FC3: "No soundcards detected"

[Gustavo Seabra]

Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 01:13 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
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>>M.Hockings wrote:
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>>>Gustavo Seabra wrote:
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>>>>Thanks Mike,
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>>>>I tried the Hardware Browser, and put the results down here. 
>>>>Interestingly, there are 3 mentions of (apparently) the same device, 
>>>>all 3 very similar, but none really is my soundcard! Also, the same 
>>>>device is cited as a soundcard and as unknown!  I think I will post 
>>>>this at the developer's list. Thanks.
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>>>Interesting, I also see two devices in the unknown category (didn't 
>>>look there before :-)  Both are labeled as Onboard PnP Audio, one is 
>>>CSC0101 with driver ns558 and the other is CSC0103 with driver 
>>>unknown.  Since the Crystal audio stuff also has Midi and joystick 
>>>capabilities I will presume that is what these two entries are for?
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>>>In any case if you make some progress in this I would be most 
>>>interested.  Sound may not be significant but it is nice.
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>>>Mike
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>>Mike,
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>>At least in my case, the soudcard detector couldn't find my card 
>>beacause it's ISA. Anyway, since the system shows something there, it 
>>seemed to be working somehow. So, I opened the sound mixer (KMix, in 
>>KDE) and put all the volumes to the maximum and turned my speaker volume 
>>up: there was it! I could hear the sounds!  What seemed to be the 
>>problem is that for some obscure reason Fedora sets the volume too low, 
>>and then we just don't hear it. (I tried Knoppix and the sounds came out 
>>just right from the start.)
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>>Someone ought to fix this in a future release...
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>Sound has been being installed that way since at least the 7.X days.  I
>don't know about earlier since I never used sound on the earlier
>versions.
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>I agree it should be fixed, but how?  When users have a variety of
>choice for mixers, and the mixer volumes are what are turned down.
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>I would also prefer to have the volumes be turned clear down rather than
>turned all the way up and maybe damage speakers or amps (and my ears).
>So the way it is would likely be better than the possible alternatives.
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>>Hope that helps you too,
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>>Gustavo.
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Jeff,

At least in my case, the mixer volumes weren't all turned down. 
Actually, they were all in the mid-setting, which is reasonable. 
However, for my soundcard, this turns out to be extremely low, almost mute!

I'm not suggestiong to change the settings. Fedora used ALSA driver for 
my system; when I tried with Knoppix all worked well, but knoppix uses 
the OSS driver instead. So I wonder if this isn't a problem with the 
ALSA driver (not Fedora itself).

Gustavo.

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