How do I get sound to work in FC3? (Creative Live-24 card)

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kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com wrote:

>On Saturday 23 April 2005 11:42, Antonio Olivares wrote:
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>>--- kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com wrote:
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>>>I just installed FC3 on a box that was pre-loaded
>>>with Linspire. I checked out
>>>Linspire out of curiosity and the sound worked fine.
>>>Then I wiped the box and
>>>installed FC3 because running as root all the time
>>>via Linspire is simply not
>>>an option. Most everything went well but I have no
>>>sound.
>>>
>>>I'm not sure even how to start debugging sound
>>>issues
>>>
>>>Any help/tips?
>>>      
>>>
>>Fire up a terminal, (System Tools -> Terminal) become
>>superuser and type alsamixer.  Then hit the up arrow
>>to the max press tab and do it to all of tbe tabs,
>>ie., microphone, mixer, pcm, pcm2, video, etc..,.
>>press esc to exit alsma mixer after you raised all the
>>tabs that allowed you to raise them.  Once you are out
>>try to (System Settings -> Soundcard Detection) you
>>should be able to hear sound (unless your card is one
>>of those dreaded cases).  If this works(you can hear
>>sound), Go to Kmix if you are in KDE or Volume Control
>>in Gnome and adjust the settings to your own taste.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Antonio
>>
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>I tried this with no luck.  I went out and bought a Creative Soundblaster 
>Live-24 card.  
>
>I've installed the new card and the hardware browser 
>(Kmenu-->System Tools-->Hardware browser) sees the card 
>as "Creative Labs SB Audigy LS" and lists the driver as "snd-ca0106"
>
>I've turned up all the controls in alsamixer and still no sound.
>
>Please Help! This machine is for potential investors to evaluate Linux for a 
>startup company. I'm completely open to purchasing a new sound card if 
>someone can recommend a card that definitely works with FC3.
>
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Might try stickin the line out in some of the other output ports.  I 
remember for the longest time with my Live 5.1 i had to use the rear 
output to get a decent, clean sound.  Might do something for you.