On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Kam Leo wrote: > On 4/22/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 09:14 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > i've just tossed stock FC6 onto a gateway mx7120 laptop and i'm > > > unable to get sound. both during firstboot and running > > > "system-config-soundcard", the following audio devices are detected: > > > > > > - IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller > > > - ATI SB400 - AC'97 Modem Controller > > > > > > but nothing i do can get the test sound to play. am i missing > > > something painfully obvious? thanks. > > > > > > rday > > > > > You seem like and old timer and should have been through this before. > > Try running alsamixer and be sure all the channels are at a proper > > height. Also channels that are to work should not be muted (that is have > > an MM at the bottom of the column. Change that to 00 by hitting the > > letter m. i went through all that and nothing. however ... > I had problem with sound a while back. In system-config-soundcard > click "System" and "Reload audio drivers" before trying sound test. > If you get sound then you need to reload your sound driver after > booting. My fix was to modify /etc/rc.local as follows: > > $ cat /etc/rc.local > #!/bin/sh > # > # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts. > # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't > # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff. > > touch /var/lock/subsys/local > modprobe -r snd-sbawe > modprobe snd-sbawe > > Replace "snd-sbawe" with the appropriate module for your system. after a fresh install, suddenly, i have sound. go figure. i did a *number* of test installs (for other reasons) on this new system, and never got sound to work once. suddenly, during this install, sound works nicely. weird. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
