Soundcard

[bobthejanitor]

I just installed FC2 test 3, but my soundcard was not recognized during the install or anytime after. I have a Sound Blaster 16 ISA card that worked fine under Red Hat 9 and in Windows XP.

When I run the Soundcard Detection utility, it just says that no soundcard were detected. I know the card and speakers work, because they work fine in Windows XP.

Let me know what you think.

[Picomp314]

can you attach your /etc/modules.conf

[bobthejanitor]

I dont' have a modules.conf in the /etc folder.

[s0lus]

....could be a problem.....

...:confused:

[Bana]

I think Picomp meant /etc/modprobe.conf (changed in 2.6 kernel).

[bobthejanitor]

That I do have:

alias eth0 3c509x
alias char-major-81 bttv
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd

[imdeemvp]

goto System Tool > Hardware Browser > Sound Cards

if it appears there...then fedora detected your ISA sound card...at the installation when you were prompted to do sound test did it work?

[bobthejanitor]

There isn't a section in the hardware browser called sound cards. It never asked me during the install to configure a sound card.
Is there some way I can make it search for it?

[Picomp314]

give the output of
lspci -v

[bobthejanitor]

I can't get that command to work, it says that the commmand isn't found. But I can view the man page...

[pdb]

Probably lspci is in /sbin. Running 'whereis lspci' will probably tell you, then you can include the full path to run it (for ex. '/sbin/lspci').

If you get tired of doing this all the time when you are ironing out system issues, use 'su -' to get to a root shell and most of the path issues will be taken care of.

[bobthejanitor]

Thanks for the tip, that worked well.

Here is the output for lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 IEEE-1394 Controller
00:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02)
00:0f.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02)
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV10DDR [GeForce 256 DDR] (rev 10)

[bobthejanitor]

Forgot to add -v to that command.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 128
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
Memory behind bridge: e9000000-e9ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff

00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at 10a0 [size=16]

00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1080 [size=32]

00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

00:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 IEEE-1394 Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8010
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
Memory at e8004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1

00:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02)
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0003
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 132, IRQ 3
Memory at e8005000 (32-bit, prefetchable)

00:0f.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02)
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc TV-Wonder/VE
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 3
Memory at e8006000 (32-bit, prefetchable)

00:10.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905C-TX Fast Etherlink for PC Management NIC
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1000
Memory at e8004800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV10DDR [GeForce 256 DDR] (rev 10) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0014
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at e9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0

[bobthejanitor]

Is there some way I can scan for the card? I've tried removing the card, then rebooting, then putting the card back and it still doesn't detect it. I only have one ISA slot, so I can't try another one.
Short of buying a new PCI sound card, is there anything I can do?

[pdb]

Try adding the following to /etc/modprobe.conf:
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd

alias snd-card-0 snd-sb16
options snd-sb16 isapnp=1
After you change that you can run in terminal# modprobe snd-card-0
I don't have that sound card, but I think that snd-sb16 might be the right one for your Sound Blaster 16. Anyway, give it a try and see if it works. The volume might be initialized to mute and 0, so you may need to use alsamixer to turn it on and up.

[woddfellow2]

goto System Tool > Hardware Browser > Sound Cards

if it appears there...then fedora detected your ISA sound card...at the installation when you were prompted to do sound test did it work?
It appears there (but not under the name Sound Blaster 16).

Also, I put this in /etc/modprobe.conf:
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd

alias snd-card-0 snd-sb16
options snd-sb16 isapnp=1

...and I typed "modprobe snd-card-0" as root.

What do I do now?

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[woddfellow2]

I apologise for double posting, but no one answered my question.

[bitrain]

Your card is loaded after that command, you should be able to hear sound after you set the volume higher in alsamixer or kmix or the gnome equivalent.

[otis_hobson]

Since the Soundcard is ISA, you probably will have to install the ALSA sound drivers for it. This is about the simplest thing i've ever done in linux, and it's got lots of docs for it.

Go to the ALSA (http://www.alsa-project.org) website and download the newest release of the Driver, the Lib, the Utils, and the Tools (links on the RHS of the page). Then use the "Soundcards List" on the LHS of the page to look up the manufacturer and chipset for your soundcard (Creative or SoundBlaster, and SB16. You will see a long list of instructions that are very easy to follow. They tell you exactly what commands to use, cut and paste if you want. Let us know how it all works.

BTW, you will have to be logged in as root or use the su command before you try to install the driver package. Have fun!