FC3 Still Hates Me: No Sound

[Kevin Kempter]

I had to run alsamixer and mute the external amplifier for my sound to work.


Dave wrote:

>OK, next gripe. It detects my hardware, loads modules, I've used alsamixer to 
>make sure it's unmuted, I've used aRTS Control Tool to turn up the volume, 
>I've checked settings under aumix, nothing. There's no longer a "volume 
>control" menu item under "Sound & Video" or I would have tried that.
>
>Not even a decent error message. system-config-soundcard says it found a VIA 
>VT8233/A 8235/8237 AC87 Audio Controller and used module 
>snd_via82xx. Hitting the 'play test sound' button produces the following 
>output in the terminal window: 
>
>Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
>  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
>  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
>  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
>  Front Left: Playback 23 [74%] [on]
>  Front Right: Playback 23 [74%] [on]
>Playing WAVE '/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav' : Signed 16 
>bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
>Warning: rate is not accurate (requested = 44100Hz, got = 48000Hz)
>         please, try the plug plugin (-Dplug:hw:0,0)
>
>No sound shows up.
>
>/dev/mixer shows up with rw permission for my userid.
>
>lsmod shows:
>snd                    54053  9 
>snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
>snd_ac97_codec         64401  1 snd_via82xx
>snd_mixer_oss          17217  1 snd_pcm_oss
>snd_mpu401_uart         8769  1 snd_via82xx
>snd_page_alloc          9673  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
>snd_pcm                97993  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm_oss
>snd_pcm_oss            47609  0
>snd_rawmidi            26725  1 snd_mpu401_uart
>snd_seq_device          8137  1 snd_rawmidi
>snd_timer              29765  1 snd_pcm
>snd_via82xx            27237  0
>soundcore               9889  1 snd
>
>Motherboard is an ECS K7VTA3.
>
>Suggestions?
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