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I tried your suggestions yesterday. Here is what happened.<BR>
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On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 13:05 -0400, fedora-list-request@redhat.com wrote:<BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">I went back and reread your previous posts on your sound problems. Even</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">though I'm currently running FC3, I've seen an issue where my TV card,</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">which has a mixer, seems to interfere with the configuration of ALSA for</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">the motherboard sound devices. </FONT></TT><BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">-->How can I tell for certain that my TV card also has an intrusive mixer?<BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">-->I have looked in tvtime and bttv as well as asound.conf and I couldn't see anything that looked like an additonal mixer -- but then what do I know?<BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">The edits to asound.conf fixed this</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">problem for me. You stated that the your edits to asound.conf keep</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">reverting back to the old values. As a data point, it would be good to</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">know what the old and new values were/are. </FONT></TT><BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--># Generated by system-config-soundcard, do not edit by hand<BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">In my case the zeroes</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">changed to ones and I manually changed them back. The result of the</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">zeroes changing to ones was evident in alsamixer. The only control I</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">saw was the TV card's volume (IIRC). What do you see when you run</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">alsamixer?</FONT></TT><BR>
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I am not sure what you mean. I am going to try experimenting configuring asound.conf with all the suggestions I have received. Didn't seem to help before, but maybe now that I have added the lines to my modprobe.conf the changes will stick long enough to tell me something.<BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">I am running FC3 as opposed to FC4, so some things may have been</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">updated. Here are a couple of things to try:</FONT></TT><BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">1. Run /usr/bin/gst-register. This fixed a problem for me where all of</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">the mixer(s) disappeared.</FONT></TT><BR>
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Ran gst-register-8.0 once again. Changed nothing.<BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">2. Remove the TV Card, reboot and let kudzu correct modprobe.conf.</FONT></TT><BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">Save your modprobe.conf, if step 2 fixes anything, before reinstalling</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">your TV card.</FONT></TT><BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">-->asound.conf remained unchanged both before and after my ATI TV card was removed, and after it was returned. Kudzu was on.<BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">-->audacity could still not find the i/o.<BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">-->cd plays even when CD in mixer is off.<BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">These are the pertinent entries in my modprobe.conf (an Intel sound</FONT></TT><BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">options snd-card-0 index=0</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :</FONT></TT><BR>
<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0</FONT></TT><BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">-->Wrote similar lines in my modprobe.conf. There is some debate over whether it is necessary in FC4. I found that it prevented my mixer settings from being changed -- I think.<BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">--><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">getting the mixer issues under control may help.</FONT></TT><BR>
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<!--+GtkHTML:<DATA class="ClueFlow" key="orig" value="1">-->Distortion issues fixed. See earlier post to Alexander.<BR>
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Regards Bill
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