Fedora core 2 no sound
 

To start with, I am a completely new linux user and have absolutely no clue what I'm doing (couldn't find the console until today). Anyways, I just installed Fedora Core 2, and am getting absolutely no sound. When I log on, sometimes I get a message telling me I have no sound card. If i go under the sound test thingamajig, it says I have an Nvidia card, and the test sound doesn't play. According to my computer's website, my sound card is "Integrated Soundmax III Digital Audio". My computer is a compaq presario 6020us with the only changes being an added Geforce ti4200 video card, additional 256 ram, and a new power supply. Any help in getting the sound to work would be much appreciated. Thanks.
P.S. Please, treat me like a 2nd grader and go step-bystep as otherwise I'll get completely lost. I have no clue what i'm doing.

Same thing here...
 

I upgraded from FC1. My sound was working fine (Intel 845 chipset with AC'97 audio) and now it's not working since I upgraded to FC2. My sound hardware is recognized by the O.S. but it's not functioning. Any ideas???

Iggylibs: first lets see how your sound hardware is identified. That will make it easier to figure out what ALSA driver you need.

Run /sbin/lspci. (To do this, click the Red Hat->System Tools->Terminal. At the prompt just type /sbin/lspci and hit enter.)
Post the output here. Then we can take a look at the alsa documentation to see what driver matches your hardware.

It would also be helpful if you could post the contents of /etc/modprobe.conf. (In the terminal, type: cat /etc/modprobe.conf ).

I went to the ALSA documentation page, but found it less than helpful.

Here's my /sbin/lspci:


00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 11


My cat /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias eth0 3c59x
alias char-major-195* nvidia

For your card the ALSA docs say you should be using the snd-intel8x0 driver. If you run system-config-soundcard does it detect your card and play the test sound ok? If not you can try adding this to modprobe.conf:

Dumb mistake
 

Just resolved my problem... After using the command line xface for a few of the alsa utils I realized that my speaker tray icon in the lower right corner had a graphical front-end for the alsa utils.

Right-click on the speaker icon and select "open volume control." The dialog box is tabbed for the prior OSS and current ALSA options. I suspect the OSS controls are merely presenting a front-end to ALSA since I'm running FC2 (kernel 2.6)? Anyhow, ALSA apparently defaults to muted volume controls (why?) so I simply unchecked the mute box and raised the sliders. Everything works now.

A dumb-mistake on my part, but I wonder how many other "newbies" have the same problem? The tray icon did not indicate my volume was muted and I could only determine this by opening the complete ALSA Mixer GUI.

DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I added the info at the end of the modprobe.conf and tried it again, and got nothing. Then I re-read the thread and saw that geekdaddy found the sound muted on the taskbar. I checked again and saw that mine was too. Then I remembered that I'd read somewhere that ALSA defaults to 0 volume. GEEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hey, Thanks for the help. I guess I should have checked the ALSA site more carefully.

No result from jspaar's request
 

I tried typing both tings in the terminal that jspaar said. both resulted in telling me no such file or directory exists. What to do?

HAve the same issue
 

I upgraded to the COre 2 and have no sound. I checked the volume control. Moved all the sliders up and i could only hear the screeching mic. mUTED THE Mic and that didnt help.
/sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS645 Host & Memory & AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI- to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961 [MuTI OL Media IO]
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0 016
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE ] (rev d0)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM87 38 (rev 10)
00:08.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 02)
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10 k1 (rev 07)
00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIV A TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 11)
[root@localhost root]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS645 Host & Memory & AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961 [MuTIOL Media IO]
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
00:08.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 02)
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 11)
I have a creative labs sound blaster that worked fine on Core1.

cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 tulip
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
alias snd-card-1 snd-cmipci
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
alias usb-controller ohci-hcd

Could you help out please. The wierd thing is when I do the "SOundcard detection" program, I hear the sounds.

Kind of strange.
Thanks

@vramamur: Looks like it's close to working. I don't have two sound cards like you, but I'll throw some suggestions out there, and maybe somebody else will have some better ideas. You've probably looked into this stuff already, but what the heck...

