FC5->FC6 upgrade broke my sound

Hadders fedora at workingwithit.com
Sun Dec 10 04:30:45 UTC 2006


Hadders wrote:
> 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
>
whoops, that's alsactl, no r




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