C-Media 8738 Detected but Silent Fedora Core
 

Hello,

I have just installed a new sound-card and am trying to get it to work.

I am running Fedora Core, but am unsure how to find out what version. logged in as root I do the sound-card detection and everything seems to work fine except for the test sound. I have tried telling it that it is heard and still don't get anything out when I play a CD.

I have tried both the green output on the card and the black output.

I have also messed around muting different items in the volume control.

I tried to install the software on the CD that came with the sound-card, but I get errors. I sort of stopped trying because, I feel that if the sound-card detection detects then it should have the drivers, etc.

I tried Alsa previously, but I ran into errors. When I say previously I mean when I was trying to get my Turtle Beach Montego 2 card to work.

I would go into more detail about the errors about the installations attempted in the terminal, but ti was trial and error by someone who was not super confident or knowledgeable and didn't have the sessions copied to a txt file.

Thanks In Advance,

FADAM

I have noticed in a couple of the other threads that people like to see the lsmod and lspci -v responses

[root@cs2417587-13 root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 3516 0 (autoclean)
udf 94176 0 (autoclean)
cmpci 39828 1 (autoclean)
gameport 3380 0 (autoclean) [cmpci]
soundcore 6468 4 (autoclean) [cmpci]
parport_pc 18756 1 (autoclean)
lp 8580 0 (autoclean)
parport 37056 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 12084 0 (autoclean) (unused)
8139too 16616 1
mii 3992 0 [8139too]
ipt_REJECT 4248 1 (autoclean)
ipt_state 1080 1 (autoclean)
ip_conntrack 28552 1 (autoclean) [ipt_state]
iptable_filter 2444 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 15136 3 [ipt_REJECT ipt_state iptable_filter]
floppy 57308 0 (autoclean)
sg 35436 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 17400 0 (autoclean)
microcode 4188 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 12016 0
scsi_mod 110280 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 34432 0
cdrom 34592 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev 2656 0 (unused)
hid 23908 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 20008 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 21544 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 26124 0 (unused)
usbcore 78752 1 [hid ehci-hcd usb-ohci usb-uhci]
mousedev 5268 1 (autoclean)
input 5888 0 (autoclean) [keybdev hid mousedev]
ext3 71620 2
jbd 51276 2 [ext3]
[root@cs2417587-13 root]# lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 128
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
Memory behind bridge: f5000000-f5ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fc000000-fdffffff

00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at 1c20 [size=16]

00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=32]

00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

00:0d.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

00:0d.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Unknown device 17fc:1688
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at f4001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] #0a [2090]

00:0e.0 Multimedia controller: C-Cube Microsystems Cinemaster C 3.0 DVD Decoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: quadrant international Cinemaster C 3.0 DVD Decoder
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1

00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
Subsystem: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 4
I/O ports at 1400 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:10.0 Communication controller: 5610 56K FaxModem WinModem
Subsystem: 5610 56K FaxModem: Unknown device 005d
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
Memory at f4001800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64]
Memory at f4210000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K]
Memory at f4008000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Unknown device 4554:434e
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 4
I/O ports at 1800 [size=256]
Memory at f4001400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 11) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Diamond Multimedia Systems RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0