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Hi,
I installed fedora 3 on my Thinkpad x40. However, there is no sound at all, not even beep when the emails come even though I specify "beep when emails come" in ximian. I have tried all I can: Applications/System Settings/Soundcard Detection, turn up all volumn, Preferences/sound.
Here is alsa installed in my labtop:
[phamtranquocviet@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.6-8.FC3
alsa-lib-1.0.6-8.FC3
alsa-utils-1.0.6-3
balsa-2.2.4-1.FC3.1
Please help. I really really apreciate it. I am desperate for the sound because I need to know when emails come to answer to my colleagues.
Thanks.
One more thing: when I execute "alsamixer" the "Headphone" and "line jac" cannot be changed using up arrow, which can change other components such as "master" or "CD", etc.
thanks.
These are your sound modules, since they are loaded, your soundcard was succesfully detected. If you are 100% sure that the volumes are up, then it can be only one more thing, you can't write to the sound device, so you don't have permissions. Do
Code:
ls -l /dev/dsp
ls -l /dev/sound/dsp
You will see these devices have as user probably root and as group probably audio. Make sure that your user is in the audio group, else it will not be possible to write to the dsp. Fedora will have some tool to change the groups of a user.
Hi,
Here is ls -l /dev/dsp output:
[phamtranquocviet@localhost etc]$ ls -l /dev/dsp
crw------- 1 phamtranquocviet root 14, 3 Jun 4 01:21 /dev/dsp
Here is ls -l /dev/sound output: (there is no /dev/sound/dsp though)
[phamtranquocviet@localhost etc]$ ls -l /dev/sound
crw------- 1 root root 116, 33 Jun 4 01:21 /dev/sound
/dev/sound does not have me (phamtranquocviet) as a user, and there is no "audio" group. Could you show me how to add group and myself to audio group to see if it works.
One more thing, as I previously posted. I executed alsamixer command. A console, where i can change the volum using up arrow. I can do so for everything except headphone and line jac. Both of these are at zero level. Is that a problem. If so, could you also show me how to increase the volumn for these two.
It does not work. I still cannot change the volumn using the up arrow. This is very strange. I have a feeling something silly is missing. That volumn might be the problem. I think it is not the driver or the similar because google tells me that other people got sound out of the box on Thinkpad x40. Any other hint is greatly appreciated guys. Thanks.
hmm, aparently fedora does this differently from the standard udev . So adding yourself to the audio group won't work. Headphone and line jack shouldn't matter if you haven't put external speakers on it, so I'm afraid we're stuck.
I'll let you know if something springs to mind...
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