sound issues in 2.6.10-1.741_FC3

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Petr Šimon wrote:

> Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>
>> Neal Wilkinson wrote:
>>
>>> My Montego II worked in 2.6.9-1.667 but stopped when I upgraded to
>>> 2.6.10-1.741_FC3. I know Turtle Beach never released their code and 
>>> that
>>> there are some old Aureal drivers out on SourceForge. I've seen other
>>> cards besides mine having an issue with the new kernel though. I'm
>>> wondering if anyone knows if there will be a fix for these issues as
>>> they are affecting many or should I try and fix it using the old Aureal
>>> drivers? Thanks.
>>>
>>> Neal Wilkinson
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>> Get the latest ALSA drivers and packages either look for rpms or 
>> build them yourself, FC3's alsa version (and the 2.6.10 kernel) have 
>> an old version of ALSA (unless the new kernel has an update ALSA 
>> patch applied, which might be the case), in which situation, you'd 
>> still require the rest of the packages... Try to check the 
>> documentaton on http://alsa.opensrc.org
>>
> This issue is known. One workabout is to mute the second headphone 
> (using alsamixer). Or you can recompile kernel, which helped me as 
> well :)
>
If you install the latest ALSA drivers, you don't need to re-build the 
kernel, since you'd be effectively wiping out the old drivers, but 
that's just me... ;)