Sound card problem, alsamixer up'ed

[harrylmh]

I've installed Fedora Core 4. But there's no sound. I went to Desktop > System Settings (i think) > Sound Card Detection.

It says:
Vendor: Intel
Model: Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller
Module: snd-intel8x0

But when I pressed "Play test sound" there was no sound...Click ok, then it said something about detected failed and no audio for this system.

I've already tried alsamixer and dragged all the bars to the max and still no sound.
What should I do? Please help me.

[harrylmh]

Anybody at all?

[shams]

read this this link .

[pparks1]

run alsamixer, go all the way to end. Make sure that extrernal amplifier is not set to Mute (MM). If so, hit M and that should put it at 00.

Give that a shot.

If that doesn't work, try running alsaconf.

[dwflo]

Originally Posted by pparks1

run alsamixer, go all the way to end. Make sure that extrernal amplifier is not set to Mute (MM). If so, hit M and that should put it at 00.

Give that a shot.

If that doesn't work, try running alsaconf.

When I run alsamixer in the terminal I get this:
[root@bgp01385775bgs dwflo]# alsamixer

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

Think this might cause event sounds to quit working?
Been looking for solution, even posted a thread here http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...=sound+problem
Unable to generat any helpful replies.

Dave

[harrylmh]

Originally Posted by pparks1

run alsamixer, go all the way to end. Make sure that extrernal amplifier is not set to Mute (MM). If so, hit M and that should put it at 00.

Give that a shot.

If that doesn't work, try running alsaconf.

That was it! thank you so much pparks! Thanks!

[sunny_mm]

first installed fc4 and my soundcard in fc4 no sound ,but i play mp3,,xmms is play mp3 ok ,,there appear sound..

[denis_arnaud]

Originally Posted by dwflo

When I run alsamixer in the terminal I get this:
[root@bgp01385775bgs dwflo]# alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory
Dave

I guess it may be because the sound core modules have not been loaded when the computer has booted. Normally, that's done following the script in /etc/sysconfig/rc.sysinit (or something like that, I cannot check as I'm in an Internet cafe, but you can search for "sound" in /etc:
cd /etc; grep "sound" */*). Basically, the snd and soundcore modules should be loaded:
modprobe snd
modprobe soundcore
Then, try again alsamixer

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However, I think the best is to use the Fedora Sound Card Detection (Desktop/System Preferences/Soundcard Detection, or in a terminal, type as root the command: system-config-soundcard), and reply "Yes" to the question "Have you heard the test sound?", which should trigger the load of sound modules (I guess).

Denis

[dwflo]

Originally Posted by denis_arnaud

I guess it may be because the sound core modules have not been loaded when the computer has booted. Normally, that's done following the script in /etc/sysconfig/rc.sysinit (or something like that, I cannot check as I'm in an Internet cafe, but you can search for "sound" in /etc:
cd /etc; grep "sound" */*). Basically, the snd and soundcore modules should be loaded:
modprobe snd
modprobe soundcore
Then, try again alsamixer

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However, I think the best is to use the Fedora Sound Card Detection (Desktop/System Preferences/Soundcard Detection, or in a terminal, type as root the command: system-config-soundcard), and reply "Yes" to the question "Have you heard the test sound?", which should trigger the load of sound modules (I guess).

Denis

For the sake of redundency and double posting, I would like to direct you to my thread http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...ad.php?t=73163
Would be practicle to keep things together.

Dave

[imdeemvp]

I wonder if this is BUG in the alsamixer....too many users including me had similiar problem.

[dwflo]

Originally Posted by imdeemvp

I wonder if this is BUG in the alsamixer....too many users including me had similiar problem.

I downloaded alsa, alsa-lib from the development repository, hoping that an update might resolve the problem, but no luck.
If I attempt to uninstall any one part of the sound system, be it alsa, esound, oss or gstreamer, I might as well re-install Fedora. The dependencies are so massive, it would remove 75% of the system.

Dave

[denis_arnaud]

Originally Posted by harrylmh

That was it! thank you so much pparks! Thanks!

That was also the same problem for me. The External Amplifier was the only switch I didn't try, as I thought it had nothing to do with the internal sound card...

I guess that the switch-on of the that External Amplifier switch could be set-up by default in the next release of the Anaconda installer (and/or the alsa RPM)?

Thanks a lot for your input

Denis