(Actually one of my machines does have two sound cards, but I disabled the integrated audio in the BIOS. On that machine I don't have modprobe entries for the integrated sound, just the Sound Blaster.)

When you open the volume controls, there are probably three tabs there, right? One for the CMedia, one for the Sound Blaster, and one (or two?) for OSS. Did you mess around with the controls on each tab? If your speakers are plugged into the SB Live you can probably ignore/turn down the controls for the CMedia.

You say you get sound during system-config-soundcard. What about if you run something like: Any sound?

If it's only gnome event sounds that aren't working, check to see if you have libgnome-2.6.0-3 installed by: rpm -q libgnome
If you're using gnome, do you have Hat->Preferences->Sound->Enable Sound Server Startup checked?

Just a few ideas.

I too am fighting this one
 

Like vramamur I am getting sound ONCE I run the >System Settings>Souncard Detection ... once I run that system sounds normalize but things like KsCD still won't play... What gives?

I have performed an upgrade from Fedora Core 1 to Core 2.


**ERROR MESSAGE RECEIVED WHEN FIRST STARTING**
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

/sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go] (rev a3)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4451 IEEE-1394 Controller

cat /etc/modprobe.conf
# Note: for use under 2.4, changes must also be made to modules.conf!
alias eth0 3c59x
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install sound-slot-0 && { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
remove sound-slot-0 { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove sound-slot-0



:confused: No clue as to what I should do :confused:

@sp|k3: my upgrade from FC1 to FC2 was a little screwed up too.

One thing I can tell for sure is that your modprobe.conf will not properly restore the mixer settings. Change the last two lines to:
On my upgraded box the CD volume was off by default (or muted, I forget). If you're using gnome, run gnome-volume control and adjust and unmute the CD volume in all tabs. I don't know much about KDE, but you should be able to run alsamixer in a terminal and accomplish the same thing.

I don't think /dev/dsp should be used by alsa - pretty sure it's only for the old OSS. Are you using artsd under KDE maybe?

AC97 still no sound
 

I checked what was written earlier in this thread, but I still have no sound.
FC2 with AC97

1. soundcard is recognized but no sound during testing
2. max volume in all contollers
3. sndconfig compalins:
| You don't seem to be running a kernel with modular sound │
│ enabled. (soundcore.o was not found in the module search path). │
│ To use sndconfig, you must be running a kernel with modular │
│ sound, such as the kernel shipped with Red Hat Linux or a 2.2 │
│ or greater kernel.
so I can not use it
4. edited /etc/modprobe.conf

wherever was 'snd-intel8x0', I changed to 'i810_audio'

then rebooted, but still using the wronf module (snd-intel8x0)

The original /etc/modprobe.conf

alias eth0 3c59x
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias snd-card-2 audio
remove audio { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove audio
alias snd-card-3 audio
alias snd-card-4 audio
alias snd-card-5 audio
alias snd-card-6 audio
install audio /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install audio && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias char-major-81 bttv
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd


Any ideas how to make it work?

aumix
 

RedFed,

Start a terminal.

Type aumix and, using your arrow keys, make sure that the PCM and PCM2 options are not set all the way to the left. Use your right arrow key to move the small "O" over to the right. When done you can exit with Ctrl + C or just close the terminal.

I hope this helps. :)


Btw: snd-intel8x0 is correct.

JSPAARs suggestion
 

HI JSPAAR,
I tried disabling the integrated audio which resulted in just 2 tabs in the VOlume control. made sure I had everything up in volume and had the mic Muted since I didnt want to hear the screeeching noice. Tried playing the generic.wav and I HEARD the sound. But the CD music nor the internet radio stations seem to come out of th speakers :(

Let me know if I need to tr y anything else.

Thanks all for your help

Mooshi

Thanks, but I already tried that. (aumix). It is on max 100

The
aplay /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/generic.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
plays a good, loud beep.

