Fedora Core 3 sound problems.....?

[Jerry DeLisle]

Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm new at this Linux thing and i've just installed Fedora Core 3 on
> my desktop, so i hope someone would be kind enough to help me out with
> my problems.
> 
> After installing Fedora, the first thing i notice is that i can't play
> any VCD, DVD or even normal audio CDs; I "tested" my soundcard and it
> work find because i can hear the sample sound played in the "Sound
> Card Detection" section and i can also hear all the system events
> sounds.... so far that is my worries after installing Fedora into my
> desktop apart from not being able to access my NTFS partition but that
> i can solve..... so pls help me out with my sound ( & video )
> problems. thanks
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I seem to have exactly the same problem. I cann't hear an audio cd and i 
> cann't play a dvd (movie).
> 
> Testing the soundcard (system settings - soundcard detection) shows 
> audio device, model and module. When i hit
> "play test sound" i hear the test sound very well. I changed permissions 
> of /dev/hdb (my cd-rom drive) to 664, but
> this made no difference. I checked the alsamixer for muted switches or 
> low volume levels. When i try to play a
> audio-cd i can read all the tracks, so the cd-player is picking up a 
> signal at least. Here is my lspci:
> ]# lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub 
> Interface (rev 02)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI 
> Controller #1 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI 
> Controller #2 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 
> (rev 02)00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB 
> UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI 
> Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface 
> Bridge (rev 02)
> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE 
> Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 
> 02)
> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) 
> AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 NJ [Radeon 
> 9800 XT]
> 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 NJ [Radeon 9800 
> XT] (Secondary)
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3886 [Prism 
> Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01)
> 02:02.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134 (rev 01)
> 02:04.0 Communication controller: Intel Corp. 536EP Data Fax Modem
> 02:09.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105 [Rhine-III] 
> (rev 8b)
> 02:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host 
> Controller (rev 46)
> 
> And here are my loaded sound modules:
> $ /sbin/lsmod | grep snd
> snd_intel8x0           32865  2
> snd_ac97_codec         67105  1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_pcm_oss            47861  0
> snd_mixer_oss          17089  2 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                92233  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer              28357  1 snd_pcm
> snd                    52261  8 
> snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> soundcore               9889  3 saa7134,snd
> snd_page_alloc          9541  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> 
> I followed the suggestion of a post to change the playmode in xmms from 
> analog to digital, but this also made no difference.
> I am running FC3, kernel 2.6.10-1.741.
> I hope somebody can give me a clue.
> Thanks, Peter.
> 

Go into the main menu under sounds and open the volume control 
application.  Make sure things are not checked muted and that sliders 
are not at zero.

Jerry