On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 07:45:52PM -0500, tfreeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Background - My girlfriend's RH9 machine (not on a network) got seriously > wacky, not getting through the boot sequence before rebooting, and then > not booting at all. Rather than "waste" time with proper trouble shooting, > I elected to replace. > > Problem: I'm not able to get FC4 fresh install to access the sound card > hardware. The hardware works, because Knoppix 3.9 finds the sound card and > works. Under fedora, I'm not able to play the cd drive (audio cd) nor get > the sound config gui to successfully configure the sound card. > > The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 series, 865PE Motherboard (this > from the manual) with a P-42.4 GHz processor and 256MB ram. Sound is > supposedly an integrated Realtech ALC655 AC '97 CODEC chip. > > Clues and/or actuall solutions happily accepted with thanks. > I would run alsamixer. Increase the gain (volume) on all of the relevant channels (CD for example). Change all the muted channels (MM at the bottom) to un-muted (00) by typing m. If that does not work we can debug further. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
