Which alsa packages are default in Fedora 10

[stan]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Friday 05 December 2008 21:46, stan wrote:
>> Nigel Henry wrote:
>>> I'm trying to help someone with sound problems on Fedora 10. I don't have
>>> F10 installed, and am not sure which alsa packages are installed on a
>>> fresh install of F10.
>>>
>>> I know the alsa-driver is 1.0.17, but he is showing alsa-lib as
>>> 1.0.18rc3, and alsa-utils as 1.0.18. This seems a bit strange, as the
>>> alsa driver is an earlier version than those for alsa-lib, and
>>> alsa-utils.
>>>
>>> Could someone have a look in Yumex, and see which alsa-lib, and
>>> alsa-utils versions are installed on their machine.
>>>
>>> Please say whether this is after or before doing a post install yum
>>> update, and if the rpmfusion repo's are enabled, or not.
>>>
>>> Many thanks for replies.
>>>
>>> Nigel.
>> I don't know about default, but I have the following alsa
>> packages on a fully updated Fedora 10 x86_64 system after
>> customizing.
>>
>> alsa-lib.i386                        1.0.18-6.rc3.fc10
>>     installed
>> alsa-lib.x86_64                      1.0.18-6.rc3.fc10
>>     installed
>> alsa-lib-devel.x86_64                1.0.18-6.rc3.fc10
>>     installed
>> alsa-oss.x86_64                      1.0.17-1.fc10
>>     installed
>> alsa-oss-devel.x86_64                1.0.17-1.fc10
>>     installed
>> alsa-oss-libs.x86_64                 1.0.17-1.fc10
>>     installed
>> alsa-plugins-jack.x86_64             1.0.18-1.rc3.fc10
>>     installed
>> alsa-plugins-oss.x86_64              1.0.18-1.rc3.fc10
>>     installed
>> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64       1.0.18-1.rc3.fc10
>>     installed
>> alsa-plugins-samplerate.x86_64       1.0.18-1.rc3.fc10
>>     installed
>> alsa-plugins-upmix.x86_64            1.0.18-1.rc3.fc10
>>     installed
>> alsa-plugins-vdownmix.x86_64         1.0.18-1.rc3.fc10
>>     installed
>> alsa-tools.x86_64                    1.0.17-1.fc10
>>     installed
>> alsa-utils.x86_64                    1.0.18-6.fc10
>>     installed
>> alsamixergui.x86_64                  0.9.0-0.4.rc1.fc9.2
>>     installed
>> balsa.x86_64                         2.3.26-2.fc10
>>     installed
>> bluez-alsa.x86_64                    4.17-2.fc10
>>     installed
>> callweaver-alsa.x86_64               1.2.0.1-1.2.fc10
>>     installed
>> python-alsaaudio.x86_64              0.3-1.fc9
>>     installed
>>
>> I'm not sure if the alsa-lib.i386 is necessary or caused by
>> some fumbling around I've done.
> 
> Thanks Stan.
> 
> That sort of looks like there should be no problem in having an earlier 
> version of the alsa driver than the versions of alsa-lib, and alsa-utils.
> 
> I'm trying to help someone with sound problems with Fedora 10. All sound 
> modules are loaded, but no soundcard detected.
> 
> This is on an OQO pocket pc machine. He has another 3 of these machines, which 
> are using Centos 5.2, and sound is working on these, but no sounds from the 
> one with Fedora 10 installed.
> 
>  www.oqo.com
> 
> Centos 5.2 is using alsa driver version 1.0.14rc3, and sounds are fine, yet 
> Fedora 10 using alsa driver 1.0.17, has all snd modules loaded, but no 
> soundcard detected.
> 
> The thread starts yesterday, with the subject line.
> F10-No sound on my OQO
> 
> Any suggestions to resolving Robert's problem
> 
> Links to the output after running the alsa-info.sh script below.
> 
> The link below is the output from running alsa-info.sh on F10
> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a984f3d7859f7c239c6ecf2cbf5614a1fbdd6c
> 
> And the link below is the output for running alsa-info.sh on his Centos 
> installs.
> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=5d592ffd6dd37b033a165c4c4701651b84d76155
> 
> Nigel.
> 
The centos alsa identified the hda intel as a
Codec: SigmaTel STAC9200
He needs to pass the parameter model=STAC9200 to alsa to 
give it a hint.  Obviously, the version of alsa on Fedora 10 
isn't able to figure it out by itself.  Pass it either in 
modprobe.conf or as a parameter to a modprobe command.  You 
can find these models in the alsa-driver source package in
alsa-kernel/Documentation/ALSA-Configuration.txt

You know, I'll kick myself if I ever buy a sound device with 
an hda-intel chipset.  90% of the problems with sound on 
linux must be due to that chipset.  I wonder why Intel 
didn't at least give a standard design template to their 
customers so they would all have a chance of being 
standardized.  Insane!