[F8] Can not configure sound AC97

[stan]

Vnpenguin wrote:
> On 11/14/07, stan <goedigi89__e at cox.net> wrote:
>   
>> This is probably a pulseaudio issue.  To check, do a
>> yum remove pulseaudio-alsa
>> If sound works like it did in Fedora 7 after this, then there is a
>> misconfiguration in the pulseaudio - ALSA link.
>>
>> I don't need any of the functionality that pulseaudio provides so
>> I turned it off in the configuration file (go to www.pulseaudio.org for
>> documentation as there doesn't appear to be any packaged with Fedora).
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>     
>
> Hi,
> Now I can play music with audacious, but only under root :(
> With normal user I can not.
>
> Try some commands :
>
> $ alsamixer
>
> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
>
> $ alsacard
> Open error: No such device
>
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Thanks,
>
>   
You can try running aplay -lLv to see if there is a default device.
If there is, something is blocking your access to it.  It might be 
permissions as Frank says, or it could be that something else is 
grabbing the soundcard, or it could be that your default device which is 
usually hw:0,0 is actually not there if you have more than one sound 
card.  Check /etc/modprobe.conf to see how your cards are organized.

The fact that you can play sound at all means that your card is 
recognized and the proper driver is loaded.  It is just a matter of 
configuration now.