[PLUG] Sound FC3

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Terry Griffin wrote:

>On Thursday 10 March 2005 9:27 pm, Dirk Ouellette wrote:
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>>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
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>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.
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>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.
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>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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I've got a similar problem -- Gentoo has no problem sounding off but FC3 
is silent on the same box. Maybe if I bring Gentoo up, write down the 
mixer settings, then install them in FC3, the sound will work.