Re: No sound on laptop after FC1->FC3 upgrade

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On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 00:47 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 09:19 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> > Summary:
> > 
> > IBM Thinkpad A22p with Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear
> > SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] chip. Worked fine under FC1. After
> > upgrading to FC3, I get no sound output at all from RealPlayer 8.0-1, or
> > anything else.
> 
> Adding to my original post... When I run System Settings -> Soundcard
> Detection and click on the [ Play test sound ] bar, I can hear the test
> sound, but _very_ faintly.
> 

This is good.  click the yes button on hearing the sound, then go to
your mixer (alsamixer or aumix) and set the volumes.   It then should
work. Did for me.

> When I run 'setup' from an Xterm command prompt and select 'Sound card
> configuration', it runs sndconfig which promptly reports:
> 
>                  --| ERROR: No Sound Modules found |--
>         
>         You don't seem to be running a kernel with modular sound
>         enabled. (soundcore.o was not found in the module search path).
>         To use sndconfig, you must be running a kernel with modular
>         sound, such as the kernel shipped with Red Hat Linux or a 2.2
>         or greater kernel.
> 
> This is not surprising because soundcore.o is now named soundcore.ko. I
> note that sndconfig says it's a tool for legacy sound cards. As such,
> should it be replaced by a more up-to-date tool in 'setup'?
> 

Don't run that one. the other sets it up properly.  The gui is the
correct tool to use.

> -- Doc
> Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
> Fedora Core 3 kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 on a P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
> "Perfection is the enemy of good enough."
>                          -- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov
> 


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