Problem/Solution with Discovery of Creative Labs/Ensonic PCI 1371 Card.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:59:10 -0700, James  C. Bevier wrote:

> > On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:32:08 -0700, James  C. Bevier wrote:
> >
> > > I have been following all the threads on getting sound to work.  I
> > > also have the Ensonic 1371 PCI sound card.  I have changed the
> > > name in modprobe.conf to snd-ens1371.  The sound icon said it was
> > > muted, so I set the volume to 70% and I still have not sound.  It is as
> > > if the speakers are disconnected.  I tried the Preferences->sounds->
> > > Sound Events and tried playing a few.  Nothing, zippo.  No errors,
> > > no sound.  I also have turned off kudzu as someone else suggested.
> > > Still nothing.  What else to try?
> >
> > Try "alsamixer". If that doesn't lead to something, I'd need more
> > details.
> >
> 
> That also was no help.  No sound from Sound Events test.  I did a
> cat junkfile >/dev/dsp and cat junkfile >/dev/audio and I get noise,
> so something is working.  I am on 2.6.3-1.97smp.  System is Tyan
> Tiger MP with dual 1.2 gig processors.  I am at the latest updates
> to FC1-T1 as of this morning.  Any more suggestions?

That indicates that ALSA's OSS layer works (those are loaded via an
include-file in /etc/modprobe.conf), but it doesn't tell anything about
whether the native ALSA driver (snd_ens1371) works. Make sure, the
snd_ens1371 kernel modules is loaded actually (look at output of "lsmod").
Verify whether the mixer channels in alsamixer are not set to "mute" (MM)
anymore. Try something else than those Sound Events tests, because they
depend on the EsounD sound server. I'm not informed about any esd specific
issues in FC 1.90. Can you play an .ogg file with Rhythmbox or XMMS?

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