On Sat, 29 May 2004 12:11:20 -0700, Richard E Miles wrote: > Ive been having abit of difficulty getting sound to work in FC2. I did > not have these problems in FC1. > While invoking xmms to play a wav file. the following pop-up window was > observed: > couldn't open audio > Please check that > your soundcard is configured properly > you have the correct output plugin selected > no sound program is blocking the soundcard > > I also noticed the following when starting the system with startx: > a series of messages saying audio_alsa: no cards found. > > I ran system-config soundcard and it detected my ens1371 sound card and > was able to play the test sound. > I tried to play the wav file again with the same popup window message > occuring. I did a ctrl-alt-F1 to see what messages occured. The same > "audio_alsa: no cards found" message (2 times) was seen. > > I also do not have gnome sound events even after installing the libgnome > update. Is this an upgrade or a fresh install? What do you find in /etc/modprobe.conf (and /etc/modules.conf)? What output driver is configured in XMMS preferences? If you choose "OSS Driver" just for testing, does that work? What kernel modules are loaded when you try XMMS? Run /sbin/lsmod Do you find anything audio/ALSA/ens1371 related in /var/log/messages?