F7 & F8 sound problems

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 16:59 -0800, cromworshipper-fedorastuff at yahoo.com
wrote:
> My problems are summarised in two bug reports:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=366061
> https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3594
> 
> system-config-soundcard plays nothing at all, and speaker-test plays
> on only one speaker.  About a month before F8 came out, sound would
> work intermittently.  With F8, I haven't gotten it to work at all.
> I've uninstalled all the pulse-audio RPMs and their remnants just to
> simplify this.  The bugzilla ticket I filed hasn't seen much action
> that I've seen.
> 
> How do I get sound to work on this machine properly?  My most recent
> attempt was to compile and install directly from the mercurial
> sources.  I don't see any changes in the behaviour of my machine when
> I did that.  I don't really understand ALSA or sound so my ability to
> debug this is limited, but I'm willing to try patches or debug builds
> if available.
> 
> 
> For fun, check out all the sound bugs with Fedora 7 & 8, there are
> quite a few:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?product=Fedora&version=f7&version=f8&component=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=MODIFIED&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=sound&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=

The fact that only one speaker works sounds like a hardware problem but here are
 things to look at:
1. identify the soundcard from boot messages and lspci or lshal.
2. check the correct module is being loaded in /etc/modprobe.conf . Also
	check lsmod
3. check alsamixer to see if appropriate sound levels are ok. No level
should have MM at base, meaning it is muted. Typing m changes it.



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