sound card and Gnome

[Janina Sajka]

What happens when you run sndconfig? Or, did you move to alsa per chance? What are the references to sound in your /etc/modules.conf? Are the sound drivers showing when you do lsmod? What does aumix -q give?

Brian W writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently started with Linux - Fedora Core 1, and with help from Bill, I 
> am up and running with Speakup. After the installation, I ran sndconfig 
> and had sound working, but now it has stopped working.
> 
> In the interim I have installed Pine, updated to the latest version of 
> Brltty, and poked around in Gnome - this last with sighted help that is no 
> longer available. I also ran the yum update utility. I have not
> configured Brltty yet.
> 
> I think the problem is with a change I made in Gnome, but am too new to 
> Linux to be sure of much of anything.)
> 
> We enabled the sound server in the 
> preferences. (I think that is what they called it at least.) I was trying 
> to find information on configuring gnopernicus, and in 
> frustration at finding only reference materials, but no step by step 
> information, I was just poking around to see what I could break or make 
> work by accident.
> 
> Well the only thing I have accomplished is to break the sound in the 
> console, where it used to work.
> 
> I have disabled the graphical boot to see if there are any errors, but 
> there are not. I intend to change the default boot so it does not boot up 
> into Gnome, but I do not know if that will help.
> 
> 
> I use  Speakup with a DEC Talk Express.
> 
> Any suggestions would be welcome.
> (Well, most any suggestions...)
> I should add that while I am new to Linux, I am not new to computers. 
> Unfortunately perhaps, the way I learn is by trial and error. once I break 
> it, I struggle until I fix it, and usually learn something in the process.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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