Fedora Core 3 & Dell 4700

[mylar]

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 14:18, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:10:27PM -0500, mylar wrote:
> > Hi, I rarely ask for help and usually figure things out myself but I am
> > faced with an issue here involving a recently purchased desktop.
> > 
> > My Dad recently bought a brand new Dell 4700 Desktop machine with MS
> > Windows XP pre-installed. On his request I added a IDE hard drive into
> > the machine onto which I installed Fedora Core 3 and made it into a dual
> > boot machine.
> > 
> > Everything works fine except for the Creative Soundblaster sound card.
> > According to Dell's hardware list for the machine  and according to the
> > Windows XP devices manager the card is a "Creative "Soundblaster Live
> > 24-bit" PCI sound card. Also referencing the model number stamped on the
> > bottom of the card itself it is a "Soundblaster Live 24-Bit" 
> > 
> > However when I ran "lspci" under Linux it reports the card as a
> > "Creative Soundblaster Audigy LS". So I downloaded and built the
> > appropriate ALSA modules with Audigy LS support inserted them into  the
> > kernel, ran "lsmod" to make sure things were in place and I got
> > bupkis... no audio, no sound, nothing...nada...zilch!!!
> 
> Sorry to ask the obvious, but we have to check these things.  Did you
> bring up a mixer (say, xmixer) and verify the levels were up?  By
> default, they are all the way down.
> 

I was unable to bring up a mixer. If I remember correctly I got an error
stating something to the effect " no mixer (device) available". Might I
have overloooked something?

Thanks

Mylar