FC4 - no sound with Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW

[Alexander Apprich]

Hi Norman,

Norman Gaywood wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:10:52PM +1000, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:03:13AM +0200, Schlueri wrote:
>>
>>>Am Mittwoch, den 15.06.2005, 14:05 +1000 schrieb Norman Gaywood:
>>>
>>>>I have a Dell 610 laptop and I can't get the sound to work with
>>>>system-config-soundcard. 
>>
>>>I've had exactly the same problem on brand new Dell Inspirion 9300. Open
>>>gnome-mixer or alsamixer an enable "external amp" solve my problem.
>>>Before this only the headphone jack working. :-)
>>
>>Ha! Brillant. That works for me as well. Thanks very much.
> 
> 
> I spoke too soon. The test sound works with system-config-soundcard
> 
> However, any other attempt to get sound seems to fail:
> 
> $ play info.wav
> sox: Unable to reset OSS driver.  Possibly accessing an invalid file/device
> 
> :-(
> 

I might be wrong, but could you pls check the permissions on /dev/dsp
also, Fedora uses also per default. Try another audio player maybe xmms
to play info.wav...

Hth

Alex