Fedora Core 3 & Dell 4700

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 03:25:25PM -0500, mylar wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 14:18, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:10:27PM -0500, mylar wrote:
> > > Hi, I rarely ask for help and usually figure things out myself but I am
> > > faced with an issue here involving a recently purchased desktop.
> > > 
> > > My Dad recently bought a brand new Dell 4700 Desktop machine with MS
> > > Windows XP pre-installed. On his request I added a IDE hard drive into
> > > the machine onto which I installed Fedora Core 3 and made it into a dual
> > > boot machine.
> > > 
> > > Everything works fine except for the Creative Soundblaster sound card.
> > > According to Dell's hardware list for the machine  and according to the
> > > Windows XP devices manager the card is a "Creative "Soundblaster Live
> > > 24-bit" PCI sound card. Also referencing the model number stamped on the
> > > bottom of the card itself it is a "Soundblaster Live 24-Bit" 
> > > 
> > > However when I ran "lspci" under Linux it reports the card as a
> > > "Creative Soundblaster Audigy LS". So I downloaded and built the
> > > appropriate ALSA modules with Audigy LS support inserted them into  the
> > > kernel, ran "lsmod" to make sure things were in place and I got
> > > bupkis... no audio, no sound, nothing...nada...zilch!!!
> > 
> > Sorry to ask the obvious, but we have to check these things.  Did you
> > bring up a mixer (say, xmixer) and verify the levels were up?  By
> > default, they are all the way down.
> > 
> 
> I was unable to bring up a mixer. If I remember correctly I got an error
> stating something to the effect " no mixer (device) available". Might I
> have overloooked something?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mylar

No, I think I overlooked something.  You can use alsamixer, a
Curses-based TUI or amixer, its command-line brother.  There are other
ALSA-specific tools like aplay and arecord.  xmixer relies on the old
/dev/* devices that were provided by the OSS sound stuff.  If you want
to use your old OSS tools, add these lines to your /etc/modprobe.conf:

# These are for ALSA OSS emulation.
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

Just between you and me, I'm not nuts about this rocky transition from
OSS to ALSA.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
"...And His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God,
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