Sound problems FC4, KDE

[fishter]

Hi All,

I've having a problem getting sound out of my system.

It worked fine with FC3, but following the upgrade no sound has worked. On all logins I get the "artsmessage" error message telling me that "device: default can't be opened for playback (Invalid argument)". Even root has this problem.

I have disabled the on-board sound on my m/board as I want to use my Audigy2 soundcard. I have tried playing a wav and an mp3 with "mplayer -ao alsa" and oss" and neither produce any sound. From the alsa attempt I get the following:

alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
ALSA lib conf.c:1578:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:51:23:No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:2823:(snd_config_hook_load) /etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:2686:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:1959:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM default definition (id: default, value: cards.pcm.default)
alsa-init: playback open error: Invalid argument
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.

The OSS attempt appears to play the mp3, but no sound from the speakers.

Using the souncard-detection utility I don't hear any sound when I press the Play button.
I have checked kmix and alsamixer and both have all the relevant mixers turned up and all unmuted. External amplifier is on.

Does anyone have any ideas about what is going on?

my lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
parport_pc             34221  1
lp                     17089  0
parport                50381  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                34633  2
sunrpc                200489  1
pcmcia                 35729  0
yenta_socket           24777  0
rsrc_nonstatic         14657  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            60749  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
iptable_nat            28593  0
ip_conntrack           52101  1 iptable_nat
iptable_mangle          3521  0
iptable_filter          3777  0
ip_tables              22849  3 iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter
xfs                   617481  1
exportfs               10049  1 xfs
dm_mod                 69825  0
video                  19657  0
button                  8417  0
battery                11465  0
ac                      6089  0
md5                     5057  1
ipv6                  316513  36
joydev                 12097  0
ohci1394               44961  0
ieee1394              384121  1 ohci1394
uhci_hcd               40929  0
ehci_hcd               45517  0
cx8800                 40269  0
v4l1_compat            13893  1 cx8800
v4l2_common             8129  1 cx8800
cx88_dvb                9669  0
cx8802                 14405  1 cx88_dvb
mt352                   8389  1 cx88_dvb
cx88xx                 62305  3 cx8800,cx88_dvb,cx8802
i2c_algo_bit           10441  1 cx88xx
ir_common               9029  1 cx88xx
btcx_risc               6089  3 cx8800,cx8802,cx88xx
tveeprom               16601  1 cx88xx
videodev               12993  2 cx8800,cx88xx
or51132                11333  1 cx88_dvb
video_buf_dvb           8389  1 cx88_dvb
dvb_core              109181  1 video_buf_dvb
video_buf              29765  5 cx8800,cx88_dvb,cx8802,cx88xx,video_buf_dvb
cx22702                 7493  1 cx88_dvb
dvb_pll                 5701  3 cx88_dvb,or51132,cx22702
shpchp                103913  0
emu10k1_gp              4673  0
gameport               21961  2 emu10k1_gp
i2c_viapro              9817  0
i2c_core               27329  7 mt352,cx88xx,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,or51132,cx22702,i2c_viapro
snd_emu10k1           148709  1
snd_rawmidi            37089  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec         98437  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_dummy           4677  0
snd_seq_oss            45477  0
snd_seq_midi_event     11713  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                79769  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         11217  5 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            63089  0
snd_mixer_oss          20673  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm               122957  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              38217  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         12105  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            6209  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep              12385  1 snd_emu10k1
snd                    69697  13 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore              13409  1 snd
via_rhine              32841  0
mii                     6721  1 via_rhine
r8169                  36941  0
floppy                 78673  0
ext3                  153937  1
jbd                    94833  1 ext3
sata_via               10053  3
libata                 56009  1 sata_via
sd_mod                 22721  4
scsi_mod              178201  2 libata,sd_mod

and my modprobe.conf

alias eth0 r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.1.2
alias eth1 via-rhine
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via
#install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx && /usr/sbin/al
sactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
#options snd-card-0 index=0
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /usr/sbin/als
actl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
#remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/mo
dprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
alias char-major-81 cx88-dvb
#remove cx88_blackbird /sbin/modprobe -r cx88_blackbird
install cx88_dvb /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install cx88_dvb
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias char-major-13-67 evdev
install dvb_core /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install dvb_core
options dvb_core dvb_shutdown_timeout=0