Upgraded an ASUS 1681 from FC2, and sound stopped working. Tried
building a kernel, tried using the FC3 kernel, no go. No, the channels
are not muted, thought of that... and sound is on in the BIOS.

Working in FC1 and FC2, did a backup and clean install so that's not an
issue.

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"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Upgraded an ASUS 1681 from FC2, and sound stopped working. Tried
> building a kernel, tried using the FC3 kernel, no go. No, the channels
> are not muted, thought of that... and sound is on in the BIOS.
>
> Working in FC1 and FC2, did a backup and clean install so that's not an
> issue.

You're right, any FC3 kernel should have sound support compiled as a
module, so I doubt it's a kernel problem. Have you tried the
"system-config-soundcard" utility? Can you at least play the test sound?
Have you tried playing sound from different applications to see if it
is an application-dependent problem? Is it just one type of audio file
(e.g., mp3) or is it all audio files with which you're experiencing this
problem?

Jeff

Jeff Krimmel wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>> Upgraded an ASUS 1681 from FC2, and sound stopped working. Tried
>> building a kernel, tried using the FC3 kernel, no go. No, the channels
>> are not muted, thought of that... and sound is on in the BIOS.
>>
>> Working in FC1 and FC2, did a backup and clean install so that's not
>> an issue.
>
>
> You're right, any FC3 kernel should have sound support compiled as a
> module, so I doubt it's a kernel problem. Have you tried the
> "system-config-soundcard" utility? Can you at least play the test sound?
> Have you tried playing sound from different applications to see if it
> is an application-dependent problem? Is it just one type of audio file
> (e.g., mp3) or is it all audio files with which you're experiencing this
> problem?

Thanks for the thoughts, I *think* the utility was run successfully at
install time, but I've installed three other systems in two weeks, so I
can only say that it has checked config on other installs, and I'll
double-check in an hour or so.

To your other point, I've checked setting with both aumix and alsamixer,
used mpg123, mpg321, "play" from sox, whatever the desktop "CD player
is," audacity, xmms, and mplayer with the output directed to both oss
and alsa drivers, plus whatever it does without forcing, which works on
other systems. They all worked (I didn't try forcing mplayer output)
previously.

I've had minor problems with speaker selection with 2.4 vs. 2.6 on
multichannel cards (I have to formulate a sensible question on that),
but no "doesn't work at all" issues previously.

I'll report either later tonight or tomorrow morning.

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"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me

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Hi Bill. I just saw this post in another group. It may help you out.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.linux.redhat/msg/357bd6cfeb21bf51?as_umsgid=OcALd.103$GP.74@fe08.lg a

Jeff

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> Hi Bill. I just saw this post in another group. It may help you out.
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> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.linux.redhat/msg/357bd6cfeb21bf51?as_umsgid=OcALd.103$GP.74@fe08.lg a

If that does it I'll fall off my chair, several people wrote me warning
that things come up muted in FC3 and I have to unmute them. And that was
true on my desktop, pcm was muted.

I'll take a look, but from memory I don't recall having those sliders,
although It would be nice if it were that simple... Thanks much for the
pointer.

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Hi Bill,

I'm the person who wrote that other posting. If youy don't have those
sliders then open a terminal windows, enter the command "alsamixer" and
you should see a crude graphical volume control appear in the window.
Look for the two "sense" controls. Select each one in turn and then
press the M key to mute the control. When the control is muted you
should see an "mm" at the top of the slider. I forget how to select the
volume control you want to set, I think it was with the left/right arrow
keys.

Let us know if that helps.

Regards,

Richard Huelbig

P.S. I can't take credit for this discovery--I found it mentioned on the
Bugzilla web site.