No Sound on Fedora 10 with Audigy SB

[Nigel Henry]

On Saturday 31 January 2009 20:46, RDB wrote:
> Hello,
> I've searched this in the archive and on the internet and still haven't
> found anything.
> I have Creative Audigy SB sound card. It doesn't work on F10. When logging
> in to KDE, KDE says something about pulse audio doesn't work, and phonon is
> falling back to use Audigy, but I still don't have any sound.
> I tried GNOME and still doesn't have sound.
>
> I thought there used to be "system-config-soundcard" , but I couldn't find
> that either. Below is some relevant output of lspci and lsmod in case it
> helps diagnosing the problem.
>
> I still have FC 7 on the system (multi-boot), and just confirmed that the
> sound works on FC 7.
>
> Thanks for any help.
> RDB
>
>
> $] lspci
> ...
> 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 05)
> ...
>
> $ lsmod  | grep snd
> snd_emu10k1_synth      15616  0
> snd_emux_synth         43392  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
> snd_seq_virmidi        14080  1 snd_emux_synth
> snd_seq_midi_emul      14080  1 snd_emux_synth
> snd_emu10k1           152720  4 snd_emu10k1_synth
> snd_rawmidi            30848  2 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
> snd_ac97_codec        121160  1 snd_emu10k1
> ac97_bus               10112  1 snd_ac97_codec
> snd_seq_dummy          11396  0
> snd_seq_oss            39104  0
> snd_seq_midi_event     14848  2 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq                61968  8
> snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,
>snd_seq_midi_event snd_pcm_oss            52224  0
> snd_mixer_oss          23168  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                85512  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_seq_device         15380  7
> snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_
>seq_oss,snd_seq snd_timer              30352  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc         16656  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
> snd_util_mem           12416  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
> snd_hwdep              16392  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
> snd                    68984  23
> snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_emu1
>0k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss
>,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep
> soundcore              14992  1 snd

Try opening alsamixer as below, as maybe some sliders are down, or controls 
muted. The "M" key does the mute/unmute. Check the "Analog A" switch.

alsamixer -D :hw0

If that fails to work, disable pulseaudio, with the command below.
yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio

Doing this will also remove the kde-settings-pulseaudio package

Reboot, and see if the sounds are now working with pulseaudio out of the 
equation.

All the best to you, and the worst to pulseaudio.

Nigel.