FC6 No Audio

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 15:24 -0800, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> 
> Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 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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> >> Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
> >>
> > 
> > Oops, missed the full path:
> > 
> > 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/50-udev.rules.  This line 
> > would hang the system on boot.  So perhaps my sound module isn't loading???
> > 
> > Doug P
> > 
> 
> After searching for all the sound related kernel modules (*.ko), I did a 
> "modprobe snd-i2c" and my /dev/dsp appeared and audio started working.
> 
> I guess I'll have to put this in a startup script, rc.local perhaps???
> 
> Doug P
> 
In my experience that does  not help in the sense that if you put the
modpeobe <snd-module> in rc.local you have to run the detection of the
sound module after every boot.
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