Anthropos wrote:
I have installed Fedora Core 3 on the subject motherboard. During the reboot after installation, the sound system is tested. At this time, I heard the right channel, left channel, and both channels at normal volumes and, therefore, I clicked 'yes' to the question asking if I had heard the sound.Reading through mail in the Sound-list message archives (which I am not able to access through the search engine for this list) indicate that sound volume settings are set to zero in Fedora Core releases. Supposedly those using alsa drivers can save their volume settings before logging off and have them restored at boot through driver option entries in modprobe.conf.
After logging in as 'root', I have to turn the volume to 100% and the PCM to 100% in the software settings and I have to turn the volume knob on the speakers to 100% to hear sound. What happened?...
The MB has an AD1980 device (AC'97 SoundMax) that is recognized as a VIA 8235.
That is, the guidance offered is post-install of your sound card include an option specifying /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
and pre-remove, specify the option /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
Background on alsactl is provided in man(1)
"Supposedly" is used above since I have been trying to do this for several days without success.
