Hi

I have Fedora 2.6.9 installed on my system but there is no sound.

The sound card (intergrated is properly installed and i have modprobe it to check if the module loaded). But still when I try to play a music file it gives me sound card being used by some other aplication is error, What other application that might be. Also, the sound volume bar does not moves to anything from mute, even if i drag it, it slips back to the same mute level.

what is the problem here, i can not figure out.

Note- prior to this i had SB live 5.1 and I thought it might be the problem, i was recieving same error with it as well. but when i removed it and confirmed the removal through kudzu. still same error

Is my fedora installation has some problem..............

Kamal

try running and follow the instructions. That usually works to configure alsa correctly. Then turn up all of your volumes with a mixer. I use

Not all sound cards have hardware mixing, so you need to make sure all programs that are using the sound card have been stopped or closed. Most distributions uses artsd, esound, or polyaudio to mix multiple sound streams to one, but not all programs support these sound daemons. I recommend closing these sound daemons because they will give more problems in the future. ALSA's dmix library is better and all programs have support for ALSA.

I recommend using alsamixer instead of any desktop/window manager mixer program. By using alsamixer, you can provide the -V all option to access to all mixer options instead what is shown as the default listing.

The utility alsaconf is only helpful if you do not know what module to use for your sound card. It does not help to set ALSA.

That actually seems to be a good idea.

Now questions is how to do I find all the programs that are running in my Fedora and how to find which one of them is using my sound card.

** I say this because my sound card give me a message that the sound driver is not available or being used by any other application

Lets see what is does.

Thanks.