I have used about 100 different combinations for mixer values... maxing everything unmuting everything, turning off/on random switches Is there anyone with the old sound drivers for FC3 because alsa is horrible. -Lane On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 16:45 -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:21:08PM -0800, Lane Inman wrote: > > Okay; > > I sent this before and got detoured, but it is a very annoying > > problem. Please read the description as each time I post the question, > > I get the same answers (none of which have gotten my sound card to > > work): > > > > 1) soundconfig does not work - it says the card is detected, and when it > > "plays" a test sound I get nothing. > > 2) then gnome-alsa sound mixer does not improve it either > > 3) the rest of the information is below: > > > > > It is time for some truths. The actions of the alsa support for sound > has been screwy since FC1. The behavior is hardware dependent. I am > getting sound on a machine where system-config-soundcard says it can > not recognize a soundcard. With FC1 and FC3 the soundcard is > obviously recognized since the appropriate lines are placed in the > modprobe.conf file. FC2 had no lines put in this file so sound does > not work on the machine even if I put the lines in the file by hand. > Anyway to get sound working on under the versions of FC which will > produce sound the process is one of: > 1. configuring channels with alamixer > 2, setting the volume with the volume control option. > 3. If you want the CD-s to play and gnome-cd won't do it and it > does not on this machine use grip and it works. > > ======================================================================= > write-protect tab, n.: > A small sticker created to cover the unsightly notch carelessly left > by disk manufacturers. The use of the tab creates an error message > once in a while, but its aesthetic value far outweighs the momentary > inconvenience. > -- Robb Russon > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > One Trinity Place. > San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 > > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
