How to get sound working in F9

[GN]

Waleed Harbi wrote:
> What is your sound card?
> try use *alsamixer *command.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:51 PM, GN <gnichols at tpg.com.au 
> <mailto:gnichols at tpg.com.au>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     Can someone please give me some clues on how to get sound working in F9.
> 
>     The System> Preferences > Hardware > Sound doesn't look anything like
>     that shown in the help file and I am stymied.
> 
>     My /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf file has me authed for everything.
>     No errors show for pulseaudio --check
> 
>     Ta,
> 
>     GN
Hi Waleed,

Sound card is Intel Corp 82801H (ICH Family) HD Audio Controller (Rev 03)

/usr/bin/alsamixer gives 'No mixer elems found'.

Also, clicking on the volume contrtol gives the following:

The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. 
This means either that you don't have the right GStreamer plugins 
installed, or that you don't have a sound card configured.

You can remove the volume control from the panel by right-clicking the 
speaker icon on the panel and selecting "Remove From Panel" from the menu.

All the gstreamer packages that came with F9 are installed:

gstreamer-0.10.19-1.fc9.i386.rpm
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.19-2.fc9.i386.rpm
gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux-0.10.15-2.fc9.i386.rpm
gstreagstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.8-7.fc9.i386.rpm
gstreamer-plugins-pulse-0.9.5-0.5.svn20070924.fc9.i386.rpm
gstreamer-python-0.10.11-2.fc9.i386.rpm
gstreamer-tools-0.10.19-1.fc9.i386.rpm

This seems to indicate that no sound card has been configured. Fair enough.

dmesg says that the sound card has been found. dmesg | grep sound shows 
the following:

ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1810: chipset global capabilities = 0x4401
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:749: codec_mask = 0x7
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2857: autoconfig: line_outs=1 
(0x1a/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2861:    speaker_outs=1 
(0x14/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2865:    hp_outs=1 (0x15/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2866:    mono: mono_out=0x0
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2874:    inputs: mic=0x18, fmic=0x19, 
line=0x0, fline=0x0, cd=0x0, aux=0x0
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2857: autoconfig: line_outs=0 
(0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2861:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2865:    hp_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2866:    mono: mono_out=0x0
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2874:    inputs: mic=0x0, fmic=0x0, 
line=0x0, fline=0x0, cd=0x0, aux=0x0
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Surround Playback 
Volume, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Center Playback 
Volume, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave LFE Playback 
Volume, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Side Playback 
Volume, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Mono Playback 
Volume, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Line-Out Playback 
Volume, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Surround Playback 
Switch, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Center Playback 
Switch, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave LFE Playback 
Switch, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Side Playback 
Switch, skipped
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Mono Playback 
Switch, skipped
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Front Playback Volume:0 is 
already present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Front Playback Switch:0 is 
already present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Headphone Playback Volume:0 
is already present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Headphone Playback Switch:0 
is already present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Mic Boost:0 is already present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Front Mic Boost:0 is 
already present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Capture Volume:0 is already 
present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Capture Switch:0 is already 
present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:Input Source:0 is already 
present
ALSA sound/core/control.c:329: control 2:0:0:IEC958 Playback Con Mask:0 
is already present.

I am well and truly confused. Does any of the above make sense to you?

Ta,

GN