> > It would be nice to know which soundcard Frank Chiulli has on his machine, > that gave a similar problem to you, and if the soundcard was picked up > automatically when he did the install, or whether he had to run > system-config-soundcard to configure the card, and only after doing that, > discovered the badline in /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms. > > Aaron. Do you still have to add a "modprobe snd-cs4236" line in /etc/rc.local > in F8, as you had to do since FC6, as per your earlier post? > > I wonder if this is a kernel, or Alsa related problem, as you said it wasn't > limited to Fedora 6 onwards, but also on Ubuntu 6.06, 7.2, and 7.10, > therefore the problem with snd-cs4236 does not, on the face of it appear to > be distro specific. By the way, and IIRC, I thought I read somewhere that > support for isa soundcards was not as it used to be. > > Would you download this script, as below, run it, and post the link to > pastebin back. It may well provide some usefull info about your machine, > soundcard, etc. > > http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-file/tip/alsa-info.sh > > It may be usefull to the Alsa development folks, and I'll post the pastebin > link there, with all the relevant details regarding your isa soundcard, and > what is necessary to get it to work. > > Nice to have the sounds working again eh! > > All the best. > > Nigel. > Well I got alsa-info.sh to run and the result is posted at: http://pastebin.ca/903074 The result does nto seem as complete as the result from the f7 run. Anyway, if anyone can learn anything from this output please share your thoughts with me. -- ======================================================================= Sacred cows make great hamburgers. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx