No sound with Fedora Core 5

Tommo · 06-27-2006, 05:04 PM

Hi.

After installing Fedora Core 5 (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp), I find out I have no sound. Running alsamixer reveals my soundcard to be HDA-Intel. For those of you who think I need to unmute it, the channels are unmuted. Running lsmod gives the following output:

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Module                  Size  Used by
i915                   22465  1 
drm                    68181  2 i915
ipv6                  246433  14 
autofs4                22981  1 
hidp                   24001  2 
rfcomm                 42709  0 
l2cap                  31681  10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth              52901  5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc                140925  1 
ip_conntrack_netbios_ns     6977  0 
ipt_REJECT              9536  1 
xt_state                6209  2 
ip_conntrack           54040  2 ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,xt_state
nfnetlink              10457  1 ip_conntrack
xt_tcpudp               7233  4 
iptable_filter          7105  1 
ip_tables              16389  1 iptable_filter
x_tables               16965  4 ipt_REJECT,xt_state,xt_tcpudp,ip_tables
video                  18885  0 
button                 10577  0 
battery                13253  0 
ac                      8901  0 
lp                     16265  0 
parport_pc             29413  0 
parport                38281  2 lp,parport_pc
nvram                  12617  0 
ehci_hcd               33229  0 
uhci_hcd               33233  0 
sg                     36317  0 
e100                   37573  0 
mii                     9281  1 e100
snd_hda_intel          21329  0 
snd_hda_codec         116033  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy           7749  0 
snd_seq_oss            33345  0 
snd_seq_midi_event     11073  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                52401  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         12877  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            49105  0 
snd_mixer_oss          20417  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                81093  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
i2c_i801               12365  0 
i2c_core               24897  1 i2c_i801
ahci                   16837  0 
snd_timer              26693  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    55109  9 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              13345  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         14537  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
dm_snapshot            20205  0 
dm_zero                 6209  0 
dm_mirror              24081  0 
dm_mod                 54745  6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ext3                  121929  1 
jbd                    57173  1 ext3
ata_piix               14149  0 
libata                 58321  2 ahci,ata_piix
sd_mod                 20545  0 
scsi_mod              129641  4 sg,ahci,libata,sd_mod

Hence, it seems as though the module is loaded. Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

Thanks

Peacedog · 06-27-2006, 06:05 PM

There may be some help here.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedor.../msg03681.html

http://people.redhat.com/stransky/alsa/

From skimming those it appears you'll need to download and install the latest alsa packages.
Good luck.

Tommo · 06-28-2006, 12:59 PM

Sorry I'm getting nowhere: I downloaded alsa-driver-1.0.11.tar.bz2, tried to install it, but get this message with the ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel --with-sequencer=yes command:

Code:

checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking for current directory... /usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.11
checking cross compile...
checking for directory with kernel source... /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/source
checking for directory with kernel build... /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/build
checking for kernel linux/version.h... no
The file /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/source/include/linux/version.h does not exist.
Please install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution
or use --with-kernel=dir option to specify another directory with kernel
sources (default is /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/source).

Im lost.

I run alsa mixer and it says i have AlsaMixer v1.0.11rc2.

I just simply do not know what to do here.

Tommo · 06-28-2006, 01:10 PM

OK, it now works, don't ask me how. There were two kernels that were supplied with FC5, 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5smp and 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp. Previously I had been booting up in 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp, but just then I decided to see if changing to the other one would work, and it did.

Does anyone have any idea why?

Peacedog · 06-28-2006, 06:40 PM

Most likely a bug in the older kernel has been fixed, you'll have to do some research on the newer version changelog to be certain.
Good luck.