I do not know if my /etc/modprobe.conf, I posted earlier, indicate something wrong.

Still no clue.

My /sbin/lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
01:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
01:09.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller [Tornado] (rev 40)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200]

@vramamur:
Well I'm stumped. You're saying aplay makes sound fine, but your apps don't.
I don't know what would cause this.
One thing you might try is run xmms if you have it installed, and try each of the different sound output options to see if any of them work. They are in options->preferences->audio I/O plug-ins->Output plug-ins. If aplay works, I would think that the alsa output plugin should work in xmms, but ??

[edit: Oh - and while you're debugging sound, make sure you only have one sound application open at a time. Start the apps from a command line so that you can see any errors that they might print out.]

Anybody else have ideas?

As a suggestion wonder if OP was using KDE as desktop WM as mentioned using KsCD, in FC1 there were some issues with aRTS trying to appropriate sound drivers under KDE 3.2 (I think). In this problem then KDE would try to play system sounds and restart aRTS server, which conflicted with ALSA config.

My eventual solution was to kill aRTS, chmod 000 on it and then restart X.
HTH

Sounds like a good call. Other people on fedora-list said the same thing - they had to turn off artsd to get sound working in KDE. The chmod 000 thing will work, but the "official" KDE way that someone posted was:
The "Control Center" applet | Sound and Multimedia | Sound System | General Tab | uncheck "enable sound system"

Hi everybody, I'm new to this forum but not so new to linux.

I've recently upgraded my FC1 to FC2.

I've a similar problem to other people here, that is the sound is defaulted to "off" when the system starts. But if I give "alsactl restore", everything works fine.

So the problem is: how to make the system do "alsactl restore" automatically at system boot? With Gentoo I had a /etc/init.d/alsa script, but as far as I've understood in Fedora Core 2 you've to act on modprobe.conf. So, here's mine (with some lines taken off):

$ cat /etc/modprobe.conf
# Note: for use under 2.4, changes must also be made to modules.conf!
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
install snd-card-0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-card-0 && { /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
remove snd-card-0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove snd-card-0

Why this doesn't work? Why do I still have to do "alsactl restore" manually?

Thank for your answers.

Hurray
 

The checking "OFF" the sound on startup on KDE DID THE trick. I get my sounds and the music from CD working. I am using a Sound Blaster 5.1 and am getting sounds only from the front. left and right speakers. NOthing from my rear and rear center speakers. Any suggestions?

THanks
Vignesh

@Stecco:
On one box I think I fixed this problem by using the actual module name instead of the alias in the 2 install/remove lines. LIke this:
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove

@vramamur:
Great you got it working, and thanks for posting back so others will know how to fix KDE sound.
For the rear speakers check out this page: emu10k1 docs -- see section 2.
If you run alsamixer in a terminal, don't forget to scroll over with the right-arrow key to the sliders that don't fit on the first page. ;)

Thank you, jspaar, it seems like it worked. I had found a similar solution googling, but some little differences made it not to work, I suppose.

i had a similar problem and found that it was the --first-time that was the culprit, not the soundcard alias. when i took that out everything worked fine.

hi, every body,
I have the same problem as you, but I could'nt fix it.
The volume is correctly set
the file /etc/modprobe.conf contains the correct parameters


alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd

when I ran the config sound , the card is recognize. but no sound.
strange

any idea is welcome
thanks a lot
bela

Wierdness, I have recently installed FC2 first on a Toshiba M10-S405 laptop, er.. notebook, and an ECS K7S5A based desktop. The sound works on the desktop. I discovered after seeing some of these posts that the sound wasn't working on my laptop. It seemed to me that I remembered the sound test working at the install. On a site about enabling all the missing multimedia for FC I saw a reference to /dev/dsp and its ownership. Both computers have /dev/dsp permissions as file owner: my username and file group: root. On the laptop I reset the file group to my username and sound worked. Now that I've rebooted ,just to see, the sound still works but /dev/dsp file group is again set to root.
I have no idea what is going on here, I just know that my previously not working sound works as expected, at least as tested with the game Stones. Maybe some of you are experiencing the same wierdness that my laptop did.

