root only sound?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Mar 28 15:02:56 UTC 2006
Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 09:39 -0500, Gordon R. Keehn wrote:
>> I've been trying to get Fedora to recognize my Crystal-based sound
>> "card" since Fedora Core 1. I just upgraded to Core 5, and thought I
>> had it. When I signed on to my root account to perform initial setup, I
>> tried the Soundcard Recognition applet one more time, and to my complete
>> joy, it finally worked. "Aha!", says I, "They finally got it right."
>> Then I rebooted and signed on to my user account, and no sound. I
>> started the Soundcard Recognition applet again, entered my root password
>> when prompted, and watched as it found no evidence that I had any sound
>> support installed.
>> Am I going to have to run as root to listen to my favorite audio
>> stream? Why is it so hard for Fedora to recognize a chipset that worked
>> perfectly up through Redhat 9? I know it's a minor issue, and the guys
>> behind the distribution do a monumental job as it is, but it's a bit
>> discouraging.
>> Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me get sound working
>> permanently. (Or at least, until the next upgrade when I'm sure the
>> whole thing will start over again.)
>> Cheers,
>> Gordon Keehn
> ----
> just an untested thought...
>
> bb if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/sda-bootblock.bin bs=512 count=1
> bb if=/dev/sdb of=/tmp/sdb-bootblock.bin bs=512 count=1
>
> diff /tmp/sda-bootblock.bin /tmp/sdb-bootblock.bin
>
> Thinking...
>
> - substitute different values for sda/sdb as fits
> - the first 512 bytes on each drive are the boot (perhaps less, someone
> will surely correct me...it might just be the first 256 or 384 bytes)
> - if they are the same (i.e. grub has been installed on both), there
> will be no diff
>
> otherwise...
>
> grub-install /dev/sdb
>
> Of course, the only way that you'll ever KNOW for sure that it's going
> to work is to do a real simulation, i.e. disconnecting one drive, then
> the other drive...
>
> Craig
Better get yourself a coffee Craig.
s/bb/dd/ and please try to reply to the right post...
Cheers, Paul.
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