Lost sound on my notebook after FC5 upgrade

[Tod Merley]

On 8/9/06, Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 02:06 -0700, Tod Merley wrote:
>
> > Did a "locate sound" (you have to do an "updatedb" as root first - it
> > catalogs all of your file names for locate to use then any key will
> > find).  Got a lot so did a "locate sound > locatesound.text" (makes a
> > big file of the results of the above command called locatesound.text)
> > and then did a "less locatesound.text" to read the file page by page.
> > In the list was "/var/lib/alsa/asound.state" an so I did a
> > "less /var/lib/alsa/asound.state" and found apparently a list of the
> > ins and outs of my sound system and thier current settings.  This
> > tells me that alsa is how I do sound on the is box (Ubuntu Dapper).
>
>         I mucked around with this a bit and found /etc/asound.state and
> ran a
> few of the alsa utilities but still no joy.  All the programs and
> utilities say everything is fine and the wav files are being played but
> there's no sound.
>
> > Did some googling.  The most common comment associated with your "FC5
> > sound problem after update" was that they tend to mute the sound after
> > an update.  On Ubuntu I have a sound applett on my button bar in
> > Gnome.  When left clicked I can control volume when right clicked I
> > can open a "volume control" (center (Volume Control 2.4.12 (Alsa
> > Mixer))) where I can control the muted or un-muted state of various
> > audio in's and out's.
>
>         I check this and it's unmuted.
>
> > The second is that they sometimes forget to comple ALSA into the
> > Kernel.  I might consider doing another update.  Alaways a risk with
> > updates though.
>
>         I might go and try OSS (I've always preferred it, myself) to see
> if    I mucked around with this a bit and found /etc/asound.state and ran a
> few of the alsa utilities but still no joy.  All the programs and
> utilities say everything is fine and the wav files are being played but
> there's no sound.
>
> it's in the SW or the HW.
>
> > Well, I hope I have done more good than ill here - I hope you do find
> > it.  Please write back and tell us how you are doing with this.
>
>         Thanks for replying and I will let you know if anything comes of
> this.
>
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> a bit and found /etc/asound.state and ran a
> few of the alsa utilities but still no joy.  All the programs and
> utilities say everything is fine and the wav files are being played but
> there's no sound.
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> mucked around with this a bit and found /etc/asound.state and ran a
> few of the alsa utilities but still no joy.  All the programs and
> utilities say everything is fine and the wav files are being played but
> there's no sound.



Hi Joe!

When I hear from you:

    I mucked around with this a bit and found /etc/asound.state and ran a
few of the alsa utilities but still no joy.  All the programs and
utilities say everything is fine and the wav files are being played but
there's no sound.

And also that you have checked the states of the in(s)/out(s) several  times
I think that it is time to look a bit at HW.

1. I like to use known headphones for this type of troubleshooting.
Speakers that have just been run on a "same sound card" system can also be
good.  Put the SW /HW volume controls all the way up, and also listen to
speakers first at the "standard" level and then at a higher level.  Try all
the ports (outputs) but not the "line out" into the headphone if it does not
handle the headphone impedance.

1.a Sometimes I have run into a system that likes a 24 bit (24 bits per
audio sample) sound but has 16 bit sound to work with.  If you think about
it the 16 bit "ceiling" (largest numerical number) will be 1/256th of that
for 24 bit or 20 some db down.  So, look for a "little" sound somewhere.

2. Try all differant kinds of sound files. .aiff .flac etc...

3. Might be a good time to try a differant sound card.  At any of our
"RE-PC" used computer stores here I can pick up a turlte beach for under
5$.  PCI and reasonable quality.

Good Hunting!

Tod
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