FC5->FC6 upgrade broke my sound

Hadders fedora at workingwithit.com
Sun Dec 10 04:20:03 UTC 2006


Ric Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:19 -0500, Don Levey wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 20:26 -0600, Chris Mohler wrote:
>>     
>>>> Sadly, everything is unmuted.  I've tried various combinations too, as
>>>> the sound card on the MB is potentially one of those 6-channel deals.
>>>>  -Don
>>>>         
>>> Yuck.  Do you have multiple 'outs'?  Does the headphone or other jack
>>> produce sound?
>>>
>>>       
>> There are three jacks on the back of the machine: line in, line out, and
>> mic.  The line out has been the headphone/speaker jack.  None of them
>> seem to produce sound.  In 6-channel mode they'd all be some form of
>> "out".
>>
>>
>>     
>>> I'm shooting in the dark - your 'lsmod | grep snd' looks OK to me.
>>> FWIW, my relevant modprobe line appear thusly (diff't soundcard
>>> though):
>>> alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
>>> options snd-card-0 index=0
>>> options snd-hda-intel index=0
>>> remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin
>>> /modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel
>>>
>>> Not much help - maybe someone else has ideas...
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>       
>> I hope someone has additional ideas.  Thanks, Chris!
>>  -Don
>>     
> Edit modprobe and remove all alsa and oss settings, turn the computer
> completely off, see if you can turn the sound device off in your bios,
> before you boot back up, remove all .asound files or anything you can
> recall that has to do with sound configuration and settings. Get 'em
> all. Turn the computer back off, turn it back on, edit bios to re-enable
> the sound-device then proceed with the boot. Hopefully kudzo, or
> whatever the heck the name of the util for hardware is, will find it and
> set it up correctly. If it works, don't mess with it! An upgrade can be
> dangerous like that when things change from one release to the next with
> major changes. Old setup files go ape. <grins> Ric 
>
>
>   
I've just reinstalled FC5, one thing was the "alsamixer" settings. I 
needed to unmute "M" my Audigy Outputs.
I put an audio CD in and started with CDPlayer, bought up alsamixer and 
tweaked in realtime.
Then I saved with 'alsactrl store'

This may or may not help you.

Hadders




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