No sound. Intel 82801BA/BAM AC '97. revisited.

[David Curry]

Edward wrote:

> Nat Gross wrote:
>
>> Nat Gross wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, friends. It's time to sound off. (umm.. I mean sound ON. How 
>>> long can I go without sound?)
>>> I have followed various threads about this but I have never got 
>>> sound with Linux on this machine, whose sound hardware is working 
>>> under dualboot Windoz.
>>> Hardware: Dell 4500 with 82801BA/BAM AC'97.
>>> OS: FC3 2.6.10-1.770
>>>
>>
>> Seems like this is beyond help on fc3. Do I have a better chance with 
>> sound on FC4T1?
>> Thanks;
>> -nat
>
>
> Just my 2c on this - I HOPE SO.
>
> Sound is a major problem on FC3. I'm sick of having to work around it. 
> Why on earth the mixer has those weird defaults which simply don't 
> work is beyond me.
>
> Basically the only way I can get sound to work is:
>
> 1> Detect the sound card.
> 2> Use alsa-mixer to unmute all and pump the volumes up to the highest 
> possible.
> 3> Use alsa save command to then save those settings.
> 4> Then in my rc.local I run the alsa restore command to load them up 
> at boot-up.
>
> This is the only way I can get sound to work 100% of the time. If 
> there's an easier way I'm all ears, but why oh why does it have to be 
> so involved. I'm not a newbie anymore, so working around things is 
> second nature, but why do we have to? I did not have these problems in 
> the Redhat series, FC1 or FC2. You detected the sound card (or the 
> installer/kudzu did it) and that was it.
>
> Admittedly I only have to do the above once for each PC I install FC3 
> on, but still.
>
> I don't think it's worthy of a bugzilla, but if any Fedora developers 
> are listening on this list, bumping up the priority on making sound 
> work better on FC4 would be heaven for newbies methinks.
>
> Regards,
> Ed.
>
Another vote/request for more attention to sound development and install 
default settings!  For desktop system ops who regularly shutdown 
systems, default sound settings in FC2 (and apparently FC3) are/were an 
irritating PITA -- particularly so if they are linux/fedora newbies or 
neophytes.