On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 16:59 -0800, cromworshipper-fedorastuff@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > My problems are summarised in two bug reports: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=366061 > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3594 > > system-config-soundcard plays nothing at all, and speaker-test plays > on only one speaker. About a month before F8 came out, sound would > work intermittently. With F8, I haven't gotten it to work at all. > I've uninstalled all the pulse-audio RPMs and their remnants just to > simplify this. The bugzilla ticket I filed hasn't seen much action > that I've seen. > > How do I get sound to work on this machine properly? My most recent > attempt was to compile and install directly from the mercurial > sources. I don't see any changes in the behaviour of my machine when > I did that. I don't really understand ALSA or sound so my ability to > debug this is limited, but I'm willing to try patches or debug builds > if available. > > > For fun, check out all the sound bugs with Fedora 7 & 8, there are > quite a few: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?product=Fedora&version=f7&version=f8&component=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=MODIFIED&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=sound&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc= The fact that only one speaker works sounds like a hardware problem but here are things to look at: 1. identify the soundcard from boot messages and lspci or lshal. 2. check the correct module is being loaded in /etc/modprobe.conf . Also check lsmod 3. check alsamixer to see if appropriate sound levels are ok. No level should have MM at base, meaning it is muted. Typing m changes it. -- ======================================================================= Conquest is easy. Control is not. -- Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror", stardate unknown ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
