sound card on dell computers

strong.steve · 10-13-2004, 11:45 AM

I'm a CS teacher and I run a lab of computers using fedora 2. when i try to do a sound card detection, the system correctly identifies the card as:

Intel Corp.
model: 82801BA/BAM AC97 Audio
module: snd-intel8x0

but the test sound doesn't play.

Any ideas???

steve

rotnay6000 · 10-13-2004, 02:29 PM

Looks like it is detecting the on-board sound.
Is the on-board sound enabled in the BIOS?
Just out of curiosity - What model of Dell are you using?

the_sLiDe · 10-13-2004, 03:06 PM

Type alsamixer and unmute everything then save ur settings.

strong.steve · 10-13-2004, 04:54 PM

The model is a Optiplex GX240.

The sound card is enabled in the bios, because the sound works when the computers are booted into windoze (they are all dual boot machines)

I'll try the commands suggested by the last poster

thanks!
steve

strong.steve · 10-13-2004, 05:02 PM

OK, so the alsamixer worked like a champ, but how do you save the settings?
steve

bgreen · 10-20-2004, 02:57 PM

I dont know if you found your solution for this but the command:

/usr/sbin/alsactl store

stores the settings for alsamixer.

bunyan · 09-14-2005, 09:59 AM

I turned up all the volume sttings in Alsamixer but I still dont get any sounds. Do I need to reboot or something this shyt is pissing me off arrgghhhhh. I thought I was good at Linux too lol. I have a gx240 runnig FC3, I have the same sound module as the guy that started this thread

bunyan

H-E-L-P!!!!

bgreen · 09-26-2005, 10:08 AM

It has been a while since I have messed with this setup, but I believe with Fedora Core 3 everything just kind of worked. Is everything unmuted? I remember that I had problems once and I had just forgot to unmute everything.

bunyan · 09-26-2005, 10:41 AM

All,
Sorry I didnt post in here. Well I got my sound working by unmuting everything but now only XMMS doesnt play. Sounds play everywhere else but XMMS isnt playing. I installed the XMMS rpm for mp3 support. I wonder if that screwed anything up...

bunyan