FC3
No sound when running Mplayer , video is great
/system settings/sound card detection Test sound , No Sound
I can play music CD's, Sound is great.
Kmix settings are turned up.
There appears to be a big problem with the snd-via82xx module in Linux.
The module is loading at bootup.

My /etc/modprobe.conf file ;

alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
options snd-card-0 index=0
install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx

Anybody got any ideals

Thanks
jim

I had the same problem (MPlayer, FC3 and snd-via82xx).

Look in mplayer.conf (in /etc/mplayer - I think... at work so can't check) and uncomment and change:

ao=oss

If that doesn't work, try ao=alsa etc etc etc

Well , what's weird is that there are no files at all in /etc/mplayer folder.
Something did not install right.
But I can get video in mplayerplugin. and there is a /etc/mplayerplugin.conf file
What are all the files that makes up a mplayer install, I must have not installed
everything.
Jim

/etc/mplayer is not used as standard. only mplayer.conf is normally in /etc/

the drivers you have loaded there are alsa drivers, and afaik mplayer's default is still oss.
if that fails, check what audio options you actaully have:

I have got to be missing some mplayer files that are not installed.
The files that I have installed are;

FC3

mplayer-2.0-0.12.20041025.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm
mplayer-fonts-1.1-2.0.rf.noarch.rpm
mplayer-skins-1.6-1.0.rf.noarch.rpm
mplayerplug-in-2.70-2.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm

Have I forgotten install correctly.
everytime they come out with a new update the name of the files change.

Thaks much
Jim

I forgot to mention I do not have a /etc/mplayer.conf.
I do have a /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf.
But right now I can not get a movie to load and play from firefox, it goes through the buffering
stage and then justs stops and no video.

Thanks
Jim

well one thing at a time. forget the plugin. get mplayer working right. also forget about config files.. just look at the command line stuff i've already been over.

well ,Chris with your help I did get the souud working and part of it was the settings in config
files and a number of other things I don't remember.
Fedora will never b ready for prime time unless they get the sound and cdrom writing issue
staighten out.
Thank you very much.

Jim

fedora isn't intended for prime time, it's a community development project. ;-)

Before rebooting box mplayer worked great, but after rebooting ,no sound in mplayer.
Sound test in /system setting works okay.
Puzzeled !!

jim

run mplayer from the terminal, go to a web site, copy the link, then go to the terminal and type mplayer then paste the link. It will either run or give you reason why it did'nt run.

I think I have "Fingered" this out , After I reboot this is when I would loose the sound.
Kristtijan under another post, "Alsamixer Saving Issues" on this forum, came up with this fix and
I tryed it, and It appears to work.
But I have one question, How would this allow for the other sound severs, or is this just a problem with alsa ?

Jim

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just to update this for future references, I have manages to solve this issue.

The command alsactl restore needs to be issued for the alsamixer settings to go back to their previously stored state. My first attempt to rectify this problem was to place the command in rc.local. This did not work, and managed to find out later that KDE must be loading it's own mixer settings or something.

To get around this problem, I just put a bash script to execute when KDE loads. For anyone else having this issue, place this in you're ~/.kde/Autostart folder.

code:

#!/bin/sh

/sbin/alsactl restore



Then chmod +x <filename> and you should be good to go once KDE is restarted.

-Kristijan