<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 8, 2008 11:08 PM, Aaron Konstam <<a href="mailto:akonstam@sbcglobal.net">akonstam@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 18:15 -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > > > On Feb 8, 2008 3:15 PM, Aaron Konstam <<a href="mailto:akonstam@sbcglobal.net">akonstam@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: > > > Like another poster today sound in f8 is driving me crazy. > Over the last > decades I have installed 13 versions of Redhat and Fedora > since 4.x but > f8 has got me stymied. I am installing on an era 2000 Optiplex > GXip with > PIII and 384 M RAM. > > My sound card is recognized and lines appear for its driver in > modprobe.conf but the drivers are not loaded by default on > boot. I had > to a modprobe in rc.local. > > The sound card configuration program plays its sounds. > > Now the trouble starts. All the usual CD players claim they > cannot find > a sound source on the CD. The only one that works so far is > grip. > > Grip needs a cable connecting the drive to the sound card. > </div>A cable is there. Won't gnome-cd use a cable.? <div class="Ih2E3d">> > > Video sequences produce no sound. I have tried this with > pulseaudio and > without it and there is no difference in behavior. > > Any ideas would be accepted. Mplayer and its codecs are > installed. > > But me ask two questions: > 1. sound related. When I install the volume control in the > panel it > appears with little red x beside it. When I run it I get a > error message > that says: > The volume control did not find any elements or devices to > control. > This means that either you don't have the right Gstreamer > plugins > installed or you don't have the sound card configured, > > > This has nothing to do with plugins. This is alsa related. > > Try > more /proc/asound/cards </div>The command above results in: 0 [CS4236B ]: CS4236B - CS4236B CS4236B at 0x534, irq 5, dma 1&3 Whic I think is a problem because it is Card 0 that is being looked for. But I don't know what to do about it, </blockquote><div> According to this thread <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-29438.html">http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-29438.html</a> you can try adding options snd-cs4236 dma1=1 dma2=3 io=0x0534 irq=5 to your /etc/modprobe.conf and rebooting (of course, if this is the module you are using). </div></div> -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