[olug] Getting sound in Fedora 8
T. J. Brumfield
enderandrew at gmail.com
Sun Nov 9 20:08:13 UTC 2008
The first step I'd recommend is a good recent LiveCD from distro of
choice with strong hardware detection. See if it works in the LiveCD,
and then backtrack from the LiveCD how they got audio working for your
setup.
-- T. J.
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:02 AM, Jay Woods <woodsjay at cox.net> wrote:
> My computer (called wyerie) has never played sound. As wyerie had a VIA
> motherboard, this never surprised me and I didn't much care. Yesterday I
> installed a usb sound card that I ran across in an add and was inexpensive.
> It failed to play a sound. After considerable fumbling around (as I have no
> experience with sound) I got to Soundcard Detection (on the menus) which
> calls itself Audio configuration.
>
> On the Sound test tab, the selected card was changed from VIA to Vendor:
> JMTek, LLC. - Model: SSS USB Headphone Set - Module: snd-usb-audio.
> The Sound test now works but Amarok doesn't play an old radio program which
> works on the F8 machine (woolerie) which I use as a Media Center. (All the
> packages loaded on woolerie have been loaded on wyerie but not the reverse.)
>
> In fiddling around I (on the Settings tab) changed to Audio Cards Order to
> JMTeck at Index 0. On the System tab the Report button (Generate sound log
> file /root/scsconfig.log) was pressed after looking at the log file and
> seeing that it still had VIA as the sound card. Now the log file has JMTek.
> No joy with Amarok. Reboot. No startup messages. Sound test with Audio
> configuration still works. No joy with Amarok.
>
> Does anyone have a clue on getting sound with Amarok?
>
> What seems to be relevent from the log file:
>
> ------- System Config Soundcard Log --------
> Sun Nov 9 02:10:09 CST 2008
>
> ------- lspci --------
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
> 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139
> C+ (rev 10)
> 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller
> (rev 80)
> 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller
> (rev 80)
> 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller
> (rev 80)
> 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
> 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
> 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/
> C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237
> A
> C97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
> 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200
> PRO]
> (rev 01)
> 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]
> (Second
> ary) (rev 01)
> ...
> ------- lsmod --------
> Module Size Used by
> appletalk 30241 2
> ipx 24553 2
> p8023 5697 1 ipx
> bridge 45273 0
> bnep 14657 2
> rfcomm 32721 6
> l2cap 21953 16 bnep,rfcomm
> bluetooth 47013 5 bnep,rfcomm,l2cap
> fuse 47837 1
> sunrpc 154785 3
> loop 16973 0
> dm_multipath 18505 0
> radeon 125921 2
> drm 65897 3 radeon
> ipv6 238405 22
> snd_usb_audio 75585 3
> snd_seq_dummy 6853 0
> snd_mpu401 11113 0
> ns558 8001 0
> parport_pc 26725 0
> parport 32173 1 parport_pc
> snd_seq_oss 29633 0
> snd_via82xx 25177 4
> snd_seq_midi_event 9921 1 snd_seq_oss
> gameport 14029 3 ns558,snd_via82xx
> snd_seq 44913 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
> via_ircc 20309 0
> floppy 52229 0
> snd_pcm_oss 37441 0
> irda 95737 1 via_ircc
> snd_ac97_codec 92389 1 snd_via82xx
> pcspkr 6593 0
> snd_mixer_oss 16705 3 snd_pcm_oss
> ac97_bus 5825 1 snd_ac97_codec
> crc_ccitt 6081 1 irda
> via_rhine 23625 0
> snd_mpu401_uart 10305 2 snd_mpu401,snd_via82xx
> snd_pcm 61509 5
> snd_usb_audio,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_c
> odec
> i2c_viapro 10965 0
> snd_timer 21065 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> i2c_core 20949 1 i2c_viapro
> snd_page_alloc 11337 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
> snd_usb_lib 17345 1 snd_usb_audio
> snd_rawmidi 21441 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_usb_lib
> snd_seq_device 9933 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
> snd_hwdep 10309 1 snd_usb_audio
> snd 46437 23
> snd_usb_audio,snd_mpu401,snd_seq_oss,snd_via82x
> x,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mixer_oss,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_pcm,snd_t
> imer,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep
> soundcore 9633 3 snd
> 8139cp 21313 0
> 8139too 24385 0
> mii 8385 3 via_rhine,8139cp,8139too
> sr_mod 17541 0
> cdrom 33249 1 sr_mod
> sg 31605 0
> dm_snapshot 18661 0
> dm_zero 5825 0
> dm_mirror 19521 0
> dm_log 12229 1 dm_mirror
> dm_mod 48265 10
> dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror,dm_l
> og
> pata_acpi 8001 0
> pata_via 11461 2
> ata_generic 8773 0
> libata 132065 3 pata_acpi,pata_via,ata_generic
> sd_mod 26329 3
> scsi_mod 123917 4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod
> ext3 110281 2
> jbd 41045 1 ext3
> mbcache 10309 1 ext3
> uhci_hcd 22993 0
> ohci_hcd 22853 0
> ehci_hcd 32845 0
>
> ------- /etc/modprobe.conf --------
> alias eth0 8139too
> alias eth1 via-rhine
> options snd cards_limit=8
> alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio
> options snd-usb-audio index=0
> alias snd-card-1 snd-via82xx
> options snd-via82xx index=1
> alias snd-card-2 snd-mpu401
> options snd-mpu401 index=2
> ------- /etc/asound.conf --------
> #Generated by system-config-soundcard
> #If you edit this file, don't run system-config-soundcard,
> #all your changes here could be lost.
> #SWCONF
> #DEV 0
> defaults.pcm.card 0
> defaults.pcm.device 0
> defaults.ctl.card 0
>
> ------- aplay -l --------
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: Set [SSS USB Headphone Set], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: V8235 [VIA 8235], device 0: VIA 8235 [VIA 8235]
> Subdevices: 3/4
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
> Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
> Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
> card 1: V8235 [VIA 8235], device 1: VIA 8235 [VIA 8235]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>
> ...
>
>
> ------- /proc/asound/version --------
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16.
>
> ------- rpm -q alsa-lib --------
> alsa-lib-1.0.16-3.fc8
>
> ------- rpm -q alsa-utils --------
> alsa-utils-1.0.16-3.fc8
>
> ------- /proc/asound/modules --------
> 0 snd_usb_audio
> 1 snd_via82xx
> 2 snd_mpu401
>
> ------- /proc/asound/pcm --------
> 00-00: USB Audio : USB Audio : playback 1 : capture 1
> 01-01: VIA 8235 : VIA 8235 : playback 1 : capture 1
> 01-00: VIA 8235 : VIA 8235 : playback 4 : capture 1
>
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