I did all of this using GUI tools. Also ,as an aside, in order to browse the file system the old way, not spatially or whatever you properly call Fedora's new default way, I just go to the redhat then browse file system. Had to say that because of all of the trashing that FC2 has been getting on the web for changing how file systems are browsed. I have had mixed results with the new way and find myself using the old method most.

Similar issue...
 

Greetings:

I have read these posts and tried several solutions to no avail. I also have no sound. During the initial setup of the OS the sound card is detected correctly and I hear the test sound play. Once I login there is no sound whatsoever. Whenever I try to play a sound or listen to a CD the program used behaves normally except that no sound is heard. I loaded XP on the same system and am able to hear sound normally so the hardware is functioning. Here is the info I have gathered so far:

"[root@localhost etc]# cat modprobe.conf
alias eth0 3c59x
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd"

I have a Creative Labs Audigy Gamer so this appears to be correct.

When trying to play a wav file:

"[root@localhost etc]# aplay /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/generic.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono"

The program terminates without error but no sound is heard.

"[root@localhost etc]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System Controller (rev 13)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a)
00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 34)
00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03)
00:0f.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 03)
00:0f.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3 Ti 200] (rev a3)"

LSPCI also seems to indicate that the card was detected properly.

Now here is the kicker, if I run the info center under the system tool menu I get the following information about my sound:

"Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.4rc2 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.5-1.358 #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004 i686
Config options: 0

Installed Drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
Sound Blaster Audigy (rev.3) at 0xe400, irq 5

Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices:
0: Audigy MPU-401 (UART)

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG"


I will not lie and pretend that I understand the Fedora sound system at all. Unlike other configuration files the modprobe.conf has no internal notes on settings and does not seem to have a terribly clear syntax. If anyone could point out where I have gone wrong I would appreciate it.

Thanks!

The Halfling

Something more strange
 

I got the sound working like you read in the earlier post but only my 2 front speakers. SO based on the advice of jspaar, I read up the documentation on the emu10k web site and decided to get the RPM for gnome-alsamixer front end. On that front end I tried to play with the sliders and found something more strange.

The "Phone" slider seems to be controlling the volume instead of the "Master". Even if I mute the MAster, the sound still keeps coming out of the speakers until the "Phone" is muted. So essentially it looks like the "Phone" slider seems to be the MAsTER.

Does anybody else see a behavior like this?

THANKS

Also........
 

It looks like the sound is being controlled by the " Audio Mixer oss" as opposed to "Alsa Mixer" . How do I force the system to control sound by the Alsa MIxer rather than Audio Mixer?

Thanks

Hey guys,
My recent upgrade from FC1 to FC2 sucked it hard. My mouse refused to work but what bothers me most is the sound problem also. FC1 didnt register my soundcard present (ESS ES1868 PnP Audiodrive), but sound still ran through applications and on desktop. my /sbin/lspci reads:
/sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev 44)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 23)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 11)
00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 30)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 86C326 5598/6326 (rev 92)

Now, I cant see a multimedia controller there, which I believe poses a problem. Also, on FC1 when the login screen loaded, the computer made a "beep" sound. It isnt present now, but has it been removed? I cant tell.
Can anybody help?

Disable the internal sound card
 

my setup was:
AC '97 onboard sound card.
SoundBlaster Live!

Both was correctly installed at first, but only the ac-card worked. I plugged my speakers into the ac-spearker-out, and got sound, but i also got the sound from the sb live test, when running the autodetect sound card program.
Nothing seemed to work, nothing was muted, but with AC'97 i was only able to get one program playing a sound at a time, which made programs hang while waiting for the soundcard to be avalible. Xmms worked if I told it to output to /dev/dsp1, but i wanted it to be working 100%.

