No Sound from FC4 - Clue Needed
akonstam at trinity.edu
akonstam at trinity.edu
Tue Dec 13 14:31:16 UTC 2005
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 07:45:52PM -0500, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
>
> Background - My girlfriend's RH9 machine (not on a network) got seriously
> wacky, not getting through the boot sequence before rebooting, and then
> not booting at all. Rather than "waste" time with proper trouble shooting,
> I elected to replace.
>
> Problem: I'm not able to get FC4 fresh install to access the sound card
> hardware. The hardware works, because Knoppix 3.9 finds the sound card and
> works. Under fedora, I'm not able to play the cd drive (audio cd) nor get
> the sound config gui to successfully configure the sound card.
>
> The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 series, 865PE Motherboard (this
> from the manual) with a P-42.4 GHz processor and 256MB ram. Sound is
> supposedly an integrated Realtech ALC655 AC '97 CODEC chip.
>
> Clues and/or actuall solutions happily accepted with thanks.
>
I would run alsamixer. Increase the gain (volume) on all of the relevant
channels (CD for example). Change all the muted channels (MM at the
bottom) to un-muted (00) by typing m.
If that does not work we can debug further.
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
telephone: (210)-999-7484
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