Slightly trickier sound prob

Pedroski · 11-06-2009, 07:40 PM

I just installed Fed. 11
The sound didn't work.
I read a lot and searched around, found:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...problems+sound

Now I have sound, can play a CD! Woohoo!

But: if I plug in my external speakers, no sound! Boohoo¡¿

Anyone know how to solve this? I have an Asus Laptop. Before I upgraded Ubuntu, everything worked. Now nothing works in Ubuntu, so I installed Fed on another partition.

AuroraZero · 11-23-2009, 01:04 AM

What desktop is this gnome or kde? In kde you have to turn on the external amp and tell it you are using the line for speakers. Whether it be a headphone jack or line or etc.....

Pedroski · 11-24-2009, 02:42 AM

Thanks.

I seem to have got the hang of Pulse. I like it! But my problem is the hardware. Experts have taken the comp apart. There is nothing wrong. It just doesn't work. (That was the expert opinion) Must be a failure in the sound chip. Sadly, I don't have my receipt. They gave me a workaround: a usb stick with sound output. But it has a lot of fuzz, like badly tuned in radio. I don't know, but I think laptops have an on-board sound chip, so I can't just replace the sound-card.