f8 sound is driving me crazy.

Paulo Cavalcanti promac at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 01:37:07 UTC 2008


On Feb 8, 2008 11:08 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 18:15 -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Feb 8, 2008 3:15 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >         Like another poster today sound in f8 is driving me crazy.
> >         Over the last
> >         decades I have installed 13 versions of Redhat and Fedora
> >         since 4.x but
> >         f8 has got me stymied. I am installing on an era 2000 Optiplex
> >         GXip with
> >         PIII and 384 M RAM.
> >
> >         My sound card is recognized and lines appear for its driver in
> >         modprobe.conf but the drivers are not loaded by default on
> >         boot. I had
> >         to a modprobe in rc.local.
> >
> >         The sound card configuration program plays its sounds.
> >
> >         Now the trouble starts. All the usual CD players claim they
> >         cannot find
> >         a sound source on the CD. The only one that works so far is
> >         grip.
> >
> > Grip needs a cable connecting the drive to the sound card.
> >
> A cable is there. Won't gnome-cd use a cable.?
> >
> >
> >         Video sequences produce no sound. I have tried this with
> >         pulseaudio and
> >         without it and there is no difference in behavior.
> >
> >         Any ideas would be accepted. Mplayer and its codecs are
> >         installed.
> >
> >         But me ask two questions:
> >         1. sound related. When I install the volume control in the
> >         panel it
> >         appears with little red x beside it. When I run it I get a
> >         error message
> >         that says:
> >         The volume control did not find any elements or devices to
> >         control.
> >         This means that either you don't have the right Gstreamer
> >         plugins
> >         installed or you don't have the sound card configured,
> >
> >
> > This has nothing to do with plugins. This is alsa related.
> >
> > Try
>
> > more /proc/asound/cards
> The command above results in:
>  0 [CS4236B        ]: CS4236B - CS4236B
>                      CS4236B at 0x534, irq 5, dma 1&3
> Whic I think is a problem because it is Card 0 that is being looked for.
> But I don't know what to do about it,
>

According to this thread

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-29438.html

you can try adding

options snd-cs4236 dma1=1 dma2=3 io=0x0534 irq=5

to your /etc/modprobe.conf and rebooting (of course, if this is the module
you are using).


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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