Aaron Konstam wrote:
I understand the value of continuing the development of Linux as Fedora
is continuing to do, but evidently the effect is that older hardware
is no longer supportable. At least that seems to be the case with
sound in Fedora.
I have installed 13 versions of Red Hat and Fedora Linux since RH 4.x
so I htink I have some experience in configuring sound as well as some
other aspects of the Linux operating system. But my attempts to make
sound work on a era 2000 Optiplex GXi in f8 seems doomed to failure. The
degradation of sound started several versions ago. I had run FC1, Fc3
and FC4 on this machine but problems started with FC6. FC6 would not
recognize the sound card but and the correct sound drivers where not
loaded. I had to run a modprobe snd-cs4236 in /etc/rc.local to get
sound to work. A similar problem occurred in Ubuntu 6.06, 7.2 and
7.10.
In f8 we have a similar but unsolvable problem. The /etc/modprobe.conf
has lines defining the cards parameters but they are ignored during
boot in that the sound drivers are not loaded. The sound configuration
program identifies the card but the test sound is not played until you
explicitly tell it to load the drivers. But in the next boot you have
to do that again to get the test sound. The usual programs to play CDs
(such as gnome-cd) don't work reporting they can't find any sound to
play
even though one can see they accessing the correct device.
The only program that works to play CDs is grip.
cat /proc/asound/cards returns:
0 [CS4236B ]: CS4236B - CS4236B
CS4236B at 0x534, irq 5, dma 1&3
so one can see that the card is identified as card 0. I have removed
pulseaudio so that is not a factor, I have iinstalled the codecs in
/usr/lib/codecs
Now I have found that sound works as root but not as a normal user.
Someone else reported this so if a solution to this was found let me
know.
I think that chip lives on the ISA bus in the optiplex. The solution is
probably to ignore it and find a pci card that works.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
