No Sound in Fedora 8

3rdKey · 01-17-2008, 07:45 PM

Hey everyone,

So I just upgraded to Fedora 8 and I must say, I'm in love; this is definitely the best version of Fedora that has come out to date. With that being said, the one issue that I am unable to resolve is to get the sound to work. I currently am dual booting XP and Fedora 8, and the sound seems to be fine in XP. However, in Fedora 8, it seems the silence is deafening

Here are the results from "lspci":

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[root@localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Security Device
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)] (rev a1)
04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)
05:04.0 Communication controller: Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev 08)
05:05.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
05:05.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
05:05.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
05:06.0 Network controller: AIRONET Wireless Communications PC4800 (rev 01)

I have gone into the volume control GUI and unmuted everything and raised the volume to 100%. I have also accessed the alsa-mixer through the terminal and made sure that everything was at 100%. I have yum upgraded the alsa drivers and everything should be currently up to date, yet I am still dumbfounded as to what the problem could be.

Any suggestions?

Much thanks,
3rdKey

harsha101087 · 01-17-2008, 11:55 PM

Post the result of :-
1. cat /etc/modprobe.conf
2. cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec

jay73 · 01-18-2008, 01:13 AM

Are you using pulseaudio?

3rdKey · 01-18-2008, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by jay73

Are you using pulseaudio?

Everything I've seen says I'm using Alsa. I'll double check that when I get home though.

harsha, Ill post those results tonight when I get home.

3rdKey · 01-18-2008, 07:36 PM

1. cat /etc/modprobe.conf

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[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 airo
alias eth1 via-rhine
alias scsi_hostadapter libata
alias scsi_hostadapter1 pata_via
alias scsi_hostadapter2 sata_via
options snd cards_limit=8
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel index=0
alias snd-card-7 snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=7

2. cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec

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[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
Codec: VIA VIA VT1708

PTrenholme · 01-18-2008, 09:58 PM

Try running the system-config-soundcard command to be sure that the correct driver has been loaded.

3rdKey · 01-19-2008, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by PTrenholme

Try running the system-config-soundcard command to be sure that the correct driver has been loaded.

when i click "reload audio drivers" i get an error message that states:

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Unable to remove kernel modules. You need to reboot your box for the changes to take effect.

Upon reboot, the same error message appears

PTrenholme · 01-19-2008, 09:22 AM

Yes, that seems to be a common message. I've found that it can usually just be ignored.

Did you get any sound from the sound test in the first tab?

Is the correct card the default one in the second tab?

After asking for the "reload," did you retry the sound test? (As I said, the "reboot" message is best ignored.)

3rdKey · 01-19-2008, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PTrenholme

Did you get any sound from the sound test in the first tab?

Is the correct card the default one in the second tab?

After asking for the "reload," did you retry the sound test? (As I said, the "reboot" message is best ignored.)

The sound test has never worked for me, even when I was running FC5, although in FC5 the sound did worked

I think that I have the right default card set; does being in "Analog" or "Digital" make a difference for the same card?

jay73 · 01-19-2008, 01:53 PM

The reason I asked about pulseaudio is that, as far as I know, Fedora 8 comes with pulseaudio as a default. And it does not always work out of the box. It certainly did not for me. Have you checked System > Prefs > Hardware > Sound?

3rdKey · 01-19-2008, 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jay73

The reason I asked about pulseaudio is that, as far as I know, Fedora 8 comes with pulseaudio as a default. And it does not always work out of the box. It certainly did not for me. Have you checked System > Prefs > Hardware > Sound?

Hm, I honestly have NO idea what just happened, but now the audio has suddenly decided to work once I visited Systm > Prefs > hardware > Sound and clicked "Test" on each one...odd, but at least working. Haha!

Much thanks for everyone's help. I was going a little insane without my music

Fergatron · 04-10-2008, 07:56 AM

Can anyone help with my sound issue. I have Fedora 8 and my sound preferences is set to auto detect. So far everything that's happened in this thread has happened to me except when I click on Test it gives me:

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audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Internal GStreamer error: state change failed. Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug....duct=GStreamer.

I usually get around this be rebooting the computer, but I'm not happy with rebooting linux... come on... this is LINUX! It works from time to time, but then craps out on me. I can play Banshee and WoW, but then it'll randomly crap out on me. I'm a total noob when it comes to configuring linux so any help would be fine. Thanks.

John VV · 04-15-2008, 03:58 PM

hi Fergatron have you done a search on http://www.fedoraforum.org/
i and others have posted a large number replays on this subject