FC3: "No soundcards detected"

M.Hockings veeshooter at hockings.net
Mon Nov 22 16:34:21 UTC 2004


Gustavo Seabra wrote:

> Mike,
> 
> At least in my case, the soudcard detector couldn't find my card 
> beacause it's ISA. Anyway, since the system shows something there, it 
> seemed to be working somehow. So, I opened the sound mixer (KMix, in 
> KDE) and put all the volumes to the maximum and turned my speaker volume 
> up: there was it! I could hear the sounds!  What seemed to be the 
> problem is that for some obscure reason Fedora sets the volume too low, 
> and then we just don't hear it. (I tried Knoppix and the sounds came out 
> just right from the start.)
> 
> Someone ought to fix this in a future release...
> 
> Hope that helps you too,
> 
> Gustavo.
> 

Hi Gustavo,

In my case I have the the volume control set to max.

When I do the soundcard detection it just says that none are found, 
there is no inquiry to play a sound or if a sound was played.

And for me too Knoppix works fine, as does Win98....

Mike




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