No sound on laptop after FC1->FC3 upgrade
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Nov 29 08:09:27 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 00:47 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 09:19 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> > Summary:
> >
> > IBM Thinkpad A22p with Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear
> > SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] chip. Worked fine under FC1. After
> > upgrading to FC3, I get no sound output at all from RealPlayer 8.0-1, or
> > anything else.
>
> Adding to my original post... When I run System Settings -> Soundcard
> Detection and click on the [ Play test sound ] bar, I can hear the test
> sound, but _very_ faintly.
>
This is good. click the yes button on hearing the sound, then go to
your mixer (alsamixer or aumix) and set the volumes. It then should
work. Did for me.
> When I run 'setup' from an Xterm command prompt and select 'Sound card
> configuration', it runs sndconfig which promptly reports:
>
> --| ERROR: No Sound Modules found |--
>
> You don't seem to be running a kernel with modular sound
> enabled. (soundcore.o was not found in the module search path).
> To use sndconfig, you must be running a kernel with modular
> sound, such as the kernel shipped with Red Hat Linux or a 2.2
> or greater kernel.
>
> This is not surprising because soundcore.o is now named soundcore.ko. I
> note that sndconfig says it's a tool for legacy sound cards. As such,
> should it be replaced by a more up-to-date tool in 'setup'?
>
Don't run that one. the other sets it up properly. The gui is the
correct tool to use.
> -- Doc
> Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
> Fedora Core 3 kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 on a P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
> "Perfection is the enemy of good enough."
> -- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov
>
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