Edward wrote:
Nat Gross wrote:
Nat Gross wrote:
Ok, friends. It's time to sound off. (umm.. I mean sound ON. How
long can I go without sound?)
I have followed various threads about this but I have never got
sound with Linux on this machine, whose sound hardware is working
under dualboot Windoz.
Hardware: Dell 4500 with 82801BA/BAM AC'97.
OS: FC3 2.6.10-1.770
Seems like this is beyond help on fc3. Do I have a better chance with
sound on FC4T1?
Thanks;
-nat
Just my 2c on this - I HOPE SO.
Sound is a major problem on FC3. I'm sick of having to work around it.
Why on earth the mixer has those weird defaults which simply don't
work is beyond me.
Basically the only way I can get sound to work is:
1> Detect the sound card.
2> Use alsa-mixer to unmute all and pump the volumes up to the highest
possible.
3> Use alsa save command to then save those settings.
4> Then in my rc.local I run the alsa restore command to load them up
at boot-up.
This is the only way I can get sound to work 100% of the time. If
there's an easier way I'm all ears, but why oh why does it have to be
so involved. I'm not a newbie anymore, so working around things is
second nature, but why do we have to? I did not have these problems in
the Redhat series, FC1 or FC2. You detected the sound card (or the
installer/kudzu did it) and that was it.
Admittedly I only have to do the above once for each PC I install FC3
on, but still.
I don't think it's worthy of a bugzilla, but if any Fedora developers
are listening on this list, bumping up the priority on making sound
work better on FC4 would be heaven for newbies methinks.
Regards,
Ed.
Another vote/request for more attention to sound development and install
default settings! For desktop system ops who regularly shutdown
systems, default sound settings in FC2 (and apparently FC3) are/were an
irritating PITA -- particularly so if they are linux/fedora newbies or
neophytes.
