[PLUG] Sound FC3

[Len Icks]

I had this exact same set up and had the same problem, I ended up
pulling the emu card before I found the fix, but it turned out that the
mixer (I use Kmix) had set my SB card to use digital out as the default,
I changed that to analog and the problem was fixed.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Terry Griffin
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 7:03 AM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Sound FC3

On Thursday 10 March 2005 9:27 pm, Dirk Ouellette wrote:
> Since installing Fedora Core 3, I've had no sound, yet this same box
> uses the Creative EMU 0404 and the Creative SB Live soundcards to
great
> effect when I boot into the Win XP hdd on the same box. I'm using the
> ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/3/i386 release as I'm planning on some music
> editing.I've run alsaconf and Alsa sees the onboard AC 97 sound, which
I
> don't care about, and it says that I've got the alsamixer set for the
SB
> Live soundcard, but NO sound.
> Can someone guide me to the noise?
> Thanks
>

This is a known problem in FC3 with a large number (but not all) sound
chips. I can happen in FC2 as well if you upgrade to a 2.6.10 kernel.

The basic problem (at least for my chips) is that certain mixer settings
are not getting set to sensible defaults. And even if you finally get
them set correctly yourself, an actl save/restore cycle (as when
rebooting)
doesn't restore them correctly.

You can usually get it to work just by finding that mystery mixer
setting
that's getting in the way. For the chip on my laptop it's the mixer's
DAC
switch. On my HTPC it's the input capture selector.

Terry
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