Sound Not working still with Fedora...
Lane Inman
lanei at etm.pdx.edu
Fri Dec 3 00:52:32 UTC 2004
I have used about 100 different combinations for mixer values... maxing
everything unmuting everything, turning off/on random switches Is
there anyone with the old sound drivers for FC3 because alsa is
horrible.
-Lane
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 16:45 -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:21:08PM -0800, Lane Inman wrote:
> > Okay;
> > I sent this before and got detoured, but it is a very annoying
> > problem. Please read the description as each time I post the question,
> > I get the same answers (none of which have gotten my sound card to
> > work):
> >
> > 1) soundconfig does not work - it says the card is detected, and when it
> > "plays" a test sound I get nothing.
> > 2) then gnome-alsa sound mixer does not improve it either
> > 3) the rest of the information is below:
> >
> >
> It is time for some truths. The actions of the alsa support for sound
> has been screwy since FC1. The behavior is hardware dependent. I am
> getting sound on a machine where system-config-soundcard says it can
> not recognize a soundcard. With FC1 and FC3 the soundcard is
> obviously recognized since the appropriate lines are placed in the
> modprobe.conf file. FC2 had no lines put in this file so sound does
> not work on the machine even if I put the lines in the file by hand.
> Anyway to get sound working on under the versions of FC which will
> produce sound the process is one of:
> 1. configuring channels with alamixer
> 2, setting the volume with the volume control option.
> 3. If you want the CD-s to play and gnome-cd won't do it and it
> does not on this machine use grip and it works.
>
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