FC5 - audio not working, what to try?

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Wed May 31 09:37:38 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:37 -0400, B Wooster wrote:
> On 5/29/06, B Wooster <bwooster47 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On upgrading to FC5, audio is not working.
> >
> > xine/mplayer provide no sound.
> >
> > 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!
> 
> Thanks for the tips!
> 
> Running the text-based "alsamixer" showed up a "Master" column (in
> addition to "Master Mono"), which was shown as muted! Toggling this
> fixed my audio problem for xine/aplay/etc.
> I had used kmix (KDE) before and it has a "Master Mono" switch, and
> nothing corresponding to what alsamixer shows.
> Also tried gnome-volume-control, it too has far fewer controls than
> the text-based alsamixer.
> 
> So, if anyone else is having basic audio problems, try running alsamixer!
> 

Happy to hear that it's working.
I'd suggest you file a bug report about it in bugzilla.redhat.com

Gilboa




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