Sound not working on fresh boot

Jhavna · 11-07-2005, 04:30 AM

I'm running Fedora 4 and have the following problem:

When I boot the system I haven't got any sound (and the mixer settings are muted) I can turn up the mixer settings but not sound yet either. Running Alsaconf to detect my soundcard (an onboard intel sound processor) then causes the sounds to work.
But on the next reboot the same thing again. I run alsactl store and the same thing still happens.

This has only started happening since I updated the alsa software via YUM, and I am at a loss as to why the settings aren't kept. Alsaconf does write lines to modules.conf, but it seems to make little difference.

I'm not at my machine so posts of file contents etc will have to wait until tonite

TIA

fouldsy · 11-08-2005, 01:00 PM

Have you got any further? If not, what chipset is the on-board sound and which module is alsaconf loading for you? After a reboot, is the module listed as being loaded when running lsmod, and if not, does /etc/modules (or wherever under FC4) show the module being defined?

Jhavna · 11-09-2005, 02:58 AM

Thank you for the reply. No progress yet.. I will post the requested details later tonite.

As far as I can tell, there is an entry in modules.conf which (as comments indicate) have been created by alsaconf.

As I said, more info later

Jhavna · 11-09-2005, 01:21 PM

ok, here's the info:

the file etc/modprobe.conf contains:

Code:

alias eth0 8139too
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
#alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --#ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias char-major-195* nvidia
options nvidia NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles=0

# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.9a ---
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

Here I did comment out the lines about the snd modules not inside the alsaconf lines, no difference either...

The alsaconf sound card detected is Intel8x0 - Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller

lsmod gives

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
nvidia               3717736  20 
parport_pc             31749  1 
lp                     16713  0 
parport                39561  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                23493  2 
sunrpc                145541  1 
ipt_REJECT             10049  1 
ipt_state               5953  2 
ip_conntrack           46889  1 ipt_state
iptable_filter          7105  1 
ip_tables              25409  3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
dm_mod                 60892  0 
video                  20165  0 
button                 10705  0 
battery                13509  0 
ac                      8901  0 
ipv6                  267713  10 
usb_storage            75913  0 
joydev                 13569  0 
wacom                  17601  0 
ohci1394               39817  0 
ieee1394              301465  1 ohci1394
uhci_hcd               37201  0 
ehci_hcd               38349  0 
shpchp                 97477  0 
hw_random               9685  0 
i2c_i801               13005  0 
i2c_core               25409  1 i2c_i801
snd_intel8x0           36225  1 
snd_ac97_codec         82237  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_seq_dummy           7749  0 
snd_seq_oss            36289  0 
snd_seq_midi_event     11073  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                55121  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         13133  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            54769  0 
snd_mixer_oss          22209  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                91717  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              29253  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    58917  9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              13472  2 snd
snd_page_alloc         14793  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
8139too                31425  0 
mii                     9537  1 8139too
floppy                 62997  0 
ext3                  134473  1 
jbd                    62169  1 ext3
ata_piix               13509  0 
libata                 49865  1 ata_piix
sd_mod                 23361  0 
scsi_mod              137257  3 usb_storage,libata,sd_mod

Hope this helps