Fresh FC 3 installation sound card problems

[Impeteperry]

I just did a fresh fc 3 from CDs. No errors or warnings. After rebooting as instructed, I did the sound test on the displayied sound card. Sound great.
I logged is as "user" did another test on the sound card. Still great. I then logged out, changed the "session" to KDE and logged in again as "User". Immediatly I got background hash from the speakers. The test on the sound card had a large amount of background hash as well as the test sounds. Logged out again, changed the "session" back to Gnome. Logged in again as "user" but this time I still had the back ground noise.

The only thing I have done since is to upgrade the "udev" file. No help.

below is the output from "/sbin/lspci" file as someone suggested on one of the forums.

[root@localhost pete]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:03.0 Modem: PCTel Inc HSP MicroModem 56 (rev 02)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 04)
00:14.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22)
00:14.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:14.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10)
00:14.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10)
00:14.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT] (rev 15)
[root@localhost pete]#

I had "disabled" the "VIA" card in the "BIOS" before I installed Fedora.
The "Ensonig" card, a "Creative Sound Blaster" card is the one the sound tests were run on.

[taylor65]

the VIA soundchip has a known bug. If you want to use the VIA soundchip, you'll need to upgrade to kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 to get sound to work correctly. I don't have any info on the ensonig card.

[bob]

Pete, I'd also try going back into KDE and playing with all the Kmix settings. For some reason, Kmix overrides some Gnome settings.

[Impeteperry]

Thanks you guys. The problem with the VIA card is the reason i disabled it.
and as far as KMix, that did it. I turned off the IEC958 switch.

Now to get my audio CDs working.

[taylor65]

Be aware that audio CDs play through the analog cable out of the CD drive by default. Check to see if you have that cable. If not, you can use xmms to play audio CDs through ALSA, but you have to configure xmms to do that via the xmms menu (right click in xmms).

[Impeteperry]

Thanks, I do have the audio cables from the CD drives plugged into the sound card. This setup worked for RH 7, debiam "woodie" and FC 2. My XMMS works for ogg. My Real Player works fine.

I right clicked on XMMS tried setting directory to /media/cdrom and /dev/hdd no results. did a control>p where plug-ins are listed. The cdrom path was /mnt/cdrom but the path should be /media/cdrom I think, but did not make the change with out knowing what I am doing. Hope all this is some help.

[dmcfarland]

Thanks to Impeteperry for the solution. I turned off the IEC958 switch in kmix per Impeteroerry's instructions.

Originally Posted by Impeteperry

Thanks you guys. The problem with the VIA card is the reason i disabled it.
and as far as KMix, that did it. I turned off the IEC958 switch.

Now to get my audio CDs working.