FC6 No Audio

Douglas Phillipson phillipd at oem.doe.gov
Mon Nov 20 23:07:31 UTC 2006



Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 19:10 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Monday 20 November 2006 10:54, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>>> After upgrading to FC6 from FC4 I have no audio.  I have a standard
>>> sound blaster live card.  There seems to be no /dev/audio or /dev/sound
>>> devices.  Output from alsamixer is:
>>>
>>> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
>>>
>>> RealPlayer plays viseo but with no sound.  My KMix Icon has a red "X" on
>>> it, I think indicating it is inop.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>>>
>> Try running system-config-soundcard, checking that it is seeing your card 
>> correctly.  When it asks if you can hear the sound, say 'yes' even if you 
>> can't, or the driver will not be installed.  Once the driver is installed, 
>> look at alsamixer in a terminal, using arrows for navigation and M for 
>> mute/unmute.  You should be able to find the culprit there.
>>
>> Several people found themselves in your situation, including me, and the above 
>> worked for most of us.
>>
>> Anne
> Let me mention something since we all went through this before, on my
> machine the following problems still exist:
> booting just ignores the lines in the modprobe.conf which relate to the
> sound card. No module is mounted. The error message mentioned by the OP
> occurs when the soundcard module is not loaded and not configured.
> I can load the module rc.local by using a modprobe command but the
> result is that the detection of the soundcard must be done after every
> boot.
> 
> I spent the whole morning trying to deal with this problem and failed
> miserably. No boot errors occur related to the sound card so I ma
> stumped.
> 
> Needless to say there are no entries in /proc/asound/.
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion (maybe arguments to an install modprobe
> command) that I could place in rc.local to properly load the sound
> module so it will work?
> 
> For completeness let me note that sound worked in FC3-FC5.
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> 

Ah, I now remember that in order for my FC6 system to boot, I had to 
comment out the modprobe in /etc/udev/rules.d.  This line would hang the 
system on boot.  So perhaps my sound module isn't loading???

Doug P




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