No Sound...Please Help
 

Hello Everyone,

Someone please help me so i wont change my mind to end up in windows.

My Soundcard: Creative Soundblast Live!

I installed FC3 and everything went good, it even showed that it detected my sound card and everything. But somehow there is no sound. because there is no mixer installed. I tryed using yum install aumix and after it finished and whatever still the mixer isnt installed...Can someone please please help...Thanks

Hi.

Have you tried alsamixer?

Dave

Please tell me where to download it and how to install it...this is where i struggle...help me out folks, come on please...

Thanks

Not sure what "the mixer" is, but check to see if you are using ALSA, and more so, to see if the modules for your sound card are being loaded:
/sbin/lsmod
From the command line, as root, will show what modules are loaded, then post em up. Also, post up your /etc/modules.conf so we can see what's going on in there.

Where to get alsamixer, well I suppose there is a Fedora way to do it, I've seem posts on using yum to install packages on Fedora, but not sure if that's universal. The universal way is of course using the source, but that's not always easy. I believe alsamixer is in the alsa-utils package, and you can get that from:
http://alsa-project.org

Cool

Heres some information that some of you have requested...Please Help

From /sbin/lsmod

Module Size Used by
vfat 16961 0
fat 44897 1 vfat
nls_utf8 5953 2
parport_pc 27777 1
lp 14893 0
parport 40969 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 21700 0
sunrpc 136997 1
ipt_REJECT 10433 1
ipt_state 5825 1
ip_conntrack 45701 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 6721 1
ip_tables 20929 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
dm_mod 56773 0
button 10449 0
battery 12485 0
ac 8773 0
md5 8001 1
ipv6 235105 10
uhci_hcd 32729 0
ehci_hcd 31941 0
hw_random 9301 0
emu10k1_gp 7617 0
gameport 8513 1 emu10k1_gp
snd_emu10k1 83529 0
snd_rawmidi 27109 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm_oss 50809 0
snd_mixer_oss 20929 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 89669 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 27077 1 snd_pcm
snd_seq_device 11849 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 65169 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_page_alloc 13641 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 8641 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 13125 1 snd_emu10k1
snd 54821 9 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,sn d_hwdep
soundcore 12961 1 snd
e100 35653 0
mii 8641 1 e100
floppy 57297 0
ext3 117961 1
jbd 59353 1 ext3
ata_piix 12357 0
libata 43077 1 ata_piix
sd_mod 20289 0
scsi_mod 112136 2 libata,sd_mod

And i just seem not to have any files modules.conf under /etc/ I dont know why???

Thanks again for helping,

Eagle101

Just curious which kernel you are running?
uname -r
will tell you

Open up a terminal and type:
alsamixergui

And hit enter. If it returns 'command not found' then try:
alsamixer

again, if you get 'command not found' then:
whereis alsamixer
if nothing, then:
locate alsamixer
And still if nothing, then you'll need to get the package alsa-utils installed, this would be something to ask your fellow Fedora folks about ;)

Cool

Ok I am running on kernel 2.6.9-1

and when i type whereis alsamixer, it returns:

alsamixer: /usr/bin/alsamixer /usr/share/man/man1/alsamixer.1.gz

also when i type yum search alsamixer, it shows that the alsamixer utils are already installed.

Please Help,

Thanks

-Eagle101

So run it... :)

Open up a terminal and type:
/usr/bin/alsamixer

Cool

Yea i did run it, but it gives me an error in the terminal saying:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

Please Help,

Thanks Alot

-Eagle101

Try amixer then;
# amixer set Master 100 unmute
# amixer set PCM 100 unmute
(Only if the above isn't sufficient:)
# amixer set Center 100 unmute
# amixer set Surround 100 unmute

I tryed that and it says:

amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device

Help

Have you run the alsaconf program as root? Also make sure that you are a member of the 'audio' group.

Hello Everyone,

I dont know how to run alsaconf program as root, and i dont know how to check if i am a member of the 'audio' group. Please Help

-Eagle101

Hi Eagle 101,

I happened to have the same kind of problem.
Try to run alsaconf as root means :
You have to open a Konsole, the "black" window in which you can type commands
Type "su" after the prompt
type your password
than type "alsaconf"
click on yes if it asks you to check your soundcard
then, as it says : Enjoy !

Did it 3 or 4 times in Mandrake 10.0. Worked perfectly well
Hope that can help you
Cheers !