Craig wrote:
i will certainly do that. Dave and i have mobos from ECS, Dave's using the RealTek ALC100/P AC'97 CODEC chip in his Via south bridge, and mine using a CMI9739/6CH AC'97 CODEC in an Sis south bridge. i browsed around in the 2.6.10 changelog and it looks like there's a fair amount of work being done in the [ALSA] area wrt to AC'97 (both of our codec chips mentioned in several separate entries).blank wrote:
On the alsa site, also an email to fedoranews.org, fedoraforum.org or the fedoraDave wrote:
OK, next gripe. It detects my hardware, loads modules, I've used alsamixer to make sure it's unmuted, I've used aRTS Control Tool to turn up the volume, I've checked settings under aumix, nothing. There's no longer a "volume control" menu item under "Sound & Video" or I would have tried that.
Not even a decent error message. system-config-soundcard says it found a VIA VT8233/A 8235/8237 AC87 Audio Controller and used module snd_via82xx. Hitting the 'play test sound' button produces the following output in the terminal window:
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Front Left: Playback 23 [74%] [on]
Front Right: Playback 23 [74%] [on]
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
Warning: rate is not accurate (requested = 44100Hz, got = 48000Hz)
please, try the plug plugin (-Dplug:hw:0,0)
No sound shows up.
/dev/mixer shows up with rw permission for my userid.
lsmod shows:
snd 54053 9 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
snd_ac97_codec 64401 1 snd_via82xx snd_mixer_oss 17217 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_mpu401_uart 8769 1 snd_via82xx snd_page_alloc 9673 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm snd_pcm 97993 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm_oss 47609 0 snd_rawmidi 26725 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 8137 1 snd_rawmidi snd_timer 29765 1 snd_pcm snd_via82xx 27237 0 soundcore 9889 1 snd
Motherboard is an ECS K7VTA3.
Suggestions?
Dave,
i have sound.
People have been talking about muting this or that in alsamixer. Well, as a "one last time, i'll check this thing out".
Well, i didn't have to change any mute settings, but i did change the item "IEC958" from "analog" to "digital". This item is 19 to the right of start in alsamixer.
i don't know enough to say if your settings' listings will be the same on another card, but i now have sound for the first time in a few weeks. i am very relieved :)
Where else should i make sure this info can be found?
community portal (fcp.homelinux.org) would all be excellent suggestions.
Moreover bugzilla redhat to add this into the documentation/fix list for fc4,
which is the next release.
Craig
i will certainly let the ALSA folks know what happened and how i fixed it (not really a fix, more config).
jb
