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.....

...

[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.