I then tried to disable the onboard AC'97 soundcard in the BIOS, and fedora asked me at startup if i wanted to remove the configuration for the card. Told yes, and now everything works nicely. The only problem is that ALSA seems to be very difficult to configure since I'm using surround-speakers, and there is no vol. control for both front and rear speakers :(
I can now get more programs playing sounds at the same time.

but now it works! :)

did you ever get this fixed?

im also having a sound problem, the sound worked when it first ran that test sound druing installation but now i get no sound at all, i have a cm8738 card, in xmms if i adjust the alas mixer settings to use (hw 0,2) i get real crackly sound for my mp3s and ogg's. I have no idea what is wrong, it works fine in red hat 8 (what im using now)

yet another one with sound issues
 

I'm trying to figure out my own sound problems over here, all help will be appreciated...

I just installed FC2 today, and my intel Crop 82801db doesn't wanna work for me. So, I figured I'd try an old Soundblaster live I had kicking around. Nothing their either. I don't hear the test sound, nor any other sounds (like from XMMS or games n stuff). Here's my output from /sbin/lspci:

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)

I am quite boggled as to why this is happening, as everything seems to be set up fine, and it worked this morning under RH9. And for those who are gluttons for more info, here's my /etc/modprobe.conf:

# Note: for use under 2.4, changes must also be made to modules.conf!
alias eth0 e100
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install sound-slot-0 && { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
remove sound-slot-0 { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove sound-slot-0
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1

It really doesn't matter to me which soundcard gets working, as long as one of them starts working (and soon)! I checked all the sliders I could find (volume control on panel, opening the volume control through the volume control on the panel, and the volume on my speakers. Nothing seems to be muted as far as I can see. Any and all help is much appreciated, thank you.

open a terminal and open alsamixer and make sure nothing is muted and that all the volume is turned up. I never got mine working i ended up putting in a sound baster live 16bit card. What kind of card do you have?

First I want to greet everyone on this forum.

I'm not totally new to Linux, but I'm stil a novice user.

Today I installed Fedora Core 2. Amazing, it's a very nice OS, but my soundcard didn't work

I've got a SiS, dunno the type....

Thanks to some other forum-users I found out that K-Mix could fix it, strange because I'm using Gnome.

But I started K-Mix and when I turned off IEC958 Capture Monitor in the advanced section my sound was back in bussiness :cool:

So I hope others with the problem can fix it on the same way as I did.

Greetings :newbie:

BTW: Excuse me for my bad English :study:

I am also having trouble with a Sound Blaster Live! card... No sound at all. Not from the test, nothing. It detects it just fine but I cant hear any sound. I dunno any of the technical settings tho. I did go into the volume control and turn up the volume. In the volume control thing I have 2 tabs. The first one is some Cirrus Logic thing. The second one is my SB Live! card. :scratch:

Hello I'm new to the group and I would appreciate some help getting my soundcard to work. The O/S I'm running is Fedora Core 2 using Gnome.

Model [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X
Module snd-emu10k1

Here's my /sbin/lspci
02:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X
02:01.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] Input device controller

cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 e100
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd

I tried sliding the volume control from - to + but it drops back down to the -
When I shut down my system the sound portion is the only service that doesn't report as working.
From what I can tell the O/S is definitely detecting the sound card but I'm stumped on what else is required to make this work. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards
Paul D

I installed FC2 on my computer, and then my girlfriend's computer. Mine was a fresh install, hers was an upgrade (if you want to call it that) from FC1.
I finally got the sound working on my system using the onboard sound, which kinda sucks because i really miss using my SBLive.

However, my girlfriend's computer ONLY has onboard. At first, I thought there was no sound at all, but then I realized that it's just incredibly low Now, I've done all the usual "did you check" things... yes the cable's in the right port, aumix is all cranked up, the KDE audio control panel is all cranked up, but when i try to play any audio whatsoever (cd's, mp3's, games) it's almost completely inaudible.

here's the stuff...

modprobe.conf
Any clues whatsoever? I'm glad I've been growing my hair long, because now I have something to pull out of my head in frustration!
And, I'm kinda on a time schedule, since she needs to get sound working in time for Quakecon :D

I noticed that:

alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install sound-slot-0 && { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
remove sound-slot-0 { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove sound-slot-0

in one line the card is called snd-card-0 and in another line it is called sound-slot-0



think that has anything to do with it?

