This is the 4th time I try to post the reply below. The three previous have not shown up on the gmane list for some unknown reason... Is there a deamon that is actively erasing my messages? Now I am posting this message as a new thread (but with the old text) to see if tha will help. All of course via the GMANE news gateway. On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:40:33 -0700, stan <goedigi89__e@xxxxxxx> wrote: >Bo Berglund wrote: >> As can be seen in my thread concerning successful installation of F7 >> in VPC2007 I am still missing sound support. >> It is very strange because if I enter the menu command >> System/Administration/Soundcard detection >> I get to a window where I can test my emulated soundcard (Soundblaster >> 16) and it produces really nice sounds. >> >> But when I go to the menu command >> System/Preferences/Hardware/Sound and enter the Sounds tab where there >> are a number of system sounds to select and test, there is no sound >> when I click the play buttons. >> >> So what is the problem here? >> (Someone suggested to check the Alsa Mixer, but that did not lead >> anywhere). >> >> >> Bo Berglund >> >> >There was a recent thread about a similar problem. You could search on >gmane.org. > >For now, try aplay -lLv to see if alsa is seeing your sound device. Returns this: default:CARD=S16 Sound Blaster 16, DSP v4.13 Default Audio Device null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: S16 [Sound Blaster 16], device 0: SB16 DSP [DSP v4.13] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Not much of this that I understand, what does it mean??? > >And aplay -Dhw:0,0 some.wav to see if alsa sound is working. I assume that you are not saying there should be a file named "some.wav", right? On a freshly installed Fedora7 box where nothing else has been done, where can one find a wav file to use as a test? I have no connectivity over to my Windows box except the virtual PC window I am using to run the guest operating system in. I hade to type the above result from the screen to this message for instance. I do have wav files on my Windows PC, but I cannot get them over to the Fedora PC. There should exist something since the device test uses sound. But where? > >If the above give reasonable information, it is a configuration issue. >Your sound card is being recognized, the sound just has to be routed >correctly. Because the sound test is working, this is likely the case. > >If that is true, do a search for .asoundrc with the name of your sound >card or sound chip for likely solutions. Search where? On the Fedora7 PC or Google? Bo Berglund