Sound Problem

[david walcroft]

Don R Maxwell wrote:
> Dj Rose wrote:
> 
>> I just installed Fedora Core 2 the other day and since then my sound 
>> will not work.  It worked fine with Fedora Core 1, I'm not sure if 
>> something changed or what the deal was, but it was about the same time 
>> that it quit that I installed FC2.  I am running a machine with a 
>> SoundBlaster Audigy and now using kernel v 2.6.6-1.435.  If anyone has 
>> any ideas, please let me know.
> 
> 
> You will want to search the message archives of this list.  ALSA 1.0.3, 
> as shipped with FC2, lacks the drivers for Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 
> and its close cousins.
> 
> I had the very same problem as you describe with my SounBlaster.
> 
> I had to d/l alsa 1.0.5 (esp the lib!) and recompile and install.  Sound 
> is fine after that.
> 

Don,
     Thanks for the info about missing drivers in Alsa 1.0.3,I've 
searched ever since FC2s release and never came across it.In installing 
do you rpm -e <old>Alsa then <new> and does it include the kernel 
modules being updated.

      Thanks david