At 10:21 PM -0500 10/24/05, Jay Moore wrote: >On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:08 -0700, Richard E Miles wrote: > >> > How in the world do I get the sound working on my M7NCG 400 mobo? >> > >> > "System Settings... Soundcard Detection" confirms what I've read: nVidia >> > AC97 is the audio device, but I just get no sound. >> > >> > Can someone point me to a resource that explains how to sort this out? >> > >> Did you try to set up your soundcard:? >> Click on Desktop then preferences then sound. What card does it find and >>does the >> play sound work? > >Yes - I tried - I clicked "Applications... System Settings... Soundcard >Detection" > >A prompt for root pw comes up, then a small window labeled "Audio >Devices" comes up, and says: > > "The following audio device was detected > > Vendor: nVidia > Model: Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) > Module: snd-intel8x0 > >There is a "Play Test Sound" button. I press it, but no sound. > >When I inspect "Applications... Prefernces... Sound", I get a small >window that has "Enable Sound server setup" checked. However, on the >Sound Events tab, trying to play various sound files produces nothing. > >Under "Applications... Preferences... More Preferences... Multimedia >Systems Selector" I get a window titled "GStreamer Preferences" w/ >Default source and sinks set to ALSA. But when I click the "Test" >button, I get an error message to the effect "failed to construct test >pipeline". > >I have no clue what this means :( > >ANy ideas are appreciated... everything else on this system works >perfectly w/ FC3, and it seems the sound chip used is mainstream... I'm >stumped! Type "alsamixer" in a terminal window and twiddle all the settings -- sometimes they aren't where they seem to be. Maybe turn on digital output. Maybe run gst-register-0.8. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
