FC2 Sound problem fixed. Sort of.

sybian · 05-22-2004, 05:11 AM

Use to be the case that i had no sound at all. No errors when i play music either. Just nothing.

I checked all volume settings everywhere and found nothing unusual. When i played something with XMMS, you could see the eq moving, but no noise.

Figured out how to turn the sound on. have to run alsaconf , choose the SB Audigy, tell it i don't want to edit the modules.conf and then run system-config-soundcard .

Is there a way to make this happen automagically?

nyk · 05-22-2004, 07:38 AM

have you tryed alsamixer?

strange thing is, I dont even have alsaconf in my FC2...

sybian · 05-22-2004, 08:21 AM

Tried what with it? Changing volume? yep.

Besides, kmix shows same values as alsamixer

jspaar · 05-22-2004, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sybian
Figured out how to turn the sound on. have to run alsaconf , choose the SB Audigy, tell it i don't want to edit the modules.conf and then run system-config-soundcard .

Is there a way to make this happen automagically?

Yeah - you do want alsaconf to edit modprobe.conf. Here's what the sound portion of my modprobe.conf looks like now that sound is working:

Code:

# 2 lines below save/restore mixer settings
install snd-cmipci /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-cmipci && { /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
remove snd-cmipci { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-cmipci
 
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.4 ---
alias snd-card-0 snd-cmipci
alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

You can tell the bottom part was added by alsaconf. The top part you might have to add by hand. Of course, change snd-cmipci everywhere to the module that alsaconf uses on your machine.

People who do a fresh FC2 install won't have alsaconf, because the FC2 version of alsa-utils is slightly older than the one that some FC1 users installed from livna. But they don't have this problem anyway, right?

abd_bela · 05-23-2004, 06:23 AM

hi every body
I have tthe sound problem too.
in redhat 8.0 and previous the card is detected , isapnp card ( Ess model ).
but not in FC2.
I installed sndconfig ( which doesn't exist here) from RH8. When I use it to detected the card there is a problem with module.
Kudzu also does'nt recognize my card. very strange ( it was with RH, Suse, Debian ..)
How to fix my problem thank you very much

Another problem when I tried to read a mp3 files it said that it was removed from Redhat because license or something like that. How to read a mp3 file then.

thaks a lot
bela