On Saturday 12 June 2004 09:19 am, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 Aaron; Sorry, I can't help you with your main question -- I've only been running (sorta) FC1 for a week and it set up my old Creative card automagically. You'll find the alsa site here: http://www.alsa-project.org/ BTW, Here's a great source for linux-related links: http://lottalinuxlinks.com/ -- cmg
