sound problem

Thornton thornton at cierragroup.com
Fri Sep 3 13:59:26 UTC 2004


Yes it did upgrade my kernel.  I will try using an old one.

alsamixer doesnt show anything muted.  

thanks

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 04:06, Beej-in-GA wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thornton" <thornton at cierragroup.com>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 6:36 AM
> Subject: Re: sound problem
> 
> 
> > I just tried gstreamer-properties and that didn't get sound working
> > either.  I know it isnt hardware as I used a knoppix bootup disk and
> > sound works fine in that.  I tried the different options there and I may
> > try custom and see what I can do with that.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 03:20, Andrea Giuliano wrote:
> > > Thornton wrote:
> > >
> > > >I am having a problem with my sound card.  It just doesn't play
> anything
> > > >anymore in any app.  Basically its dead.  I tried to detect sound card
> > > >and it located it, clicked
> > > >test sound and nothing plays.  It used to work fine.  I haven't
> > > >installed anything new or anything like that.  Just the up2date
> > > >updates.  Could any of them effected my sound.  I am using a
> > > >asus mb w/ a nvidia sound card.
> > > >
> > > >Any suggestions would be great.
> > > >
> > > >Thank you
> > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >- Thornton                       thornton at cierragroup.com -
> > > >- Cierra Group                            http://www.cierragroup.com -
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > Have you tried "gstreamer-properties" from the command line? Some months
> > > ago I solved a similar problem hacking with this application, but I'm
> > > note sure it's the right solution for you. At least you could try.
> > >
> > > Also, are you sure you have no problem with the external "hardware"? I
> > > mean, loud speakers, jacks, wires and such? If the s.c. is damaged, I
> > > guess some odd message would be issued by some sound related
> > > application, but you say that doesn't happen...
> > >
> > > I know, it's not too much, sorry...
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Andrea Giuliano, Ph. D.
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> 
> Hi Thornton,
> When you used Up2Date, did it update the kernel and what kernel are/were you
> running.  Have you tried booting into a previous kernel to see if the SC
> works?  I just finished getting mine working.  It isn't the same card, but I
> wonder if the problem could be similar.  If you are running kernel 2.6 vice
> kernel 2.4, then you have ALSA support built into the kernel.  Perhaps you
> could check in a terminal window (as root) "alsamixer" and see if anything
> is muted.  That turned out to be what was wrong with my card.  If that is
> the problem, then it is a relatively easy fix.  HTH.
> Later,
> BJ
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- Thornton  	                 	    thornton at cierragroup.com -
- Cierra Group                            http://www.cierragroup.com -
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