FC6 No Audio

[Douglas Phillipson]

Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> 
> 
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 19:10 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> On Monday 20 November 2006 10:54, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>>>> After upgrading to FC6 from FC4 I have no audio.  I have a standard
>>>> sound blaster live card.  There seems to be no /dev/audio or /dev/sound
>>>> devices.  Output from alsamixer is:
>>>>
>>>> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
>>>>
>>>> RealPlayer plays viseo but with no sound.  My KMix Icon has a red 
>>>> "X" on
>>>> it, I think indicating it is inop.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>>>>
>>> Try running system-config-soundcard, checking that it is seeing your 
>>> card correctly.  When it asks if you can hear the sound, say 'yes' 
>>> even if you can't, or the driver will not be installed.  Once the 
>>> driver is installed, look at alsamixer in a terminal, using arrows 
>>> for navigation and M for mute/unmute.  You should be able to find the 
>>> culprit there.
>>>
>>> Several people found themselves in your situation, including me, and 
>>> the above worked for most of us.
>>>
>>> Anne
>> Let me mention something since we all went through this before, on my
>> machine the following problems still exist:
>> booting just ignores the lines in the modprobe.conf which relate to the
>> sound card. No module is mounted. The error message mentioned by the OP
>> occurs when the soundcard module is not loaded and not configured.
>> I can load the module rc.local by using a modprobe command but the
>> result is that the detection of the soundcard must be done after every
>> boot.
>>
>> I spent the whole morning trying to deal with this problem and failed
>> miserably. No boot errors occur related to the sound card so I ma
>> stumped.
>>
>> Needless to say there are no entries in /proc/asound/.
>>
>> Does anyone have a suggestion (maybe arguments to an install modprobe
>> command) that I could place in rc.local to properly load the sound
>> module so it will work?
>>
>> For completeness let me note that sound worked in FC3-FC5.
>> -- 
>> =======================================================================
>> Your conscience never stops you from doing anything. It just stops you
>> from enjoying it.
>> =======================================================================
>> Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
>>
> 
> Oops, missed the full path:
> 
> Ah, I now remember that in order for my FC6 system to boot, I had to 
> comment out the modprobe in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules.  This line 
> would hang the system on boot.  So perhaps my sound module isn't loading???
> 
> Doug P
> 

After searching for all the sound related kernel modules (*.ko), I did a 
"modprobe snd-i2c" and my /dev/dsp appeared and audio started working.

I guess I'll have to put this in a startup script, rc.local perhaps???

Doug P