Greg Morgan
1.) I did not have to make BIOS changes because the computer was
working properly before the Fedora Core series. I may have had
Red Hat 7.3 or 8.0 on it before. Be aware that this could be a
trouble shooting area. 2.) Make sure the cables are in the right place.
a.) Speakers are plugged into sound out or line out.
b.) Hook up internal cable from cd-rom to sound card.
Yeah Yeah. I raided the CD-R/W drive and forgot to hook the
new CD-R drive to the sound card internally. I could have
been done sooner. ;-) 3.) Red Hat does not support ISA Sound cards any longer.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122838
Perform manual steps for Sound Blaster AWE-32/AWE-64 or other ISA
sound cards. You will have to replace snd-sbawe with the driver
for your card in the /etc/modprobe.conf file. These are the lines
that the fedora hat>System Tools>Soundcard Detection application
would put in your /etc/modprobe.conf file, if it supported ISA
cards. 4.) Edit /etc/modprobe.conf and add these lines as root. Note, the
lines may rap in email. Each line should be entered on one line.alias snd-card-0 snd-sbawe
install snd-sbawe /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-sbawe && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-sbawe { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-sbawe
I used the above modprobe.conf settings. You may need to pass in
options to the soundcard, if you have any problems. The
modprobe.conf may look like the following. However, I have
not tested this.alias snd-card-0 snd-sbawe
options sound dmabuf=1
options snd-sbawe io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 dma16=3 mpu_io=0x330
install snd-sbawe /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-sbawe && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-sbawe { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-sbawe
5.) Modprobe the sound module at the command prompt as root. Again
change the soundcard driver if you are not using sbawe.
/sbin/modprobe snd-sbawe 6.) Set the sound levels via normal a user with
fedora hat>Sound & Video>Volume Control.
Make sure to set master, CD, line in, PCM, etc. There are two
tabs to make these changes to. 7.) Set the sound server preferences with
fedora hat>Preferences>Sound.
While on the General tab check Enable sound server startup.
If you desire, check Sound for events.
Finally, adjust your other preferences on the remaining two tabs.
Don't forget to set the volume on the speakers if it there is a
control on it. 8.) Test a wave file with
fedora hat>System Tools>Terminal.
Then enter this command in the window
aplay /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav
Close the terminal window.
Note that the PCM slider c 9.) Play a CD with
fedora hat>Sound & Video>CD Player.10.) Now because of my cable issues I rebooted along the way.
You may have to set the sound levels as you did in step five.
The reboot may be helpful after the modprobe.conf settings are
in place. However, I think this covers all the things I did.References:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-June/msg03935.html http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122838 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124003 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-August/msg03832.html http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ntopic22347.html http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&forumid=33&threadid=166983 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=185411 http://hnr.dyndns.org/howto/Soundblaster-AWE.pdf http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ntopic22347.html
