FC5 - audio not working, what to try?

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Tue May 30 10:29:51 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 17:47 -0400, B Wooster wrote:
> On FC3, audio was working fine on my system.
> 
> On upgrading to FC5, audio is not working.
> 
> xine/mplayer provide no sound.
> Using the system-config-soundcard utility, I can see it says it found:
> Vendor: Silicon
> Model: Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller
> Module: snd-intel8x.0
> But when I click on the play button on that window, I get no sound.
> It says look at /root/scsound.log, but not sure what to look it -
> nothing jumps out.
> 
> Any ideas on what I should try next?
> 
> Surprisingly - I also have Leadtex WinFast TV Capture card in my
> system, and using "tvtime", I can watch TV - and the audio on that
> works!
> 

Open up a console and fire up alsamixer. (yum install -y alsa-utils)
Are the main channels muted?

Gilboa




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