On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 14:28 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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".
So, the 2.6 kernel uses the modprobe.conf file, but the OSS drivers that
you were probably using with 2.4 are no longer included with 2.6, since
2.6 uses the more sophisticated ALSA architecture.
I didn't realise you had two sound cards. That changes matters slightly.
Check if you can use 'alsamixer -c 1' or 'alsamixer -c 0' to change the
volume. It sounds like it's loaded up the "wrong" driver as sound-card
0, which is what your apps will try to use by default. Anyway,
Alsamixer's title bar will tell you which card is which, so you'll at
least know where to expect sound from.
>
> 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.
Yep. So, sound-slot-0 and sount-slot-1 (or sound-card-{0,1}) refer to
the numbering that your sound cards have been given. Reversing the
numbers will reverse which sound card is your "default".
> I've told the operating system to ignore the Intel
> sound device, and have commented out the corresponding
> three lines in the "modprobe.conf".
Can you give us the contents of modprobe.conf? that would probably help
a lot.
> 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".
The package structure has changed subtly between RH9 and FC*. Yum is
intelligent enough to resolve the dependencies and leave you with a
working machine, but up2date isn't. I don't know how well the installer
works, I never used it -- mostly because I'm paranoid.
HTH,
James.
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