This FC2 sound problems is so weird! Here's my story.

FC2 was installed on a system with a Creative Labs Audio PCI 64D sound card and everything configured and worked fine. Isn’t FC2 wonderful :) , or so I thought. I moved that card to a different system and installed a 16-bit ISA Creative Labs Sound Blaster card (model CT4170), which is about as standard a sound card as you can get. After about 6 wasted hours, I got it to work by starting a KDE session and here’s the story.

From the beginning, booted into FC2 and got no sound with the 16-bit SB card. Read everything I could find in this forum about the FC2 Sound Problems. Consulted alsa-project.org and found the driver snd-sb16. Ran “modprobe snd-sb16" successfully, but got no sound. Modified modprobe.conf to include “alias snd-card-0 snd-sb16" and rebooted, but got no sound. Played with the GNOME mixer and the alsamixer, but got no sound.

Booted into RHL9 and got sound, but under the alsa snd-sb driver. Booted back into FC2 and tried “modprobe snd-sb” unsuccessfully (no big surprise there). Left for the day, thinking “What a waste!”. :mad:

With a fresh mind, started a KDE session, adjusted the mixer and GOT SOUND!!! :D Logged off and logged in with a GNOME session and GOT SOUND!!! Switched back and forth between GNOME and KDE just to confirm that the sound still worked, and yes it did!!!

In a final test, rebooted the system and logged into a GNOME session and got NO SOUND. Logged into a KDE session and GOT SOUND!!! And it still worked in a GNOME session!!!

Is the moral to this story “Use KDE sessions”? Sound in linux is so frustrating.

That's very interesting. I don't have KDE installed but I will install it later tonight and we'll see how it goes.

my fc2 sound problem
 

i just installed a fresh install of FC2 on my main machine, with onboard AC97 sound, sound works fine at first, but when another app tries to play a sound, it errors out. (example: say i'm playing mp3's with xmms and talking on gaim, when someone messages me on gaim the Ding causes a "check that your soundcard isn't in use" error) now this is strange to me, because i've mainly used windows on my main machine, and with windows many apps can play sound, sometimes it gets annoying, but like with music and chatting its almost neccisary. anywho, any advice would be appreciated

i found the easiest way to solve the problem

i reinstalled FC1 ;) yeah, i know, i'm lazy :D

Mooshi, your solution helped me verry much. I had the same problem, and the same soundcard as gnu noob: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 11). Thank you for the support guys!

Mooshi,

I think I'm in love. Your directions just ended several days of frustration. It's no fun running an illicit OS (my supervisor banned Linux cuz the techies won't support it) if I can't listen to music.

Sadly, I haven't figured out how to make it stay. Every time I either log back on or restart the machine I have to do it all over again. Aumix doesnt seem to save its settings even when I tell it to, and it won't load them correctly either from /home/ or /etc...

Glad I could help though.

Pcm2, you are sure?

Re: Something more strange
 

I've got onboard sound: (lspci)

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)

I just installed Fedora Core 2. Sound was NOT detected during install, but I haven't really done anything other than just changing this volume setting. I had changed volume levels from aumix and the GUI utility (right-click speaker icon, "Open Volume Control") to no avail earlier. Still could not hear the Test Sound (clicking "Yes" anyways as someone suggested did not help). Also, trying "alsactl restore" didn't seem to do anything at all. Oddly, "aplay /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav" was playing a sound. Convinced there must be something simple about not being able to hear anything else, I kept reading the forum:

What the heck!? This helped me out. Indeed, just turning up the "Phone" slider bar gave me sound! Weird.

fc2 no sound
 

I just installed fc2 all went well except my sound card. It detected my card but when I tried the test sound nothing played. here is a excerpt from my modprobe.conf.

alias eth0 tg3
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd




Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Read the other posts in this fourum. They may help.