Funny things....with sound

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Fri, 9/12/08, Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Funny things....with sound
> To: olivares14031 at yahoo.com, "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Antonio M" <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>
> Date: Friday, September 12, 2008, 6:02 AM
> On 12/09/2008, Antonio Olivares
> <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Ironically sound works on one of my two machines
> running rawhide.  On the
> > one that does not work, I check alsamixer and all the
> tabs are at 0, I
> > change them as they were before, but still cannot get
> any sound.  Updates to
> > alsa showed 1.0.18rc? and alsamixer still shows
> 1.0.17?  Strange?
> 
> Sounds like you have an extra audio device (usb?) and that
> it's got
> modprobed first. You need something in modprobe.conf (or a
> file in
> /etc/modprobe.d) but I can't remember the exact
> incantation. Luckily
> someone posted exactly what you need to one of the Fedora
> lists in the
> last week ... something like:
> 
> alias snd-slot-0 $driver
> options $driver index=0
> alias snd-slot-1 snd-usb-audio
> options snd-usb-audio index=1
> 
> This only works when there's only one usb device,
> though, by the looks of it :-/
> 
> I suspect what's really needed is more control over the
> order they're probed.

I do not have usb sound :(

[olivares at localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root at localhost ~]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:0304 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 810c/812c
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
[root at localhost ~]# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: nForce2 [NVidia nForce2], device 0: Intel ICH [NVidia nForce2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: nForce2 [NVidia nForce2], device 2: Intel ICH - IEC958 [NVidia nForce2 - IEC958]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
[root at localhost ~]#

[root at localhost ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 forcedeth
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv
alias scsi_hostadapter1 pata_pcmcia
alias scsi_hostadapter2 sata_via
alias scsi_hostadapter3 sata_svw
alias scsi_hostadapter4 sata_vsc
alias scsi_hostadapter5 pata_ali
alias scsi_hostadapter6 pata_amd
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0


Sound was working previously since Fedora 6 or Fedora 5 Test series, but recent updates and/or pulseaudio have wrecked it :(

Thanks,

Antonio