sound problem -- fixed

[Michael Wright]

I'll keep that in-mind Gerhard if i come into problems 

Mick Wright 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerhard Magnus" <magnus at agora.rdrop.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: sound problem -- fixed


> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 22:28 +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
>> On Wednesday 09 November 2005 21:56, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
>> 
>> > Anand Buddhdev <arb at anand.org> writes:
>> > > This is a known issue on FC4. What you need to do is open the
>> > > mixer, and look for the switch "analogue/digital output jack" and
>> > > turn it on. Then your sound will play just fine. I don't know why
>> > > it default to the off position, but it's frustrating if you don't
>> > > know about it.
>> >
>> > Could you please describe it in more detail? I use the GNOME desktop,
>> > and have looked for this switch in the
>> >
>> > Applications->Sound&Video->Volume Control
>> >
>> > tool, but I could not find it. And no, I am not the original poster,
>> > I just have the same problem.
>> 
>> I don't use Gnome, so I can't describe the precise steps. I think that 
>> if you right click on the little volume control applet in the top 
>> right-hand corner, it will give you the choice of opening the mixer.
>> 
>> Alternatively, open a terminal window, and run the program "alsamixer". 
>> You'll see a screen with many vertical bars, each representing the 
>> volume of a particular channel or component. Use the right arrow key to 
>> scroll to the analogue/digital output jack. When you come to it, you'll 
>> see that it probably has MM under it. Type the 'M' key on the keyboard 
>> to unmute it, and your sound will work.
>> 
>> Anand
> I still haven't been able to find any analog/digital output switch to
> un-mute.  But what turned out to be successful in fixing this problem
> was "yum update alsa*"
> 
> Jerry
> 
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