On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:28:56PM +1000, david walcroft wrote: > Michael Schwendt wrote: > >On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:53:05 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > > > > > >>In FC 2 I did not have sound after installing and detection of my card > >>(Audigy-emu10k1) in firstboot,I tried most things - alsamixer,kmix,aumix > >>Gnome-alsamixer,chmod's on /dev/snd* but nothing worked, I knew alsaconf > >>was not in the alsa-utils.rpm anymore so I did a cvs alsa-utils from > >>Alsa.org and compiled/installed.Now I have sound and checking my lsmod, > >>modprobe.conf there is big difference between the new and old setup's. > >> > >>So I am curious as to why alsaconf was pulled from alsa-utils when it's > >>possible that sound will work better with it included. > >> > >> Thanks david > > > > > >What big differences exactly? If you can't post a diff, attach what > >you've got right now. > > > >alsaconf doesn't know about /etc/modprobe.conf.dist > > > >And it doesn't insert alsactl calls into /etc/modprobe.conf either, > >because the ALSA 'alsasound' initscript is expected to do that > >(and that one is not needed/used with Fedora Core 2). > > > >The only interesting thing in the alsasound script is, that it attempts > >at setting default volume levels. > > > I have provided a diff of Alsa tests on a before/after installing > "alsaconf'.So alsaconf should not be able to work in FC2 Alsa is that > correct,could it be though that people having problems with their sound > might benefit from installing alsaconf regardless. > > david I don't understand the solution above. Could someone explain clearly how you get a sound card to work under FC2? It does not help that we have a reference to ALSA,org which is the home page of the Lu Gehrig disease people. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
