Question: configuring a sound card

[Stephen Clower]

Hi Roy,
  No, I'm really not sure what's going on. Getting sound to run by default was a real pain with Fedora Core 2. Try going to http://www.linuxquestions.org and check their forum index for help.


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On 6/2/2004 at 10:42 PM Roy Nickelson wrote:

>hi,
>i apear to be using the alsa sound drivers, I am us9ing fedora.  However 
>I can't get any sound to play. This is confusing because I had no 
>trouble on redhat 9.  all I had to do is type
>play /usr/share/sounds/phone.wav and i would hear the sound.
>Now I don't hear anything. I can tell my speakers aren't muted because I 
>can hear the hum when I turn them up. when I mute them the hum goes 
>away.  Do you have any sugestions?
>roy
>On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Stephen 
>Clower wrote:
>
>> hi John,
>>   What distribution are you using? If you simply get no sound and Linux
>doesn't complain about wave device errors, then it's likely that your
>sound card is muted. If you're using the ALSA sound drivers, you can do
>something like:
>> amixer set Master 100 unmute
>> amixer set PCM 25 unmute
>> to unmute your master and PCM channels. These are the settings I use on
>my laptop, so you'll probably have to experiment to find which volume
>works best for you. When you're finished, issue this command:
>> alsactl store
>> Now, any time the ALSA drivers are loaded into memory, your settings
>will be used. If you're not using ALSA, make sure the card has been found.
>Type
>> lsmod
>> and examine its output. If you see something about your sound card in
>the list of loaded modules, then you should be good to go. Note: ALSA
>sound modules start with the prefix snd, whereas the older OSS/Free
>drivers do not. Thus, my laptop's sound module for ALSA is snd-maestro3,
>and the old OSS/Free driver name is just maestro3. Knowing this should
>also help you to determine which type of module is loaded into memory.
>> HTH
>> Steve
>> 
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