No Sound from FC4 - Clue Needed

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 07:45:52PM -0500, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> 
> Background - My girlfriend's RH9 machine (not on a network) got seriously 
> wacky, not getting through the boot sequence before rebooting, and then 
> not booting at all. Rather than "waste" time with proper trouble shooting, 
> I elected to replace.
> 
> Problem: I'm not able to get FC4 fresh install to access the sound card 
> hardware. The hardware works, because Knoppix 3.9 finds the sound card and 
> works. Under fedora, I'm not able to play the cd drive (audio cd) nor get 
> the sound config gui to successfully configure the sound card.
> 
> The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 series, 865PE Motherboard (this 
> from the manual) with a P-42.4 GHz processor and 256MB ram.  Sound is 
> supposedly an integrated Realtech ALC655 AC '97 CODEC chip.
> 
> Clues and/or actuall solutions happily accepted with thanks.
> 
I would run alsamixer. Increase the gain (volume) on all of the relevant
channels (CD for example). Change all the muted channels (MM at the
bottom) to un-muted (00) by typing m.

If that does not work we can debug further.
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
telephone: (210)-999-7484