no alsa audio

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 15:28:38 -0400, Mike Payst wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote
> 
> >> <>With FC2, you should not have "service alsasound" because that 
> >> script is
> >> not included. So, where does it come from?
> >>
> >> rpm --query --all '*alsa*'
> >
> There  are no alsa related rpms.

?? ALSA is included in FC2, so you should have alsa-lib and alsa-utils at
least.

> >What do you have in /etc/modprobe.conf?
> >  
> >
> alias eth0 3c59x
> alias eth1 forcedeth
> # kill IPV6 - 02Jul2004MWP
> alias net-pf-10 off
> alias usb-controller usb-uhci
> alias usb-controller1 usb-ohci
> alias usb-controller2 ehci-hcd
>  
> # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
> # --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.3 ---
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
> # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

The alsactl lines are missing:

install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/a
lsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/mo
dprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0


> >This indicates that your alsamixer settings are insufficient. 
> >  
> >
> Once the audio starts, the volume level is OK so I don't understand what 
> settings are insufficient.

ALSA starts with various audio channels set to volume zero and "mute".
system-config-soundcard pushes up the volume level for the test sound.
And the user should run alsamixer, un-mute the channels, and the
shutdown/reboot process would save the mixer settings. modprobe.conf would
restore them at boot time upon loading the kernel drivers.