Sound Card issues

[darkscript]

Okay, fresh install of fedora 7 on a new hp dv2000 laptop, less than a few weeks old.

No sound at all.

actually I'm getting readings of 2 different sound cards in various configuration dialogues

In sound preferences It shows, besides the obvious autodetect , alsa, esd, and oss options, I have conexant digital, and conexant analogue,

then down lower in that same config we have default mixer tracks showing

1. HDA Nvidia (alsa Mixer)
2. Conexant 20549 (venice) (oss mixer)

back in windows, in device manager, It shows my sound card as nvidia nForce Network controller, as well as conexant HD Audio


I'm unsure whats going on here. everything appears to match up as far as drivers and stuff go, and the machine seems to think its playing back sound, but its not...and Its not muted.

I just need some help. And again, thank you for your time.

[darkscript]

as I continue searching for the answer, I looked up each driver, and it turns out Conexant 20549 is a modem. so, i can see why fedora would pick it up as a sound card as they are similar.. but that helps limit it down a bit.

[Ronald Franklin]

I had a similiar problem. Check and see if the sound mixer has defaulted to the headset jack. I had to change it to surround (Alsa Mixer) before I got the sound to come out of the laptop speakers.

[darkscript]

no such thing...it appears that its going to the modem... of all places...and i cant find out how to change it... in any case i'm giving ubuntu a shot now

[zackf]

I actually had this same issue with FC6, you can just right click the sound icon by the clock and go to preferences to change it. Hope this helps.

[darkscript]

no such luck. i can change it to hda nvidia(alsa mixer) in the preferences menu, however... i still get no sound...

Same problem in ubuntu.

[zackf]

Is it also on "Speaker" in the list below where you can select between the Nvidia sound card and modem? It's got to be close because I have an HP dv6000 and get the exact same thing as you do..

[darkscript]

I'm not sure what you mean.. I actually installed ubuntu, because I was sick of the problems in fedora, but it turns out i'm having the same troubles on that side of the coin as well... But its really strange...because if i log out in ubuntu, it will play a noise when I get to the GDM, so something must be working properly.

Anyways, I'm ReInstalling F7 Now.

[A.Serbinski]

System --> Preferences --> Hardware --> Sound.
Under the "Devices" tab, enable ALSA for ALL OPTION.

Then run your favorite mixer program and make sure that you enable sound to the right place. Note that sometimes you may need to actually DISABLE some output, ie., DIGITAL, which if enabled, all your sound might be directed there instead of your analog speakers. You may need to try EVERY possible combination of settings in the mixer in order to get functional sound.

[darkscript]

Okay that might be the problem I've done everything as you said above. I just dont know how to disable digital output, which may very well be the cause of the problem because I know the machine does try to do digital output

[A.Serbinski]

As I said, in your mixer program. Mute = disabled.

[darkscript]

like alsamixer...everything looks as if its unmuted... all sliders up and unmuted...

i'm not stupid, i thought this was some hidden config file setting

in any case everything is unmuted && no sound.

[leadgolem]

I think what he was getting at, is you need to mute the digital channel. Had the same problem with a soundblaster in FC5. Drove me nuts until I got it fixed.

[darkscript]

Pardon me for sounding somewhat of a dimwit, but I have no idea how to do that.

[leadgolem]

In a terminal, runalsamixerThen use the arrow keys to move over to the digital channel, usually this will be called spdif, then use the arrow keys to turn the volume to 00. Hit esc when finished. Then try playing a sound again.

There is no shame in ignorance.:)

[darkscript]

spdif eh... i'll give that a shot

[ramasees]

ive had similar problems which fixed mine and should fix yours

download the alsa driver from here ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver
the alsa-driver-1.0.14rc4.tar.bz2
untar it then as root cd to the directory and do
./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
make
make install

restart dont forget to add surround and uncheck it this is your front speakers
if you have trouble compiling its cos you need probably

yum install gcc kernel-devel

hope this was some help

[darkscript]

thanks for the help. I actually recompiled the alsa with --with-cards=hda-intel and it didn't help much

[zackf]

I know this sounds ridiculous, but also turn the volume up, for some reason my volume is reeealllly low until I get it above about halfway, then it almost acts normal.

[darkscript]

I have tried absolutely everything. Volume up 100% on everything... I'm positive its not a simple problem.