On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:25:46 +0200 "Christian Menzel" <christian.menzel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/21/07, Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Jeez, what kind of soundcard is it? IRQ conflict might not be out > > of the question. If you're still desperate, jerk more cards out to > > see if that resolves a possible conflict. What kind of mo-board and > > processor, how much ram? I assume you have checked the mixer, got > > the speakers plugged in,? Plugged into the "speaker out" and not > > the "mike"? (I've done that!) They are turned on and the volume > > about halfway up. > > > > If it's a good ole ISA SoundBlaster AWE64, they have mentioned that > > support has been dropped and it takes a bit of wrangling to get one > > to work. Ric > > > > It's a PCI soundblaster which was working for month without any > problems. When I boot a live system from DVD sound is working. > I think it stopped working when I tried to use Audacity to capture > from lineIn. > > There must be a master mixer or something that thinks the card is > muted. Even if I boot into runlevel 3 and try auplay as root, I hear > nothing. > > Waiting for FC7... > Chris > You can check what audacity thinks is the card it is using by going into edit:preferences. There is a selection drop down for play and record separately. Then from a console or terminal type aplay -lLv to see what devices alsa has defined as aliases. Once you know that try aplay -D one of the devices some.wav. Make sure that the speaker out is plugged into the correct jack. The aplay -lLv should also give you the hardware devices. if aplay -D some device alias doesn't work, try aplay -D hwplug:0,0 some.wav, or whichever devices alsa has assigned. My past experience indicates that alsa keeps some internal state information that can wreak havoc while having problems. And did you remove any .asoundrc in ~/home or asound.state or asound.conf in /etc before you removed the card and plugged it back in? That could cause problems also. If none of this works, ask on the alsa-devel list. They will want a lot of information before they can help you, but they are very knowledgeable about sound issues.
