FC5 sound broken

[kloy1334]

I have posted another topic about this but there was no reply.
I am trying to fix my sound problem as it is not working.
First, I reinstalled the alsa-lib
Second, I installed VIA's AC97 82xx drivers (source rpm)
Third, I ran my modinfo soundcore and it came up fine.
And then finally, I look ed at my modprobe.conf and it shows this:

alias eth0 via-rhine
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via
##del alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
##del options snd-card-0 index=0
##del options snd-via82xx index=0
##del remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx
alias sound-slot-0 viaudiocombo

I did not manually change anything in the modprobe.conf file, so is there anything I need to do to make my sound work again?

Thank you.

[kloy1334]

Upon looking at /sbin/modinfo snd-via82xx, my shell returns with:
modinfo: could not find module snd-via82xx

[red_dungeon]

did kudzu detected your soundcard ?

do you unmuted your mixer ?

added the "external amplifier" checkbox ?

why do you reinstalled alsa ?

[kloy1334]

I had to reinstall 'cause I stupidly installed realtek drivers due to the low quality sound that VIA soundcards have on LInux.
But that was before I found out that they had low-quality sound problems that were fixable.

I can't load any mixer programs to unmute, not even alsamix.

[red_dungeon]

Originally Posted by kloy1334

I had to reinstall 'cause I stupidly installed realtek drivers due to the low quality sound that VIA soundcards have on LInux.
But that was before I found out that they had low-quality sound problems that were fixable.
I can't load any mixer programs to unmute, not even alsamix.

wh0000t ?

do you have problems out of the box or not ?

[kloy1334]

Here's more information to help you guys out if you wanted to know a bit more.

------- System Config Soundcard --------
Tue Mar 21 16:27:26 PST 2006

------- lspci --------
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

------- lsmod --------
Module Size Used by
ppdev 8645 0
autofs4 19013 1
hidp 15937 2
l2cap 23617 5 hidp
bluetooth 44069 2 hidp,l2cap
sunrpc 136573 1
video 14917 0
button 6609 0
battery 9285 0
ac 4933 0
ipv6 225569 14
usblp 13377 0
lp 12297 0
parport_pc 25445 1
parport 34313 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
floppy 57733 0
nvram 8393 0
ehci_hcd 29005 0
uhci_hcd 28881 0
via_rhine 22597 0
mii 5313 1 via_rhine
i2c_viapro 8277 0
i2c_core 20673 1 i2c_viapro
dm_snapshot 16237 0
dm_zero 2241 0
dm_mirror 19985 0
dm_mod 50521 6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ext3 116809 2
jbd 53077 1 ext3
sata_via 8517 0
libata 54225 1 sata_via
sd_mod 16577 0
scsi_mod 125289 2 libata,sd_mod

------- /etc/modprobe.conf --------
alias eth0 via-rhine
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via
##del alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
##del options snd-card-0 index=0
##del options snd-via82xx index=0
##del remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx
alias sound-slot-0 viaudiocombo

------- /etc/asound.conf --------
#Generated by system-config-soundcard, do not edit by hand
#SWCONF
#DEV 0
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.ctl.card 0

------- aplay -l --------
aplay: device_list:218: no soundcards found...

------- amixer --------


------- /proc/asound/version --------


------- rpm -q alsa-lib --------
alsa-lib-1.0.11-3.rc2.2

------- rpm -q alsa-utils --------
alsa-utils-1.0.11-3.rc2

------- /proc/asound/modules --------


------- /proc/asound/pcm --------


------- system-config-soundcard --------

Wrong card index 0...
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:217: GtkWarning: gtk_label_set_label: assertion `str != NULL' failed
self.module_label2 = gtk.Label(_(self.module))
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:273: DeprecationWarning: use gtk.ComboBox
self.primarySubDeviceOptionMenu = gtk.OptionMenu()
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:308: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.timeout_add is deprecated, use gobject.timeout_add instead
self.timer = gtk.timeout_add (100, self.checkStatus, self)
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:548: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.TRUE is deprecated, use True instead
gtk.main()
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1313_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
aplay: main:533: audio open error: No such device

[kloy1334]

Nah, I didn't have problems OOTB, only the low-quality sound. By that, I mean, like, when you hear a song and the vocalist sounds like he/she's right on the microphone and so it's a bit muffled (if that's the right word).

Now I'm trying to put in alsa-drivers if that would help. I just need some help compiling the kernel.
On http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/releas...fc5/#sn-Kernel, I am stuck on step 8.7 as I don't know which source dir to point alsa-drivers' ./configure to.

Thanks again.

[red_dungeon]

ok. but OOTB it should be possible, that the mixer is running, nor ?

Try to mute your MIC if on...
Try to set the Amplifiers correctly...

I think this must have to something with the mixer... and not with the driver OOTB

[kloy1334]

How would I get into the mixer program? Is it alsamix? 'cause that wouldn't load.
Should I reinstall FC5 altogether?

[red_dungeon]

No... the Gnome-Mixer-Applet should do the job. You don't need the ALSA Mixer App

[kloy1334]

It says:
No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.

[red_dungeon]

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...49#post1188149
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showpos...9&postcount=12

hrm...

try to look in your BIOS for such a setting...