Sound for M7NCG 400 Motherboard running FC3

[Jay Moore]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:08 -0700, Richard E Miles wrote:

> > How in the world do I get the sound working on my M7NCG 400 mobo?
> > 
> > "System Settings... Soundcard Detection" confirms what I've read: nVidia
> > AC97 is the audio device, but I just get no sound. 
> > 
> > Can someone point me to a resource that explains how to sort this out?
> > 
> Did you try to set up your soundcard:?
> Click on Desktop then preferences then sound. What card does it find and does the
> play sound work?

Yes - I tried - I clicked "Applications... System Settings... Soundcard
Detection"

A prompt for root pw comes up, then a small window labeled "Audio
Devices" comes up, and says:
 
 "The following audio device was detected

 Vendor: nVidia
 Model: Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP)
 Module: snd-intel8x0 

There is a "Play Test Sound" button. I press it, but no sound.

When I inspect "Applications... Prefernces... Sound", I get a small
window that has "Enable Sound server setup" checked. However, on the
Sound Events tab, trying to play various sound files produces nothing. 

Under "Applications... Preferences... More Preferences... Multimedia
Systems Selector" I get a window titled "GStreamer Preferences" w/
Default source and sinks set to ALSA. But when I click the "Test"
button, I get an error message to the effect "failed to construct test
pipeline". 

I have no clue what this means :(

ANy ideas are appreciated... everything else on this system works
perfectly w/ FC3, and it seems the sound chip used is mainstream... I'm
stumped!

-- 
Jay Moore <jaymo at mail.bokler.com>