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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