Fedora Core 3 - sound test crashes system...
David Cary Hart
Fedora at TQMcube.com
Tue Jan 11 22:15:00 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:52 -0500, Michael Mayhew wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have reached my wit's end with this one. I have been to a number of
> forums (linuxcompatibility.org, linuxnewbies.org, etc.) and am just looking
> for some kind of direction.
Are there any messages in the syslog or dmesg? That's usually a good
place to start.
>
> My Creative SoundBlaster32 sound card is recognized at installation and
> by the sound configuration tool after installation. However, when I run the
> sound test at either time, the system freezes and I am forced to restart.
>
> When that happens, the startup usually stalls at "Searching for new
> hardware".
>
> I have tried an Audigy card in addition to this one with the same result.
> I have made sure that the onboard sound for my Soyo motherboard was disabled
> in BIOS. I had installed Fedora Core 3 (previously Fedora Core 1) in hopes
> that with updated driver support the error might be flushed out, but no
> dice.
>
> It sounds like some kind of hardware conflict (IRQ assignment, etc.) but
> I am definitely shooting in the dark.
>
> Any kind of assistance with this issue would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Michael
>
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