundcard, do not edit by hand defaults.pcm.card 0 defaults.ctl.card 0 <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>In my case the zeroes</TT> <TT>changed to ones and I manually changed them back. The result of the</TT> <TT>zeroes changing to ones was evident in alsamixer. The only control I</TT> <TT>saw was the TV card's volume (IIRC). What do you see when you run</TT> <TT>alsamixer?</TT>  </BLOCKQUOTE> [snip] I am not sure what you mean. I am going to try experimenting configuring asound.conf with all the suggestions I have received. Didn't seem to help before, but maybe now that I have added the lines to my modprobe.conf the changes will stick long enough to tell me something.  <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>I am running FC3 as opposed to FC4, so some things may have been</TT> <TT>updated. Here are a couple of things to try:</TT>  <TT>1. Run /usr/bin/gst-register. This fixed a problem for me where all of</TT> <TT>the mixer(s) disappeared.</TT>  </BLOCKQUOTE>  Ran gst-register-8.0 once again. Changed nothing. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>2. Remove the TV Card, reboot and let kudzu correct modprobe.conf.</TT>  <TT>Save your modprobe.conf, if step 2 fixes anything, before reinstalling</TT> <TT>your TV card.</TT>  </BLOCKQUOTE> asound.conf remained unchanged both before and after my ATI TV card was removed, and after it was returned. Kudzu was on.  audacity could still not find the i/o. cd plays even when CD in mixer is off.  <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>These are the pertinent entries in my modprobe.conf (an Intel sound</TT> <TT>device):</TT>  <TT>alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0</TT> <TT>options snd-card-0 index=0</TT> <TT>install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :</TT> <TT>remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0</TT> </BLOCKQUOTE>  Wrote similar lines in my modprobe.conf. There is some debate over whether it is necessary in FC4. I found that it prevented my mixer settings from being changed -- I think.  <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>I can't really say anything to your distortion issues, but possibly</TT> <TT>getting the mixer issues under control may help.</TT>  </BLOCKQUOTE> Distortion issues fixed. See earlier post to Alexander. Regards Bill </BODY> </HTML>