more sound and other misc.

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

cam desautels wrote:

Well, give some symptoms and maybe someone can sort it out. When you say
that it doesn't work, do you get an error?  Does sound simply not come out?

Is your alsamixer muted? That is a common one.  Does the user in
question have permission to write to the sound device?


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fc2, dimension 8300 (similar problems with old dimension 410)

detect sound card run from root ... finds card but no test sound heard

gnome-sound-properties run from root ... on exit "audio_alsa: no cards
found!"

alsamixer run from root: alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for
default: no such device

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fc3, vaio vgn-a290

speakers working, bios plays tune on power-up and/or boot

detect sound card run from root ... finds card but no test sound heard

gnome-sound-properties run from root ... shows menu, no errors

alsamixer run from root: alsamixer shows a bunch of sound level stuff
set in the "green" at 75%; no error messages

aumix run in root xterm shows vol at about 75%