Ah. I think there is a little gem of a bug in esd or alsa causing a these gnome startup freezes with certain soundcards. I've got a nvidia MPC51 and I've got the problem too. I suspect many others have it. It didn't effect me in FC6. Here's a workaround for the time being. When gnome 'locks' at startup 1) press CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a console. 2) log into the console and kill the esound server "kill $(pidof esd)" 3) switch back to X/gnome with CTRL-ALT-F7 4) Startup should be continuing as normal 5) goto System->Preferences->Hardware->Sound 6) Choose the "sounds" tab and turn off "enable software sound mixing(ESD)" This should get you going without gnome sounds for the time being until there is a fix or a workaround. I'm looking for a work around and I'll post back if I can find one. > Well there's another problem that goes along with this. If the sound card > is on within the Bios and my father boots his computer up to Gnome when he > logs in the icons do not appear. What might be causing this? I was > getting > a message about too many things being on a serial prot and that 8250 > worked > too hard. I pulled out one of the offending items a Windows modem. > > Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of stan > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 7:52 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: problem with sound on my father's computer > > On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:19:22 -0500 > "Scott Berry" <sberry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hello there, >> >> We are having problems with sounmd on my father's computer. I see >> that it looks like a whole bunch of things are using the same memory >> address. Here are the items I get when using lspci: >> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC >> Interface Bridge (rev 02) >> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE >> Controller (rev 02) >> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA >> Controller (rev 02) >> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus >> Controller (rev 02) >> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER >> (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Contro >> ller (rev 02) >> >> What can I do about this? >> >> Scott >> >> >> > I found out today again that many devices can share the same interrupt > under linux. So I don't think this is your problem. > > run aplay -lLv to see if there are any sound cards recognized and if > alsa has defined any aliases. > > Then run > aplay -D hw:0,0 some.wav > if there is at least one sound card. > > If this works, you have a configuration/cabling issue. Check that the > sound card you played is the one with speakers. Then use an > application like xmms to change the sound to the appropriate driver and > play a song. > > If you have no sound cards, it is possible that the sound is not > supported by alsa or it is turned off in the bios. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.6/828 - Release Date: 6/1/2007 > 11:22 AM > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
