Cant get sound card configured correctly

[Lopezadl2ian]

I cant seem to get sound to project for the speakers. I installed the driver for my sound card which I got straight off the creative website. I typed the command :
lspci
After typing that command I did see my sound card. I then selected my sound card from the PulseAudio volume control application. Nothing is working. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Note: Sound card is Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality.

[AdamW]

Can you maybe post a screenshot of how the PulseAudio volume control app looks?

[Lopezadl2ian]

Can you maybe post a screenshot of how the PulseAudio volume control app looks?

I uploaded photo in attachments but I don't see it upload.

[Lopezadl2ian]

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/2586/47204152.png

[Lopezadl2ian]

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1548/screenshotsoundpreferen.png

[bertland]

i have the same problem. n thts the same red x beside my speacker icon

[AdamW]

The X isn't a problem, it's actually a button, if you click on it, it mutes the card. So that does actually look about right.

I wonder if it's just a mixer issue. Can you run:

alsamixer

in a console and try playing with the volume settings?

If you get a display with just one channel, labelled 'PulseAudio' or something like that, do instead:

alsamixer -c0

what you should get is a display with quite a lot of channels, representing all the different channel settings available on the X-Fi.

[Lopezadl2ian]

Ok, I was able to run the following command:
alsamixer -c0

I am able to play sound like audio files using an audio player. The only problem that I am having now is when I want to watch a flash file on Youtube I don't get any sound projecting from my speakers.

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/794/alsmixerv1019.png

[Lopezadl2ian]

Audio is currently not working with Media Dvd player or any audio online.

[AdamW]

Try flipping (use the 'M' key) the 'Digit-IO' channel, maybe. Does that help?

Also test with something straightforward, like mplayer playing a .ogg file or something. Flash audio could be having problems somewhere else along the line.

[Lopezadl2ian]

everything works now except the flash audio. Something is wrong with my flash. I have trouble viewing certain flash files. There will be nothing in the window and is blank. :confused:

[Lopezadl2ian]

Try flipping (use the 'M' key) the 'Digit-IO' channel, maybe. Does that help?

Also test with something straightforward, like mplayer playing a .ogg file or something. Flash audio could be having problems somewhere else along the line.

What do you mean by (use the 'M' key)? where do I try to do this? I will try to play a .ogg file tonight. not to sure what that is or where to get it but I can research that tonight as well.

[AdamW]

In the alsamixer, press the right arrow key until the 'Digit-IO' channel is highlighted, then press the M key. You'll see the 'MM' at the bottom turn into 'OO' (like you see on the Wave and S/PDIF-o channels in the screenshot).

Some mixer channels aren't volume sliders at all but just switches - they can be on or off. This is one of those. alsamixer represents these as a channel which can only be 'muted' or 'unmuted'. It's a bit awkward, but that's what's going on. :)

[Lopezadl2ian]

In the alsamixer, press the right arrow key until the 'Digit-IO' channel is highlighted, then press the M key. You'll see the 'MM' at the bottom turn into 'OO' (like you see on the Wave and S/PDIF-o channels in the screenshot).

Some mixer channels aren't volume sliders at all but just switches - they can be on or off. This is one of those. alsamixer represents these as a channel which can only be 'muted' or 'unmuted'. It's a bit awkward, but that's what's going on. :)

I tried changing the channel and still no audio. Its weird because its just online audio.

[thelevellers]

I am having a similar problem, but I can't get any sound at all... It's a fresh install of F10, and everything else seems to be working well, it's 'just' the sound. (F9 sound was install and go for me, it was just everything else that broke initially...)

In 'system/preferences/hardware/sound/ I can set it to get sound from all the output options by selecting the OSS option (two of three seemingly identical options), but it doesn't appear to affect anything else..?!

Help would be greatly appreciated as I am trying hard to return to Linux after 6+ months in windows only... :S

Cheers, Rohan :)

[AdamW]

lopez: if everything else is now working and you only have trouble with Flash, that's something different, you should start a new thread.

thelevellers: what kind of sound card?

[thelevellers]

Actually, I forgot to update this yesterday, I found another thread that mentioned that pulseaudio was problematic, so I removed that, and now both ALSA and OSS options work in the sound menu, and outside of it.

It also helps that I used something other than Amarok 2 to test the sound, as that was a (I'm guessing different) part of the problem... Flash sound also works for me now. :)

Though talking of Amarok, I don't suppose you happen to know where I could find a 64 bit installer for 1.4 do you?! I prefer the old version, and have vague hope it may have better luck producing sound... I did try a recompile of a source rpm from a post on here but it didn't like it. Meh, I think I should do a proper search, and/or start/add to a different thread for that! :)

Cheers, Rohan

[AdamW]

Sorry, nope. I don't run KDE and I don't like amaroK...

amaroK 2 will be using Phonon, the new KDE sound layer, which could be the source of problems. I don't know how Phonon is set up by default in Fedora.

[thelevellers]

I don't use KDE either, but Amarok always used to work... Hey ho...