FC3: "No soundcards detected"

[Gustavo Seabra]

M.Hockings wrote:

> Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>
>> Mike,
>>
>> 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.)
>>
>> Someone ought to fix this in a future release...
>>
>> Hope that helps you too,
>>
>> Gustavo.
>>
>
> Hi Gustavo,
>
> In my case I have the the volume control set to max.
>
> When I do the soundcard detection it just says that none are found, 
> there is no inquiry to play a sound or if a sound was played.
>
> And for me too Knoppix works fine, as does Win98....
>
> Mike
>
Mike,

I think this problem with the soundcard detection is known. (I believe I 
saw this issue in bugzilla.) That's because it doesn't work for ISA 
devices, as I think your board (and mine) must be. However, Linux still 
finds it, and cofigures it "correctly". In Knoppix, the soundcard 
configuration tool has the same problem: it does't detect the ISA card.

Anyway, since Linux does find the board, and the drivers, this isn't 
such a problem; and I'm sure there's someone working on that now. 
However, I believe one shouldn't have to max out every setting just to 
hear a sound on the computer! A good setting should give you audible 
sounds at a low setting, sou that you can have some control over the 
volume, don't you think? That's where I believe the ALSA driver has a 
problem. The OSS diver used by Knoppix works fine.

Gustavo.

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