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I just installed FC 3 and it can detect my sound card and testing using the soundcard detection passed. But when i want to configue the volume control, it says "Sory no mixer elements/or devices found. What does it means ? My sound card is AC'97 Audio controller on a notebook. Wen putting music CD , cd player reported error. Pls advise how to fix it. Thanks
ALSA is the core of running sound on Fedora Core 3. As kornerr suggests, running "alsaconf" is the sound card configuration tool. He (kornerr) means:
1. Open a terminal as root user, enter passwd.
2. Type "alsaconf" without the quote marks.
3. The ALSA soundcard configuration tool will appear, folow the instructions.
kornerr is most helpful. I suggest you follow his advice if you have further questions or issues with sound.
ALSA is the core of running sound on Fedora Core 3. As kornerr suggests, running "alsaconf" is the sound card configuration tool. He (kornerr) means:
1. Open a terminal as root user, enter passwd.
2. Type "alsaconf" without the quote marks.
3. The ALSA soundcard configuration tool will appear, folow the instructions.
kornerr is most helpful. I suggest you follow his advice if you have further questions or issues with sound.
Well... let's see what commands you have which begin from "alsa" word.
All commands usually are meant to be run by "root" user, so I omit repeating it.
In console type
Code:
alsa
and press <Tab> (once or twice)
Here's my output of such manipulations:
Code:
alsa<Tab>
alsaconf alsactl alsalisp alsamixer
This means I have all what's necessary for sound.
If you get nothing... you have no ALSA installed. I can only wonder how it can be this way.
Hi, i have these files only , no alsaconf. How to install it ? Thanks
alsactl alsalisp alsamixer
Regards
Daniel
Quote:
Originally posted by kornerr Well... let's see what commands you have which begin from "alsa" word.
All commands usually are meant to be run by "root" user, so I omit repeating it.
In console type
Code:
alsa
and press <Tab> (once or twice)
Here's my output of such manipulations:
Code:
alsa<Tab>
alsaconf alsactl alsalisp alsamixer
This means I have all what's necessary for sound.
If you get nothing... you have no ALSA installed. I can only wonder how it can be this way.
#1) Ensure you did a system update using up2date or yum. This will ensure your installation is completely updated including the latest kernel, then as root do:
yum install alsa-utils
or
#2) Locate the alsa-utils pkg on the install disks located in the RPM folder of each disk and double click, then use the system install choice in the window that appears.
Why not use the rpm tools available, then as updates become available, your system tools will take care of it. If you compile from source, you will always have to compile every time.
All alsa rpm pkgs (including alsa-utils) for fedora core 3 in the system install disks. Since FC3 is an rpm based distribution, why not just install the rpm package which was designed for the system. This precludes having to compile from source code.
Additionally, when the yum repos are configured well, the user simply does "yum update" and if there is an upgrade in alsa rpm pkgs, yum simply updates the FC3 alsa pkgs automatically.
Thus, it is not necessary to comile alsa-utils, which I think is confusing, especially for new users who may not have all the development pkgs installed to compile source. Further, each time a new alsa-utils pkg is released, the user has to compile and install each time.
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