Everyone: I recently acquired a Gateway Performance 1000XL from another user who was upgrading his machine. It came with a Creative Labs SBLive! sound card and a Boston Acoustics speaker system with four speakers and a sub-woofer. He was running Windows ME, and the sound worked fine. Then I installed Fedora Core 2. For the most part, FC2 has worked well. But I have never gotten a spark out of the sound system. It detects the chip-set all right (emu10k1), but when it goes to play the test sound, the speakers stay stubbornly silent. I have tried alsaconf and modprobe emu10k1, without result. This is the only problem I have with the system, and I'd like to get it resolved. I'd rather not rip the sound card out and install a new one, not if I have a perfectly functional sound card to work with. The only thing I haven't tried so far is to take the sound card out, run the system through one session, shut it down again, and then replace the sound card and try to auto-detect after that. In all my experimenting with Linux (and it's been about nine months now, and I began with FC1), sound has been my biggest source of frustration. I am open to any suggestion--including ripping out the sound card and leaving it out and not bothering. TAH
