Sound messed up

[Gerry Tool]

Xavier Bachelot wrote:

> Gerry Tool wrote:
>
>> I have an on-board C-Media CM8738 sound card.  It has worked fine in 
>> everything including FC1.  It seems to not work at all until I run 
>> system-config-soundcard and then it will play the test sound and I 
>> can play test sounds in Start Here > Preferences > Sound.  The boxes 
>> labeled Enable sound server startup and Sounds for events are both 
>> checked. However, I do not hear the event sounds I do in FC1.
>>
> So your sound card is a least working, if you do hear sound from the 
> setup app :-)
>
>> I cannot get an ogg file to play.  If I click on a .ogg file, Media 
>> Player opens and the file name scrolls by, but I get a dialog 
>> "Couldn't open audio.  Please check that your soundcard is configured 
>> properly, You have the correct output plugin selected, No other 
>> program is blocking the soundcard."
>>
> Check out that the media player (xmms ?) is using alsa output plugin

That cleared that up; xmms now works

> Also check that the channels are not muted (use amixer from CLI or a 
> mixer applet from KDE or Gnome)

Did this; CD volume is up, still no CD sound even though CD player 
thinks it's playing the song.

Thanks for your reply.

Gerry Tool