Hi,

trying to get sound working at the moment in Fedora 7. i had F6 before and that worked fine with sound.

Motherboard: AsRock ALiveNF6G-DVI
Graphics: ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256mb (another thing that wont work with radeon xorg set up)
Sound: X-Fi(but i know this dont work in Linux), Nvidia on board Sound (the one I'm trying to get working), i would take the X-fi out but i use it in windows and its a pain. there must be away just to get sound working for Linux only on the onboard sound card.

Kernel: 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7

if anyone has any ideas please say

play some song. volume a bit low.

type
$ alsamixer

and mute a parameter called "headphone jack sense" and increase all Master, PCM. If this does not work post:
$ lsmod (as root)
$ hwinfo --sound
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thanks for the fast reply out put as follwed:

type
$ alsamixer

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

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$ lsmod (as root)

Module Size Used by
fuse 45909 2
ipt_MASQUERADE 7745 1
iptable_nat 11461 1
nf_nat 22125 2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4 15049 3 iptable_nat
xt_state 6593 1
nf_conntrack 61001 5 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,xt_state
nfnetlink 10841 3 nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack
ipt_REJECT 8641 2
xt_tcpudp 7233 4
iptable_filter 6977 1
ip_tables 16389 2 iptable_nat,iptable_filter
x_tables 18757 6 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,xt_state,ipt_REJECT,xt_tcpudp,ip_tables
bridge 52441 0
autofs4 24645 2
hidp 26433 2
rfcomm 43481 0
l2cap 30145 10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth 57125 5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 159133 1
dm_mirror 24405 0
dm_multipath 21705 0
dm_mod 57485 2 dm_mirror,dm_multipath
video 21065 0
sbs 19173 0
i2c_ec 9281 1 sbs
i2c_core 24641 1 i2c_ec
button 12113 0
dock 13669 0
battery 14149 0
ac 9413 0
ipv6 276673 22
lp 15977 0
loop 19785 0
kvm_amd 19277 0
kvm 62885 1 kvm_amd
snd_mpu401 12393 0
snd_mpu401_uart 12225 1 snd_mpu401
snd_rawmidi 26561 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 11852 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 53189 4 snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
serio_raw 10821 0
soundcore 11553 1 snd
parport_pc 29797 1
k8temp 9537 0
k8_edac 17921 0
parport 38025 2 lp,parport_pc
hwmon 7365 1 k8temp
edac_mc 27665 1 k8_edac
sr_mod 20197 0
pcspkr 7105 0
cdrom 37217 1 sr_mod
forcedeth 48585 0
sg 37213 0
pata_amd 16717 0
ata_generic 12101 0
sata_nv 23365 3
libata 115417 3 pata_amd,ata_generic,sata_nv
sd_mod 23873 4
scsi_mod 137549 4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod
ext3 125385 1
jbd 59881 1 ext3
mbcache 12357 1 ext3
ehci_hcd 35405 0
ohci_hcd 23749 0
uhci_hcd 26833 0
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$ hwinfo --sound

-bash: hwinfo: command not found

tried it both root and normal user.

OK reboot (restart) the computer. Login and
$ su - (root)
Now, type
$ alsaconf

go and configure your sound card. (in general autodetection must be correct).

If the sound is still not working:
$ ls -l /dev/snd

Further type
$ alsamixer

and mute a parameter called "headphone jack sense" and increase all Master, PCM.

I think hwinfo comes default with all distros. Double check if you had used
$ su - (a minus after su for root login )

alsaconf command did not seem to work i tried the other commands that were similar and got these errors:

[root@mypc ~]# alsa
alsacard alsactl alsamixer alsaunmute
[root@mypc ~]# alsactl
alsactl: Specify command...
[root@mypc ~]# alsacard
Open error: No such device 0
[root@mypc ~]# alsaunmute
Alsa Unmute utility, Version 0.2, Copyright 2005 Red Hat, Inc.
This software may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU
public license.

Usage: alsaunmute card_number [-v] [-s volume]

card_number - number of unmuted card
[-v] - verbose mode
[-s volume] - set this volume level instead of the default (75%)
the volume is number from 0 to 100

[root@mypc ~]# alsamixer

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device


hwinfo:

[root@mypc ~]# hwinfo
-bash: hwinfo: command not found
[root@mypc ~]# locate hwinfo
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/16x16/apps/hwinfo.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/24x24/apps/hwinfo.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/32x32/apps/hwinfo.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/36x36/apps/hwinfo.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/48x48/apps/hwinfo.png
/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/128x128/apps/hwinfo.png
/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/apps/hwinfo.png
/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/22x22/apps/hwinfo.png
/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32/apps/hwinfo.png
/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/48x48/apps/hwinfo.png
/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/64x64/apps/hwinfo.png
/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/scalable/apps/hwinfo.svgz
/usr/share/icons/mono/scalable/apps/hwinfo.svgz

thanks.

Did you try
$ ls -l /dev/snd

OK, I do not have any fedora with me. But you can try to install "hwinfo and alsaconf" throught YUM and retry those commands.

Try as root
$ sndconfig
which I think is the command for config sound cards in Fedora

still having no luck

the $ ls -l /dev/snd command came out with the output:

[root@mypc ~]# ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
crw------- 1 user root 116, 3 2007-06-17 12:02 controlC1
crw------- 1 user root 14, 18 2007-06-17 12:02 midi1
crw------- 1 user root 116, 2 2007-06-17 12:02 midiC1D0

i could not seem to find those alsaconf and hwinfo on yum, but i did find that there were the following packages that were not installed:

alsa-driver (not installed)
alsa-kernel (not installed)

hwbrowser (not installed)

hwdata (installed)

is there any chance that fedora does not have any sound drivers installed at all? i do get a messages on booting into KDE on fedora about there being no sound devices.

thank again for all reply's.

This means Fedora did not detect any sound card... Do you mind trying out a live CD like KNOPPIX and test. Another idea would be to try another distro (like SUSE, Ubuntu). If possible file a bug with fedora.

try to follow my thread .. i have the same problem, but now i figure it out (i have my sound on)

Did you double-check that your sound isn't just muted by default? When I installed Fedora 7 on an Acer 3680, there was no sound at all. After some poking around, I realized I had to enable the surround device and unmuted it in the sound control panel. Apparently, it was muted by default.

Do you mean that you ran through the configuration and then it still didn't work , or do you mean that it didn't find the 'alsaconf' command at all? If it didn't find the 'alsaconf' program; try : \sbin\alsaconf

Another thing; have you checked the BIOS of your computer? It's often a setup there, which says whether it shall disable the on-board soundcard when a separate PCI-card is installed....

regards,
Ingar

I do have sound on my Fedora 7 installation, carried over from FC5. However, none of the GUI volume controls work, and there is no alsaconf on the machine. Likewise no hwdata (and many more). I can't adjust the volume from the desktop. If I start a root terminal, then I can run kmix from there and do all the things I used to do from the GUI in FC5.

I fear there are incomplete changes in Fedora 7. Mine can't find software that is there and working, unless given the full path. It's as if the PATH variable had ceased to exist. Maybe it changed name when hda etc became sda etc, and nobody told the rest of the software. (I had a merry game getting hard drives to work till I sussed where to use sda and where to use hda).

I do this stuff in my spare time, and the learning curve isn't getting any flatter as the distros move on