soundcard not detected on fedora 5

theuser666 · 05-10-2006, 02:36 AM

hi, i am a new user of linux. after i installed fedora 5 everything worked just fine(sound included). then, after a couple of days, the system could not detect my soundcard. from what i found on the net, i think i mite be haveing troubles with alsa. i looked and it was not installed so after installing it i used the command #alsamixer and the aplication can not start and responds "alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device". please help me. nothing i found on the internet was very helpfull

xpromisex · 05-11-2006, 11:40 AM

Try switching to your root user and issuing "alsaconf" to try to redetect the sound card. Then do "alsamixer" to see if it helped. Post back, if you would, with success or failure so I can help some more if it's needed.

theuser666 · 05-12-2006, 03:42 AM

when i issue the command alsaconf it says "bash: alsaconf: command not found".
i have alsa installed and it reacts like it is not.

sonnik · 05-12-2006, 05:00 AM

Fedora has a "Soundcard Detection" application in your Window Manager. Does that work?

Try a lspci from a command prompt to make sure the soundcard is seen,

Check /var/log/messages to see if there are any mentions of sound cards or sound card problems...

theuser666 · 05-15-2006, 07:56 AM

the "Soundcard Detection" application say's "no soundcard detected". in command prompt lspli " bash: lspci: command not found"

con · 05-15-2006, 09:05 AM

you have to run `lspci` as root

theuser666 · 05-17-2006, 02:30 AM

when i run lspci as root it says 'bash: lspci: command not found' and i have pciutils-2.2.1-1.2.x86_64.rpm installed.

shikhar82 · 05-17-2006, 05:15 AM

Dear Friends,
Recently i have installed Linux 9.0 in my pc.It is working fine but my sound card is not detecting.I am new to Linux, so it become difficult to me to sort out this problem.kindly help me .........