[LUAU] Fedora Core 2 and Silence
Aloha, I upgraded to FC2 from RH 9 yesterday and today I noticed that the CD player will not make any noise. Grip, xmms, the gnome-cd etc all start up OK, and will 'play' their files -- only no sound is heard from the speakers. My box has a soundblaster 16 card, the same card that has worked just fine through many upgrades since the box came with VALinux 6.0 (a slightly customized RH 6.0) a few years ago. The only change to the box has been the install of FC2. I have googled and read messages and tried all sorts of stuff, but no matter what I try to /etc/modules.conf or with alsa, the sound card is not detected and therefore cannot be coaxed to work. I feel quite sure I am missing the obvious, but sndconfig is gone from FC2, so I am out of airspeed and ideas right now. If anybody has any ideas, I would be grateful -- the silence is deafening. Mahalos in Advance, Ben
Re: [LUAU] Fedora Core 2 and Silence
Aloha, That fixed it! Suddenly the volume control started working and I could access the rest of the mixer controls! Funny thing is I was already running Gnome desktop. Go figure that ;-) Mahalo Nui Loa, Ben On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 23:21, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: > Switch to GNOME (on an x-term, run the command swtichdesk gnome), log > out and log in. Turn up your volume, then see what happened. > > Ben Beeson wrote: >
Re: [LUAU] Fedora Core 2 and Silence
Aloha all, I found a more permanent fix to this one -- reference the thread that I started Mon Sep 13 19:48:58 HST 2004 in the September 2004 LUAU archives. I discovered that FC2 does not have the Red Hat sound configure tool any more. It also appears to be missing the /etc/modules.conf file in a default install. (Don't know why and I don't know if this will work for FC3 as I am still using FC2.) If you add the /etc/modules.conf file back with contents such as this: # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-sb16 # module options should go here options snd-sb16 index=0 id="SB-16" port=0x220 mpu_port=0x330 irq=5 dma8=1 dma16=5 isapnp=0 # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss then your sound survives system updates. More details for the particular entries needed for various sound cards is available at: http://www.alsa-project.org/ Just follow the supported sound cards link and fill in your soundcard manufacturer in the search box at the bottom of that page to be taken to the goods for your particular sound card. Enjoy it in stereo now, Ben
Re: [LUAU] Fedora Core 2 and Silence
Ben Beeson wrote: Aloha all, I found a more permanent fix to this one -- reference the thread that I started Mon Sep 13 19:48:58 HST 2004 in the September 2004 LUAU archives. I discovered that FC2 does not have the Red Hat sound configure tool any more. It also appears to be missing the /etc/modules.conf file in a default install. (Don't know why and I don't know if this will work for FC3 as I am still using FC2.) If you add the /etc/modules.conf file back with contents such as this: modules.conf is NOT USED AT ALL in FC2 and FC3, because it was for the 2.4.x kernel. 2.6.x kernel uses /etc/modprobe.conf, which should not require any manual editing because /etc/modprobe.conf.dist already has everything. The old sound configuration tool has been removed, in favor of system-config-soundcard which should do the job. Note that all ISA soundcard drivers were removed from FC2, but later re-added in FC3. Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [LUAU] Fedora Core 2 and Silence
Warren, Thanks for your note. Just for grins I have tried the system-config-soundcard a few times. Always I get a "No Soundcard Detected" answer back. Would a better fix be to copy the contents of my /etc/modules.conf to the /etc/modprobe.conf file? Right now that file has only one entry, and that is for my network adapter. There are no alsa driver entries for my card in the /etc/modprobe.conf.dist file. If that is a better place for them, I can place them there also. For now though sound is working again. Mahalos again, Ben On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 04:47, Warren Togami wrote: > Ben Beeson wrote: > > Aloha all, > > > > I found a more permanent fix to this one -- reference the thread that I > > started Mon Sep 13 19:48:58 HST 2004 in the September 2004 LUAU > > archives. > > > > I discovered that FC2 does not have the Red Hat sound configure tool > > any more. It also appears to be missing the /etc/modules.conf file in a > > default install. (Don't know why and I don't know if this will work for > > FC3 as I am still using FC2.) If you add the /etc/modules.conf file > > back with contents such as this: > > modules.conf is NOT USED AT ALL in FC2 and FC3, because it was for the > 2.4.x kernel. 2.6.x kernel uses /etc/modprobe.conf, which should not > require any manual editing because /etc/modprobe.conf.dist already has > everything. > > The old sound configuration tool has been removed, in favor of > system-config-soundcard which should do the job. Note that all ISA > soundcard drivers were removed from FC2, but later re-added in FC3. > > Warren Togami > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___ > LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list > http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
