Still no luck getting sound out of Fedora Core 2. running XMMS had no effect. I ran "system-config- soundcard" via the "Run Command", and opted for the terminal. This function identifies the Audgy sound blaster, and also the built in Intel sound device which RedHat 9.0 had ignored. This produced the following message twice, upon asking it to play the test sound on the Audgy sound card:
"amixer: unknown playback setup 'on' .." I noticed a note at the bottom of "/etc/modules.conf" which said that, for 2.6, you need to change "/etc/modprobe.conf" as well, while at the top of "/etc/modprobe.conf" was a note that, for 2.4, you need to change "/etc/modules.conf". The "modules.conf" has aliases of "sound-slot-0" for "snd-audigy", and pre and post install commands to load/save the settings in "/etc/.aumixrc". The "modprobe.conf", on the other hand, gave an alias of "snd-card-0" to "snd-emu10k1", then provided install and remove commands, referring to the alias "sound-slot- 0" of the "modules.conf" file, and containing "modprobe" commands to install and remove the module, along with the "aumix-minimal" commands to save and restore the mixer settings. I experimented with these files by changing all aliases to "sound-slot-0", and replacing "snd-emu10k1" with "snd-audigy" and stuff like that, rebooting each time, to no effect. The "/dev/mixer" and "/dev/dsp" files can be accessed and the applications believe that they are making sound, but no sound is produced. I've told the operating system to ignore the Intel sound device, and have commented out the corresponding three lines in the "modprobe.conf". The problem I have getting the mouse to behave when rebooting RedHat 9.0 (Linux 2.4) has been ignored under this title so I'll make that the subject of a separate enquiry. James Gregory wrote: Now *that's* a fun upgrade. Can you tell us how you did it? did you just put the CD in the drive and use the installer, or did you try using yum or up2date or something? Well, I tried just to "rpm -U" the "gtk 2 devel" from the Fedora discs, but found there were other packages which were dependent upon the earlier version. I initailly tried uninstalling these working back up a tree structure, untill it became too involved. I then decided to boot the Fedora discs to upgrade the package that way, however it only allowed a full upgrade, so I let it do the full upgrade. Oh, and it hasn't been "fun". Thanks, Greg Wood. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
