my setup was:
AC '97 onboard sound card.
SoundBlaster Live!

Both was correctly installed at first, but only the ac-card worked. I plugged my speakers into the ac-spearker-out, and got sound, but i also got the sound from the sb live test, when running the autodetect sound card program.
Nothing seemed to work, nothing was muted, but with AC'97 i was only able to get one program playing a sound at a time, which made programs hang while waiting for the soundcard to be avalible. Xmms worked if I told it to output to /dev/dsp1, but i wanted it to be working 100%.

I then tried to disable the onboard AC'97 soundcard in the BIOS, and fedora asked me at startup if i wanted to remove the configuration for the card. Told yes, and now everything works nicely. The only problem is that ALSA seems to be very difficult to configure since I'm using surround-speakers, and there is no vol. control for both front and rear speakers
I can now get more programs playing sounds at the same time.

but now it works!

did you ever get this fixed?

im also having a sound problem, the sound worked when it first ran that test sound druing installation but now i get no sound at all, i have a cm8738 card, in xmms if i adjust the alas mixer settings to use (hw 0,2) i get real crackly sound for my mp3s and ogg's. I have no idea what is wrong, it works fine in red hat 8 (what im using now)

I'm trying to figure out my own sound problems over here, all help will be appreciated...

I just installed FC2 today, and my intel Crop 82801db doesn't wanna work for me. So, I figured I'd try an old Soundblaster live I had kicking around. Nothing their either. I don't hear the test sound, nor any other sounds (like from XMMS or games n stuff). Here's my output from /sbin/lspci:

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)

I am quite boggled as to why this is happening, as everything seems to be set up fine, and it worked this morning under RH9. And for those who are gluttons for more info, here's my /etc/modprobe.conf:

# Note: for use under 2.4, changes must also be made to modules.conf!
alias eth0 e100
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install sound-slot-0 && { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
remove sound-slot-0 { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove sound-slot-0
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1

It really doesn't matter to me which soundcard gets working, as long as one of them starts working (and soon)! I checked all the sliders I could find (volume control on panel, opening the volume control through the volume control on the panel, and the volume on my speakers. Nothing seems to be muted as far as I can see. Any and all help is much appreciated, thank you.

open a terminal and open alsamixer and make sure nothing is muted and that all the volume is turned up. I never got mine working i ended up putting in a sound baster live 16bit card. What kind of card do you have?

First I want to greet everyone on this forum.

I'm not totally new to Linux, but I'm stil a novice user.

Today I installed Fedora Core 2. Amazing, it's a very nice OS, but my soundcard didn't work

I've got a SiS, dunno the type....

Thanks to some other forum-users I found out that K-Mix could fix it, strange because I'm using Gnome.

But I started K-Mix and when I turned off IEC958 Capture Monitor in the advanced section my sound was back in bussiness

So I hope others with the problem can fix it on the same way as I did.

Greetings

BTW: Excuse me for my bad English

I am also having trouble with a Sound Blaster Live! card... No sound at all. Not from the test, nothing. It detects it just fine but I cant hear any sound. I dunno any of the technical settings tho. I did go into the volume control and turn up the volume. In the volume control thing I have 2 tabs. The first one is some Cirrus Logic thing. The second one is my SB Live! card.

Hello I'm new to the group and I would appreciate some help getting my soundcard to work. The O/S I'm running is Fedora Core 2 using Gnome.

Model [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X
Module snd-emu10k1

Here's my /sbin/lspci
02:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X
02:01.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] Input device controller

cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 e100
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd

I tried sliding the volume control from - to + but it drops back down to the -
When I shut down my system the sound portion is the only service that doesn't report as working.
From what I can tell the O/S is definitely detecting the sound card but I'm stumped on what else is required to make this work. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards
Paul D

I installed FC2 on my computer, and then my girlfriend's computer. Mine was a fresh install, hers was an upgrade (if you want to call it that) from FC1.
I finally got the sound working on my system using the onboard sound, which kinda sucks because i really miss using my SBLive.

However, my girlfriend's computer ONLY has onboard. At first, I thought there was no sound at all, but then I realized that it's just incredibly low Now, I've done all the usual "did you check" things... yes the cable's in the right port, aumix is all cranked up, the KDE audio control panel is all cranked up, but when i try to play any audio whatsoever (cd's, mp3's, games) it's almost completely inaudible.

here's the stuff...

modprobe.conf
Any clues whatsoever? I'm glad I've been growing my hair long, because now I have something to pull out of my head in frustration!
And, I'm kinda on a time schedule, since she needs to get sound working in time for Quakecon

I noticed that:

alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install sound-slot-0 && { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
remove sound-slot-0 { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove sound-slot-0

in one line the card is called snd-card-0 and in another line it is called sound-slot-0



think that has anything to do with it?

This FC2 sound problems is so weird! Here's my story.

FC2 was installed on a system with a Creative Labs Audio PCI 64D sound card and everything configured and worked fine. Isn’t FC2 wonderful , or so I thought. I moved that card to a different system and installed a 16-bit ISA Creative Labs Sound Blaster card (model CT4170), which is about as standard a sound card as you can get. After about 6 wasted hours, I got it to work by starting a KDE session and here’s the story.

From the beginning, booted into FC2 and got no sound with the 16-bit SB card. Read everything I could find in this forum about the FC2 Sound Problems. Consulted alsa-project.org and found the driver snd-sb16. Ran “modprobe snd-sb16" successfully, but got no sound. Modified modprobe.conf to include “alias snd-card-0 snd-sb16" and rebooted, but got no sound. Played with the GNOME mixer and the alsamixer, but got no sound.

Booted into RHL9 and got sound, but under the alsa snd-sb driver. Booted back into FC2 and tried “modprobe snd-sb” unsuccessfully (no big surprise there). Left for the day, thinking “What a waste!”.

With a fresh mind, started a KDE session, adjusted the mixer and GOT SOUND!!! Logged off and logged in with a GNOME session and GOT SOUND!!! Switched back and forth between GNOME and KDE just to confirm that the sound still worked, and yes it did!!!

In a final test, rebooted the system and logged into a GNOME session and got NO SOUND. Logged into a KDE session and GOT SOUND!!! And it still worked in a GNOME session!!!

Is the moral to this story “Use KDE sessions”? Sound in linux is so frustrating.

That's very interesting. I don't have KDE installed but I will install it later tonight and we'll see how it goes.

i just installed a fresh install of FC2 on my main machine, with onboard AC97 sound, sound works fine at first, but when another app tries to play a sound, it errors out. (example: say i'm playing mp3's with xmms and talking on gaim, when someone messages me on gaim the Ding causes a "check that your soundcard isn't in use" error) now this is strange to me, because i've mainly used windows on my main machine, and with windows many apps can play sound, sometimes it gets annoying, but like with music and chatting its almost neccisary. anywho, any advice would be appreciated

i found the easiest way to solve the problem

i reinstalled FC1 yeah, i know, i'm lazy

Mooshi, your solution helped me verry much. I had the same problem, and the same soundcard as gnu noob: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 11). Thank you for the support guys!

Mooshi,

I think I'm in love. Your directions just ended several days of frustration. It's no fun running an illicit OS (my supervisor banned Linux cuz the techies won't support it) if I can't listen to music.